Scene Follow Action / Select Next mystery solved

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rnb0
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Scene Follow Action / Select Next mystery solved

Post by rnb0 » Fri Jan 02, 2026 11:51 pm

I couldn't figure out why the next scene wasn't getting selected (and subsequently launched based on follow action setup) in just some of my sets. Drove me crazy. I have the preferences and the scene follow stuff all setup just right. Works in some sets. Doesn't in others. I build one of the working ones toward looking like one of the non-working ones and all of a sudden it would stop working but there was no logical reason for it. But the working one had my diy metronome (I don't like the sounds or the time signature limitations of the built in metronome.) It turns out that in building toward the non-working set, I would sometime delete the diy metronome track. Seems that even if you are using SCENE follow actions, you have to have some (warped?) clips somewhere in one of the scene's tracks in order for Select Next to work right.

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Re: Scene Follow Action / Select Next mystery solved

Post by S4racen » Sat Jan 03, 2026 11:42 am

YEs, thats correct, Follow Actions only work with Warped clips.

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Re: Scene Follow Action / Select Next mystery solved

Post by madlab » Sat Jan 03, 2026 10:08 pm

Abletondrummer made a free device for that.
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