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Your favorite Avid MC keyboard
Hi,
I have to work on a windows based Avid MC v.3 that has a Bella keyboard. Hate it (the keyboard). Whta is your favorite keyboard?
I come from the luxury of Apple keyboards and love my keys to respond and my keyboard to be a tool and not a Dinky Toy.
Appreciate your comments,
Patrice
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6 Replies
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I use the official Avid keyboard from Sejin at work and love it. I found one on ebay for at home, but after 2 weeks my son dropped a drink on it, and well i am back to the piece of *!@* Microsoft keyboard that I had before the Avid keyboard.
Mark
Mark Harvey
Senior Editor
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I have a Bella for Xpress Pro (have not upgraded my keyboard to the MC…doesn’t cause me any problems) and the Avid-supplied keyboard for use with my systems. I typically use the Bella when I’m editing on location with my laptop.
Don’t have any issues with either one…what is it about the Bella that is unacceptable to you?
Regards,
Joe Womble
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I love the Logic Keyboard company. It looks like they buy the Apple keyboards and swap out the keys, then resell. They’ve got some black and silver keyboards available for windozers.
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Are you asking about any keyboard, or keyboards with Avid keys? I’m working on a PC at the moment, but I am using the current Apple keyboard (the aluminum one that comes with the latest iMacs). I know my settings well enough that I don’t need any icons on the keys. I love the light touch- if I have to use one of the crappy Macally’s in another bay I feel like I have to mash all of the keys all of the time.
The only annoying thing is that the apple key is the start key in windows and every time I miss Option and get the start menu instead I have to wait a few seconds to get focus back to Media Composer. I found a keymap program that is part of a utility bundle you can download from Microsoft. It is supposed for Server 2003 but works in XP pro. I remapped the left Windows button to Control, so it now works the same as Command on the Mac.
Ian
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Hi,
thank you for the feedback.
What I don’t like about the Bella is both the key placement that results from their adding a jog wheel that I don’t have a use for, and the general feel of a very light piece of pastic.
The Avids we have run on HP computers and the keyboard the reseller fits them with is that silver and grey keyboard and to me it feels almost as bad as the Bella.
Because there are several of us working with those Avids, some less experienced than others, I can not customize a keyboard with no key that reflects that customization. This leaves me with very few options apparently…
In the end I may resort to buying my own keyboard for when I work with those Avids… Any one using the “DasKeyboard”? it looks right and you can get a blind version of it (no inscriptions).
Patrice
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I use a Bella – the old, simple one, version 2.0 I think it’s called. (The new huge one with the wheel looks awful.) The main advantage being that it’ll work on PCs and Macs with no software, so I use it on Final Cut too. I have my FCP settings mapped to match my Avid ones, plug in my Avid keyboard, and try to pretend I’m not on Final Cut.
HP xw8000, MC v. 2.5, Mojo SDI, FX1100
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