Nothing in my manual

[Robert Smith]

heh pulled out a mighty meece and new batteries but argh… to kern a word with the mighty mouse has the same issues of constantly changing focus from typography to text control gadget and back again. It just isn’t a procedure I can live with due to the inefficiency.

btw. now back with my trusty microsoft BOM it appears the scroll wheel works kern tool in the same manner ; thanks again!

[Robert Smith]

whilst bowing to your superior knowledge of apple hardware names and consumate power of acronymns it seems I must pedantically explain that currently , when kerning in FCPX, after clicking between the offending letter space, one currently has no choice but to move the focus of ones eyes from the typography being refined to the type tool gadget that is needed to refine it; once the eyes have moved, the hand and mouse must then co ordinate to click the chosen field/slider and perform the refinement , this process then repeated for every letter … HTH.

Trust me old man; at some point the apple software chaps will say; “oops we forgot to allow kerning from the keyboard via arrow keys with shift and option incremental modifiers , likely our tool is tedious for people who need to craft lots of captions for TV during live sessions with clients” they will then attend to the omission and suddenly we will have no bone to pick with each other.

[Bill Davis]

[Robert Smith] “Trust me old man; at some point the apple software chaps will say; “oops we forgot to allow kerning from the keyboard via arrow keys with shift and option incremental modifiers , likely our tool is tedious for people who need to craft lots of captions for TV during live sessions with clients” they will then attend to the omission and suddenly we will have no bone to pick with each other.”

If this is an accurate assessment, the proper path is to send this to apple as a FCP-X feature request.

If you are correct and there are a significant number of users who find the current tool tedious – then you’ll surely find this addressed all the sooner.

And then, yes, we can all switch from bones to, perhaps, the desk side sandwiches – necessitated by a fulsome new glut of work!

Your lips to gods ear and all.

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[Martin Curtis]

[Andy Branner] “That of course not being specifically indicative of the Magic Mouse but rather ANY mouse with a scroll-wheel.”
Absolutely true. In my case, however, the Magic Mouse feels heaps easier to use – much smoother. Too much mouse wheel usage gives me hand cramps whereas the Magic Mouse is … magic. I love that little guy.

[Andy Branner] And holding the shift key in TENS. As I alluded to, yes.
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