[Joshua Schwarz]

i have to laugh. i remember being annoyed that avid didn’t pay attention to the cmx keyboard which was standardized across cmx, grass valley, sony and virtually every taped based edit system. i remapped my avid keyboard based on cmx and i use it that way to this day. i can ‘t keyboard edit on anybody else’s avid unless i bring my settings with me. i remember the pains that avid and lightworks went through to create mechanical interfaces that behave like jog wheels and steenbeck controllers. i’m much faster on an apple mouse than i ever was with a sony jog wheel. i’m learning fcp and i definitely will not be remapping the fcp keyboard to cmx! my phillosophy has changed. i now believe that i’m more adaptable than the machine.

[Joshua Schwarz]

i’m an avid editor making the transition. i have found that you can scrub in fcp trim mode if you have your user settings/editing set to “trim with sequence audio.”

i have a related question. rather the going to the trim window, i prefer to trim in the timeline using the “[” and “]” keys. it’s a bit faster. however, i haven’t found a way to enable audio scrubbing while trimming that way. does anyone have a technique for trimming in the timeline with audio scrubbing?

thanks,

josh