I would liike a Solo Select key and a Mute Select key. While I am holding down the Solo key, any track I click on, anywhere along the timeline, gets solo turned on (or off, if it is already on). While holding down the Mute key, the same thing happens for mute. Option-Solo or Option-Mute turns off all solos or mutes.
Right now if I want to solo four tracks, I have to click four itty bitty speaker icons. If I then want to solo two other tracks I have to click those four little speakers again and click the other two itsy speakers 3 times because I missed and hit mute on one of them.
With my method, I would hold down a key and click four tracks wherever my pointer happens to be, let go of the key and continue with what I was doing. When I want to solo those other two tracks, hit Option-Solo to clear those four, then Solo-Select the other tracks. When I'm done hit Option-Solo to hear all tracks again and go on my merry way.
If while holding the solo key I click somewhere on a video track, the monitor will move to that track. If I click and scrub different tracks while holding the key, the monitor will follow me around so I only see the clip that the pointer is on. This would be something like how scrubbing worked in the Precision mode in the FCPX demo. That would be nice, but mostly this is about moving the monitor to the video track I want without having to click on the monitor, or Option-V# (sometimes a 3-key twister combo for me).
Ian Johnson
ABC Family
Media Composer 5.3
Mac