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Fastest way of navigating FCP timeline
Is command+/command- truely the best way of zooming the timeline?
I’d prefer something that isn’t two handed. How do the rest of you cope with this?
I could do with some tips on getting around the timeline more efficiently
Alan
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option + and opion – are a little more targetted, as that combo works specifically on the timeline as opposed to the active window … why not just reassign those hotkeys to something easier?
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“Is command+/command- truely the best way of zooming the timeline? I’d prefer something that isn’t two handed”
You can easily do command +/- with one had just hold down the right command key with your thumb and hit +/- with your fingers
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I am a mouse person and I do not like using Longcuts (usually cslled shortcuts) sine they usually require two hands (taking one hand off the mouse), looking down at the keyboard, finding all three keys for the longcut and then looking back up to make sure it happened. Pf course the keyboardf junkies out there will disagree and say they hate the mouse. When I went to school, girls took typing to be a secretary and the guys took shop. 🙂
I use the button list and make toolbars as needed. I want to find a way to make the mouse scroll wheel do the zoom in and out like Sony Vegas. It was my favorite tool in Vegas sine I use it a lot in each session. A shame the scroll wheel is just sitting there to unly scroll tracks vertically.
Gaey
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[GaryAlan] “A shame the scroll wheel is just sitting there to unly scroll tracks vertically.”
and horizontally if you have the functionality in your mouse..
I use shift-z alot to snap back the timeline to full view,, I also use the keyboard more than the mouse,, but try this one,, use the zoom tool short cut (z), then use the zoom tool with the mouse (lasso the chunk you want to look at, hit (a) to get back your selection tool, make your edit/adjustment/… then hit shift-z (side by side so only one hand needed) to snap back to full timeline view 😉
or if you only want to zoom out a step or 2 hit z,z to open the zoom out tool.
this should help keep one hand on the mouse,, and one on the keyboard for every one who went to school back in the ’30’s ‘grunt grunt’
th[GaryAlan] “When I went to school, girls took typing to be a secretary and the guys took shop. :-)”
Colin McQuillan
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[GaryAlan] ” (usually cslled shortcuts) sine they usually require two hands (taking one hand off the mouse), looking down at the keyboard, finding all three keys for the longcut and then looking back up to make sure it happened.”
You should have been paying closer attention to those girls, just watch one now, (no, I mean the way thay work the keyboard) they don’t look at the key board. After a year of typing 101 you memorize the keyboard. After continued sessions on fcp you will also memorize it. The only reason programmers gave us GUI’s that look like decks with jog, shuttle, forward, reverse ect is because 10 -15 years ago all us old timers who were migrating to computers and had never used them before had to relate somehow to the computer. Keyboards are way faster than a mouse once you memorize them so you no longer look at it.
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30″s is way out of range. more like the 80’s when computers fina;lly came around and men started typing with all 10 fingers. I’s rather watch the monitor instead of small keys. how can three keystrokes be a shortcut over one mouse click on a tool bar? How can anyone remember the longcuts for 10 or twenty different apps when they are all different? I use maybe twenty apps in pro work. FCP, Livetpe, DVD SP, Shake, Motion, Sountrack, AR, PS, Maya, C4D….. etc
what mouse allows horiz scroll wheel? i have the mac wireless mighty and it lacks a lot of resetting functions. for some reason mac thinks people only want to launch apps with mouse buttons.
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i will race you with one had tied behind my back using only a mouse and win the contest. 🙂 to each their own. the keyboard junkies will always have to reach for the mouse at some point juyst as we have to type on the keys evry so often. besides, how do hold your coffee ith both hands on the keys?
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jest jk’ing 😉
[GaryAlan] “what mouse allows horiz scroll wheel? i have the mac wireless mighty and it lacks a lot of resetting functions. for some reason mac thinks people only want to launch apps with mouse buttons.”
maybe your mouse insn’t configured properlly?? my mighty mouse allows me to scroll in all directions,, even diagonally when the window permits..I know what you mean about it being sometimes overwhelming with all the different aps and all the different shortcut but.. the apps I use often,, I remember what they are,, and they do increase the speed of my workflow considerably,, not at first while I learn them,, but once memorized,, it makes a huge difference
Colin McQuillan
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a straw of course,, or when lots needed,, i use one of those beer helmets with coffee mugs instead of beer cans…
Colin McQuillan
Vancouver BC -
can you help me with the mouse scroll assign? i see no way in the system prefs to reassign the scroll action to horiz. i would love to have the scroll wheel on this mouse zoom in and out on the FCP timeline when i have focus on the FCP timeine. It should zoom in and out around the timeline cursor position and center in the view. It now only scrolls tracks vertically. I added two buttons on the toolbar for just zooming out, but the mouse scroll would be the easiest way. I don’t mind going to the scrpll bars pm the side to move through tracks vert.
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