Scene-coloring

[atom_b]

The coloring and naming logic of clips always occured somehow awkward to me. Anyway, today I thought, if - in the session view - all is about distinguishing different scenes, because they contain certain clips, it wouldn't be necessary to distinguish clips but the scenes with these certain clip sets in it.

So why not coloring the scenes, like we are coloring clips. Much more intuitive than looking for the right names or numbers, wishing there should be the right clips in it. Colors are somehow easy to *remember* and able to reflect sets content associated with them, that's why the clips are colored, aren't they.

I don't see scene coloring as a default, like with clips, rather as an option like naming scenes. Would be great to see this in a future release.

[dss]

i think i agree with you...

i find it frustrating to go back after the fact and recolor my scenes and clips.

live seems to operate in a premeditative way regarding scene colors, and clip colors. this assumes you know what you are going to do, and are prepared to set the preferred color for your clip, or section in advance.

i don't work this way, i tend to move forward, and the clips collect either in random colors, or at whatever color i last set the prefs to use.

[the random rainbow of colors is something i never liked even in protools]

i want scene 1-4 to be grey [all the same song]
scene 5-8 to be dark grey [the next song]

but there's one clip in scene 7 that needs to jump out as a warning:
so i color it red.

bare minimum, the ability to group select and choose a color for all the clips would sort me out quite nicely.

it's the one at a time select and color method that starts to become tedious after a long session of compiling, arranging and organizing a live set.

dss