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AVID – Why Not?
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[Michael Aranyshev] “Because it still doesn’t know how to use your screen real estate efficiently? The thing is ugly and it’s ugliness actually gets in your way. When you clean it up to look halfway decent it stops working because “Avid is keyboard–centered NLE” is outright lie. You can’t work without desperately clinging onto your mouse all the time.
“Really? I barely need to touch a mouse once im building a cut in the timeline. This is the first time I’ve ever heard anyone complain about needing to mouse in MC.
Also screen real estate? You can make the UI do whatever you want. Buttons, no buttons, one window, two windows – whatever, and however you set up the UI shouldn’t effect the ability to use KB shortcuts.
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[Daniel Frome] “For the record, I’ve done lots of high-end FX and grading in MC.”
Just out of curiosity, what do you mean by that? What kind of effect(s) did you do, and what made it high-end?
Shawn
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How do you navigate your bins with keyboard shortcuts?
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FCPX still doesn’t get basic editing right so it shouldn’t be included in this discussion at all but yes, you cannot work without the mouse in any current NLE. And that’s a shame.
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[Michael Aranyshev] “FCPX still doesn’t get basic editing right so it shouldn’t be included in this discussion at all”
An the winner of this weeks “Aindreas award” is……
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[Michael Aranyshev] “FCPX still doesn’t get basic editing right so it shouldn’t be included in this discussion at all but yes, you cannot work without the mouse in any current NLE. And that’s a shame.”
I’ve found that Premiere is surprisingly close to being a mouseless program (closest I’ve gotten, anyway), but their idiotic and logic defying track patching stops that dead in its tracks. How they still haven’t fixed it after all this time baffles me.
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Michael Hancock
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Sure. Call me back when backtime edit is not an afterthought and there is a Replace on Playhead there.
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[Michael Aranyshev] “Sure. Call me back when backtime edit is not an afterthought and there is a Replace on Playhead there.”
Fair enough, I don’t know how us FCPX users get on without those functions
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[Michael Aranyshev] “How do you navigate your bins with keyboard shortcuts?”
You cant.
That doesn’t mean your “desperately clinging to your mouse at all times”
Pretty much everything in the timeline/fx/and color modes is accessible via KB, and much more KB centric than other NLE’s
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So half of the interface is inaccessible from keyboard and it’s still much more keyboard-centric than others? That’s a sad state of affairs.
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