Best NLE for keyboard shortcuts?

[Joseph W. bourke]

Same here – just curious as to his level of PPro interface knowledge, and whether he was using the new software, or basing his opinions on older versions. Thanks.

Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com

[David Cherniack]

Joe, you didn’t read my post very closely. I was referring to Premiere not having a graphical keyboard interface for setting shortcuts. The interface in Premiere is just a glorified list. You can load and save different settings but it’s not as intuitive or easy as working with a graphical representation.

David
AllinOneFilms.com

[Dennis Radeke]

[David Cherniack] “But Pr CS4 was not Adobe’s, or their third parties, finest hour.”

I agree. The reason (if anyone cares) is that we were beginning to make large architectural changes. In CS4, we changed the project file from codecs being related to the project to codecs being related to a particular sequence. In addition, we went 64-bit optimized (not native) and to top it off, we let the 3rd party hardware people certify their own drivers for CS4. The last one was a particularly a bad move…

Anyway, if someone has a choice between using CS4 or CS5.5 trial, I would totally point them to the native 64-bit to get a fair evaluation.

Dennis

[David Cherniack]

The difference between 4 and 5.0, 5.5 was enormous, like night and day.

David
AllinOneFilms.com

[Andy Lewis]

Well I’m trying out Premiere Pro. I wasn’t particularly thrilled about that decision, I have to say. Of all the options, it seemed like the most sensible and least exciting. I thought I knew what was coming – similar to FCP7 but clunkier and faster.

And it is exactly that. What I underestimated was just how wonderful it is to have all kinds in the timeline without having to render. It’s… beautiful.

Sadly, after the initial honeymoon I’m back on the clunky side of town. And yes, keyboard shortcuts…

To pick just 2 examples:

Selecting a clip in FCP7:
“X” to place in and out points at start and end of clip
“option-A” to select clip

and

“V” to select nearest edit point

If there are PPro equivalents to these, please let me know cos I can’t find them. Selection is pretty fundamental to any NLE and these core functions appear to be mouse only.

I know the usual advice for learning new software amounts to “stop thinking in the old language and learn the new one.” I’d normally agree, but I really don’t think I want to go back to a way of working that involves moving my hands between the mouse and the keyboard every 10 seconds.

I’m seriously considering having another go at FCPX just for this reason. It’s a Spanish building site at the moment but maybe it will be lovely when it’s finished and the pool’s been filled up.

Are anyone’s fingers flying with joy through the FCPX interface? Or is anyone making better progress with PPro than I am?