Can any Quickeys User Help me?

[Jerry Hofmann]

Not a QuickKeys user myself, but your statement about not being able to edit from a new viewer window isn’t right.. if it’s active, the FCP keyboard commands work from it.

Jerry

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[Kevin]

Hi Jerry and many thanks for your response. I’m pretty certain I’m right though. FCP shortcuts are only active in the main viewer. If for example I have two viewer windows open and I have a clip marked in each, it doesn’t matter if the secondary viewer is active, using a the FCP keyboard shortcuts for insert edit, overwrite etc will only effect the main viewer. In the example above even if you’re working in the secondary preview window, pressing F9 will insert the clip from the main preview window into the timeline. I would dearly love to be wrong on this one as I’ve been trying to figure out a way to use the shortcuts from additional windows forever. If you can tell me I’m doing something fundamentally wrong I would be ecstatic.

Being able to use shorts cut would shave days off some of my edits this trying to accomplish the above through Quickeys. But if it can be done in FCP I’d be over the moon.

Again many thanks for your feedback and for taking the time to post.

Peace,

Kevin

[Jerry Hofmann]

Odd. I’m running FCP 6.0.5 and just tried this…

If I open a clip in a new viewer, and set in and out points using keyboard shortcuts, I then can type the edit keys (f9 etc.) and it does add the clip from that new viewer to the timeline, even with the window labled Viewer holding the earlier clip…

Jerry

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[Kevin]

Hi Jerry,

Thank you again for helping me on this.

Very curious though. I’m on the same version 6.0.5 (and have been trying the accomplisg the samething since FCP came out!) andI’m notable to do what you’re doing.

I have two clips. I open one in the main viewer by clicking it. I open a second clip i a new viewer. Even if I’m active in the secondary viewer the clip marked in the primary viewer is what I get in the timeline when I use the insert edit shortcut key.

If I just open one clip in a new viewer, and invoke the insert edit command I get a slug appearing in the timeline which I guess is consistent with the main viewer being the only one that the command keys work on.

The only think I can think of that possibly differnt is that I have hotkeyed the “/” symbol as the short cut key command for insert edit (via the customizable buttons list). I do this because on my keyboard the F9 key itself doesn’t work in FCP as it’s the key for >>).

It is possile not having the F9 key itself available is the culprit here?

If so do you know how I can make a system change to allow that key work as the insert edit key in FCP?

Again thank you for your help. I’m very encouraged by the fact that you can do what I am hoping to be able to do at your end.

Again thanks for your continued support.

Kevin

[Jerry Hofmann]

Is this system cleanly installed and was it done in the last year? If not I’ll suggest that it’s one of three things:

1. Software install gone wrong. Clean install will fix it. as in new startup disk from the ground up.
2. Hardware problems, but it doesn’t sound like that to me.
3. User error. (sorry but doesn’t sound like that either, or I’d have you fixed already).

It’s always one of these things isn’t it? If I can do it, it’s not a bug usually, or it would be affecting all of us.

It’s not a setting either…

Tried it on another system?

Jerry

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[Kevin]

Hi Jerry,

Now I’m even more curious. I’ve tried on my own machine which is a G5 PC Mac and also on four other stations which are intel iMacs and also on a MacBook pro – all with the same result. no matter what preiview window is active the system shortcut keys apply to the clip in the main window! I did made the system setting chanhce so that the prescribed FCP hotkeys are functional i.e. F9 is insert edit. So if you’re abl to do it I’ll definitely do a new install and see if that will give me that functionality from all preview windows. Excited to try and againmany thanks for stiking with me to a resolution.

Best,

K.

[Kevin]

Hi Jerry,

Again many thanks for helping me on this hotkey question. Now I’m quite baffled. I did a clean install and checked four other workstations and had three editor friends try use the F9 hotkey to take a clip from a preview window other than the main on and they all report the same – that those the F9 hotkey only takes the clip from the main window. Is it possible you were opened the same clip in both prewiew windows and the clip that was inserted was actually from the main window?

If indeed it’s not possible to do what I’m trying, I wonder what the logic is in having to drop the clip over the pop-up windows to get footage from a secondary window into the timeline.

I’ve tried using the F9 key directly and a custom keystroke for insert edit both with the same result.

For now I’ll battle on witht he manual adding of clips from the additional viewers but if you can think of anything I can try this end I would be extremely grateful.

Agaain many thanks,

Kevin