[John Grote, jr.]

SyntaxJO,

I have been an AVID editor for 13 years and what I did when I went to final cut was I mapped the fcp keyboard as I have my AVID keyboard mapped. This helped me out a lot in transitioning from one to the other. It will take you some time, but this could be very valuable in that you will learn what AVID uses for Insert or Over right edits. One thing though, there is no superimpose as an edit option, you have to apply an effect from the effect pallet to accomplish this.

It use to be that most linear keyboards were set up very similar, but not the non-linear keyboards. AVID and FCP are quite similar, but you need to take the time to find out what the AVID calls a key/action to what FCP calls a key/action.

As for the AVID manual, it will help you out a little, but not much. It should have a guide to what keys do what.

This should help for now.

John

[John Grote, jr.]

Ed,

Please tell me more about the SATA drive setup?

Thanx,

John