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But that doesn’t alter the fact that Apple should have had the basic common sense to figure it out for you.
But they don’t.
Not that they’re alone here.
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In nearly six years I think this is the first time I’ve heard anything about someone having problems with slicing a clip in FCP X. If “Apple should have had the basic common sense to figure it out for you” then why isn’t Adobe responsible for providing a clean Premiere Pro UI with logically laid out panels rather than more or less forcing its users to shuffle everything around until it works for them? Why didn’t Adobe anticipate how EVERYBODY prefers to work? No NLE is perfect and every editor works differently but man, this is such a silly little thing.
Gabriel Spaulding
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[Shane Ross] “It describes what it’s doing…not clumsy at all. And yes, I’m nitpicking…TOTALLY nitpicking.”
“Add Edit” is more imprecise language. When you “blade” or “slice” a clip you understand that the clip is still contiguous timing wise. “Add Edit” itself doesn’t imply the same thing. It could describe a shot that is contiguous or a shot that has nothing to do with the first shot. Linguistically it could describe either situation. Two can play the nitpicky game.
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Brett Sherman
One Man Band (If it\’s video related I\’ll do it!)
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Originally it was for an Apple promotional tie-in with the Wesley Snipes movie of the same name.
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[Simon Ubsdell] “The first thing you need to do in any FCP X-like NLE (and it’s of course not the only NLE that is guilty of this) is to swap the keyboard shortcuts for the Blade Tool and Blade. In the case of FCP X, you need to swap “B” with “Cmd-B”.”
In X, B fits with the other single tap mode stuff like A, P, T and R to let the editor toggle Into a mode of similar actions until they elect to stop.
That seems pilosophically consistent to me.
I just don’t see it as a burden to add the left thumb To B to cut something.
Not if you keyboard with both hands, anyway.
YMMV.
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[Noah Kadner] “Originally it was for an Apple promotional tie-in with the Wesley Snipes movie of the same name.”
Snort.
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Not at all, Shane. No harm, no foul, no insult taken at all. I totally understood the spirit in which your post was intended.
I’m glad to see you’re dipping your toe into the FCPX water, however reluctantly. You may actually like it, especially now that most of the initial growing pains have been dealt with. Though I know the famous Hollywood Hostility ™ toward anything new or different, so prevalent in your world (and, to a lesser extent, in mine) will never really go away.
OT: are you still on the Oak Island show? How is that to work on? I assume it’s Avid? And are they ever gonna find that dang money pit?
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Right. I can understand why one would prefer that the two keyboard shortcuts be swapped, but it’s like microseconds either way, pure muscle memory after doing it a couple of times.
Gabriel Spaulding
Creator & Director of ACE Enterprizes
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Why don’t we have a Julienne tool?
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Are we really debating this?
Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter
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