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  • Richard Herd

    March 7, 2017 at 8:12 pm

    [Simon Ubsdell] “nobody is actually thinking hard enough about this stuff”

    We tried.

    https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/335/92650

  • Richard Herd

    March 7, 2017 at 8:15 pm

    [Oliver Peters] “Premiere and AE”

    Like the command for getting out of typing text. Why are they different?

  • Jeremy Garchow

    March 7, 2017 at 8:24 pm

    [Richard Herd] “Like the command for getting out of typing text. Why are they different?”

    You mean, when you hit enter after changing the name, the selection goes down to the next clip in Pr?

  • Scott Witthaus

    March 7, 2017 at 8:57 pm

    [Jeremy Garchow] “Premiere’s constant track height adjustment on mouse scroll is maddening. So are tracks, they will never be enough kb shortcuts to manage tracks and track selection.”

    Bingo.

    Scott Witthaus
    Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
    1708 Inc./Editorial
    Professor, VCU Brandcenter

  • Richard Herd

    March 7, 2017 at 11:58 pm

    OMG. That’s so silly.

    But I meant in AE when I hit ESC it deletes what I was doing, but in the Pr titler it is done. See also: illustrator and photoshop. argh.

  • Tony West

    March 8, 2017 at 1:01 am

    [Simon Ubsdell] “In FCP X it’s Cmd- and Cmd=.

    Zoom in X command + and zoom out command – right?

    Make sense to me. The plus key and minus keys are on the left on my keyboard.

    I remap all of my modifiers that I use a lot to one single key.

  • Robin S. kurz

    March 12, 2017 at 5:09 pm

    [Simon Ubsdell] “In FCP X it’s Cmd- and Cmd=.”

    ????

    It’s ⌘+ and ⌘- here. Just as it is with every other app I have and can think of that has a zoom of sorts. E.g. Photoshop and every version of FCP to date as far as I can recall.

    Can’t say that using Q, W, E and D as the shortcuts for the main edit functions could be considered lazy either, but rather very well thought out.

    – RK

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  • Simon Ubsdell

    March 12, 2017 at 6:02 pm

    [Robin S. Kurz] “It’s ⌘+ and ⌘- here. “

    No, it really isn’t. It’s Cmd/- and Cmd/=.

    It’s Cmd/plus and Cmd/minus if you’re using the extended keyboard.

    On the non-extended keyboard, Cmd Plus (i.e. Cmd/Shift/=) zooms the filmstrip not the timeline itself. Just as Cmd/Underscore (i.e. Cmd/Shift/-) zooms out from the filmstrips.

    I’m talking about timeline zooming, not filmstrip zooming.

    Simon Ubsdell
    tokyo productions
    hawaiki

  • Simon Ubsdell

    March 12, 2017 at 6:20 pm

    From the FCP X manual:

    I thought you taught this stuff?

    Simon Ubsdell
    tokyo productions
    hawaiki

  • Robin S. kurz

    March 12, 2017 at 6:32 pm

    [Simon Ubsdell] “I’m talking about timeline zooming, not filmstrip zooming.”

    Both zooms use the same shortcut. Timeline, viewer, library, event (in filmstrip). All zoom with the same shortcut. And really, technically, I’d say one could easily argue that that IS the plus key, even on the english keyboard. So yeah, ⌘- and +. Not a hard case to make in that context imho. Or would ⌘-SHIFT-= somehow make matters better, just for the sake of being “more logical” or whatever it is you’re arguing is so horrible? Somehow I highly doubt it. So yeah… I’d say cranky first world problem. ????

    [Simon Ubsdell] “I thought you taught this stuff?”

    Don’t recall ever saying I teach it in english.

    – RK

    ____________________________________________________
    Deutsch? Hier gibt es ein umfassendes FCP X Training für dich!

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