Avid to Final Cut Keyboard setup??

[Jared Picune]

Yes, you can customize your keyboard. In fact I know someone who as an avid keyboard that they use with FCP. They customized there keys in FCP to match the avid keyboard. It can be done if you really want to do it.

Jared
Idea Spring Editing, Inc.
Denver Final Cut Pro UG

[Jessie]

any idea how to go about doing that?

[Jared Picune]

Tools menu > keyboard layout > customize. Its that easy and it in the manual!!!

But if you want to know what the layout of the avid keyboard, I have no clue.

Jared
Idea Spring Editing, Inc.
Denver Final Cut Pro UG

[Kevin Monahan]

I don’t advise remapping your FCP keyboard to resemble Avids, it will only lengthen your learning curve. Avid is not FCP, they work differently–so it pays to have the FCP mindset from the get go. This advice coming from someone that knows both platforms.

Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
fcpworld.com

[Pol]

I agree, I switched to FCP after 8 years on Avid. At first I wanted to use the same keyboard layout as in Avid. But that will only take you longer to learn FCP.

[Nick Meyers]

You’ll lose a lot of FCP functionalaity if you map the avid keyboard.

FCP uses tools, which can all be summoned with top-level keystrokes.
A for arrow,
R for roll/ripple, etc

also FCP’s keyboard goes deep: it really uses modifiers.

case in point: in and out.

they’re on i & o, of course,

but REMOVE in/out is OPTION i and OPTION o

GOTO in/out is SHIFT i and SHIFT o

leaving 4 keys free for other things.

if you;re coming from an avid bg, i’d strongly recomend getting a FCP keyboard, or set of key-caps.

cheers,
nick

[Mark Raudonis]

Another vote here for NOT trying to mimic an AVID keyboard.

We recently “retrained” 45 former AVID editors onto FCP. Those who chose to “learn” something new rather than “adapt” what they already knew did much better in the long run. Think of it this way… if you jump off the deep end of the pool, you’re definitely gonna learn how to swim. Get the FCP colored keyboard and kiss your AVID goodbye.

Mark

[Shannon Brame]

In fact I have both in my suite and I conformed my avid keyboard to be more FCP like. Its easier to use and it makes more sense. With Avid the functions are too far apart.

[Tae]

[Kevin Monahan] “I don’t advise remapping your FCP keyboard to resemble Avids, it will only lengthen your learning curve. Avid is not FCP, they work differently–so it pays to have the FCP mindset from the get go. This advice coming from someone that knows both platforms.”

As someone else who knows both platforms, I disagree with this vehemently.

Make the keyboard work for you. If for Kevin, it means leaving it the FCP standard way, great. FOr him, that’s correct. If Avid makes more sense to you, then map it that way. My keyboard set up is different than either, but still set up essentially the same way for either. It works best for me, and that’s what matters.

-T