can you trim numerically in a PP CS6 timeline on a laptop???

[Angelo Lorenzo]

I don’t believe so, unless you:

1. Can find a separate keyboard utility that will make your top row keystrokes mimic a numpad

2. Get a USB number pad (these run about $10 and you can find them in office suppy stores, Best Buy-type stores, etc).

3. Learn to use the function key. The right hand side of the keyboard also functions as a numpad with + and – being on the : and ? keys. Unless the newer macbook pros don’t use this.

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[Nick Natteau]

Hi Angelo and thank you for replying.

Actually none of the macbook pros have numerical pads. I believe”s it’s only PC laptops that have them.

Regaridng your third suggestion, using the function key, how do you have it configured?

[Angelo Lorenzo]

I have a 2006/07 MBP and the numpad is part of the traditional keyboard, accessed by holding down the function key (fn key). This is what I’m talking about when I say they have the numpad.

The keys used will have additional very small numerals on them, and on my MBP include 7, 8, 9, 0, -, u, i, o, p, j, k, l, ;, m, period, and /

Take a closer look, although I wouldn’t be surprised if Apple nixed it.

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[Nick Natteau]

Hi Angelo,

Thanks for your continued help. Unfortunately I don’t get the same results when pressing the function key.

If I press “fn +10″, it doesn’t advance me 10 frames on my macbook pro retina (15” model (2011)).

So perhaps Apple did away with that feature on macbooks.

Thanks again.

[John-michael Seng-wheeler]

My MBP doesn’t have little numbers on the keys but it does work.

typing fn +10 isn’t going to work… if you want ten frames you need to type fn+j (which will type a 1) and fn+m (the 0)

The first in each pair is the numpad key, the second is the key you hit alongside the fn key to produce it.

1=j 2=k 3=l
4=u 5=i 6=o
7=7 8=8 9=9
0=m +=/ -=;

Also, “=” is fn+-

[Ryan Aqu]

Trim with numeric keypad entry…

This no longer works with the fn + j. I just switched from FCP7, and typing in a value to nudge a clip is a shortcut I use constantly.

The apple keyboard doesn’t have a number pad. Any other solution?

[John-michael Seng-wheeler]

Yeah, Apple seems to have finally killed the built in numpad on their laptops.

However, a USB numpad can but had for less then $10, so that’s probably the easiest solution.

[Ryan Aqu]

I found this program that actually brings back the functionality. It works GREAT! It’s kinda odd to get used to though. I liked just being able to (Shift + then type the number in FCP7)

Now I have to (fn + / then type number)

https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/index.html.en