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Merry Christmas
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Sorry. FCP7 of course.
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Would it be fair to say that Avid Editors do not much like using the mouse?
For speed reasons or whatever.
Just wondering.
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I dare not speak for others, but I prefer to use the keyboard. Avid is really setup to work fast from the keyboard. Its very fluid. Once you have it setup its like paying the piano. Of course now I find myself wishing I had a skimmer in Avid! Hopefully they steal that.
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I think that’s one of the BIG things perhaps.
For me the mouse has always been a rather nice direct link to the interface. But if you have learnt to be able to do almost everything from the keyboard I guess that could be a cause of some frustration.
Correct me if I’m wrong but you can’t select from the “source” window in Avid and drag a a clip into the timeline with the mouse? Maybe I was doing something wrong but I found that immensely frustrating when I was playing with the free trial.
Even in X I occasionally dump something at the end of the timeline that I know I want to use later. Probably bad practice but it works for me.
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There’s no wrong way. Just user preference. You can drag and drop in every nle. I mapped the transport to the left hand for fcpX so my right hand is always on the mouse. That’s the fastest way for me. All my shortcuts are remapped to the left. Works really well for X.
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You are referring to the JKL keys?
I sort of work the same way only instead of remapping the keys I moved the keyboard!
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