FCP Keyboard Stickers???

[Debe]

There are FCP keyboards, too.

Google “Final Cut Pro Keyboard” (no quotes, obviously…)

See if there’s anything in there that might strike your fancy!

debe

[Jeff Carpenter]

This site has some options:

https://www.logickeyboard.com

They sell a whole keyboard for $100 or just the keys for $60 and you can replace them yourself on your keyboard. (Check bhphotovideo.com, I’ve seen them cheaper there before.)

I’ve seen stickers around before, but it’s probably not a great idea. With all the pushing of buttons, eventually they start to peel up at the edges or slide around a little on the keys.

Even though it’s possible to remap the whole keyboard, I’m not a fan of totally changing the keystrokes to match another program. Once you do stuff like that you’ll eventually find that you can edit just fine on YOUR Final Cut system, but you start to struggle on everyone else’s. When someone asks you “Do you edit on Final Cut?” do you want to answer “Sort-of?”

[David Mercer]

Yeah I was in two minds whether to map the keyboard to resemble an avid configuration. Think I’ll stick with the FCP config.

I may have been a little unclear as to my requirements. I actually have an FCP keyboard but I want to add extra functions to the ‘F’ keys (i.e. F1 F2 F3 etc) at the top of the keyboard, hence the idea of purchasing relevant stickers or keys as a visual aid.

Thanks for your help.

David

[David Roth weiss]

David,

I think the only ones available are written in American…

DRW

[Jeff Carpenter]

Ah, I see what you want.

Honestly? What I’d do is pop the keys out, use white out on them, and then write on them with a very, very fine marker pen. That would be pertty permanent.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[DMERCER] “Yeah I was in two minds whether to map the keyboard to resemble an avid configuration. Think I’ll stick with the FCP config.”

You can do that if it makes you feel more comfortable. The cool thing is you can save your configuration, tote it around with you on a jump drive, and at whatever FCP station you are working, you can load up your keyboard config and away you go.

Jeremy

[Bryce Whiteside]

This is a little off topic, but I thought I would just throw it out there.

Final Cut Pro 4 Default Keyboard Set-up .PDF is the best color coded printable keyboard map I have ever found. You can open it up in Mac OS X Preview or Adobe Acrobat and do a key word search like ‘mark’ and it will take you to every instance of mark like ‘mark in’ or ‘mark out’. You could leave it open in your .PDF reader and just Command+Tab between FCP and your .PDF reader.

At a quick glance you can see what key combinations are available for F1, F2, F3, F4, etc.

If you had a .PDF editor you could type your new functions in there for reference.

FYI,
Bryce Whiteside

[Ernie Santella]

B&H has the replacement keys for $49!
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?A=details&kw=LOKCFCPG5&is=REG&Q=&O=productlist&sku=321100

Ernie Santella
Santella Film/Video Productions
http://www.santellaproductions.com

[Bryce Whiteside]

I don’t know if you are still looking for keyboard stickers but I stumbled across these at Editorskeys.com

FYI,
Bryce Whiteside

[David Mercer]

It’s funny as I actually found that link 2 mins before opening your message. Thanks for the post.

Many Thanks for all your help guys.

David