Simple Keyboard Shortcut Survey…

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Bret Williams] “I’ve foud that most of the time option+[ or option+] has replace the extend feature for me in X.”

Say wha? That’s ripple trim (top/tail).

😉

[Andy Neil]

[Bret Williams] “When I moved from Media100 to Avid years ago, I tried to map my Media100 shortcuts in some meaningful way.”

Same for me. I always filled up my shift shortcuts on the Avid so quickly because you couldn’t (can’t) map to the other modifier keys. 15 years later you can do practically every fx in real time, mix different formats and frame rates in the same sequence, but I STILL can’t map anything to the OPTION keys.

Andy

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[Bret Williams]

Yes. I’m usually using it when rough cutting dialog interview pieces. And since that generally consists of shortening soundbites from the original longer cuts, it works perfectly. You’ll find extend does the exact same thing if you highlight one side of an edit for shortening. I guess i still would use extend for a lengthening or a double sided roll. And I’m still lazy a lot of the time and just roll or extend with the mouse. All depends on how slumped back I am in my chair and if I can easily reach the keyboard without putting down my coffee.

[Bret Williams]

My left hand still resides on the cmd+s shortcut out of 20 years of using NLEs. Although all I get in X is that nasty “you’re an idiot” noise now.