In CS 9, I want to increase the area of the screen that displays the timeline, by dragging up the border between the "tools/canvas/properties" above, and the timeline below. Making each track taller (or shorter) is no help -- the problem is that the timeline is confined to about the lower 20 per cent of my screen, and I need to drag it up, so I can see how the tracks are situated against each other. I hover the cursor over the lines that separate the upper and lower sections, and I get the double-arrow, but I cannot drag it up. Sometimes the border can be twitched up just a tiny bit, then it pops back down. We use Windows 7 Enterprise, with dual 1280x1024 monitors, if that matters. I tried using only 1 monitor, and updating both .NET framework and Microsoft Visual C++ -- no help. This is not a problem in CS 8. It doesn't matter whether I detach and move the canvas, or leave it in the main interface -- same issue. Any ideas, please?
Posted 3 years ago
Rick, thanks for the quick and interesting reply! The issue in your video is definitely similar, except that your immovable border was above the canvas, while mine is below it.
I tried the registry edit as you showed, and results were curious. I found that the height value initially was blank, so I changed it to 400 and restarted Camtasia. I found that after using Regedit, the the timeline was 2 to 3 times taller -- but still stuck, as the border still cannot be moved during a session. So it's weird, and presumably not "as designed", but still it is more useful than before (especially since I usually detach and move the canvas anyway). By the way, when I looked in Regedit again I saw that the TimelineHeight value had reset itself from 400 to 412.8. I could probably re-edit the registry and make the timeline even taller if needed, except that each change requires restarting Camtasia. So I hope this is something that can be addressed in a bugfix, but meanwhile you have helped a lot! Thanks again.
I tried the registry edit as you showed, and results were curious. I found that the height value initially was blank, so I changed it to 400 and restarted Camtasia. I found that after using Regedit, the the timeline was 2 to 3 times taller -- but still stuck, as the border still cannot be moved during a session. So it's weird, and presumably not "as designed", but still it is more useful than before (especially since I usually detach and move the canvas anyway). By the way, when I looked in Regedit again I saw that the TimelineHeight value had reset itself from 400 to 412.8. I could probably re-edit the registry and make the timeline even taller if needed, except that each change requires restarting Camtasia. So I hope this is something that can be addressed in a bugfix, but meanwhile you have helped a lot! Thanks again.
kayakman, Champion
kayakman, Champion
Briar Patray Parmer
Thank you for taking the time to make and post a video on correcting this issue!! It certainly helped me out!
Briar