[Keith Hamm]

I wouldn’t hang my hat on any Apple products. They don’t have a poor track record of maintaining “professional” products.

[Keith Hamm]

One of the features I’m missing most from Avid, and my custom FCP setup, was JKL trimming WITHOUT entering trim mode. Maybe I’m missing something but in Premiere when you have A, B, or A/B trims selected in the timeline you can’t use the trim many or JKL without being in trim mode. This is a bit annoying for quick and simple trims within the timeline. You can only trim with the mouse within the timeline which for many of us coming from other NLE’s this is quite a design flaw.

[Keith Hamm]

Completely agree. They have stabbed their loyal users in the back as they had with the early iPhone adopters. I’m requesting an immediate refund as well.

[Keith Hamm]

The new interface had me reaching for my barf bag. Still lots of very unanswered questions. If I was a FCP only shop looking at this demo I’d be VERY nervous right now about the money I have invested in a FCP pipeline. Shake anyone?

What of TRIM? What about a COLLABORATIVE PROJECT ENVIRONMENT? SERVER BASED TECHNOLOGY? And MEDIA MANAGEMENT? Weakest parts of FCP I can tell you first hand, the lack of media management in FCP is an assistant’s nightmare. I’m dealing with it on a daily basis.

Oh but it will sync the sound for you. Have you seen what it can do with iChat and this magnetic timeline?

So lame but we’ve come to expect consumer products now from Apple. I hope Avid is paying attention. They are more than long overdue on their own full re-write.

-K

[Keith Hamm]

Jane,

I learned FCP in 2003 before more recently Avid, and now my Avid professional experience has cross-pollenated how I work in FCP. My keyboard arrangement is even Avid style because frankly it’s a WAY more efficient style to work. Rather than giving you a RTFM response that can often pervades the cow, I will make these practical solutions to a VERY VALID way of working:

Customize your keyboard so that your V and B keys are “Insert sequence content” and “overwrite sequence content” respectively rather than the troublesome FCP defaults. When you cut with your sequence in source side it will cut in the material rather than a nested sequence.

Another way of working that no one ever mentions on these threads is to have your selects timeline open above your record timeline (having more than one timeline open at the same time is a great feature of FCP.) You should even have your selects Canvas viewer open in a separate canvas, tabbed together, same as your sequences tabbed. Basically now you will have 3 groups of viewers. One source, one tab of selects timelines, and one record. I mark an In and Out on my selects sequence, hit option A (for select in to out), copy and paste. There are two useful pastes: overwrite paste (command v) or insert paste (shift v).

Until FCP adds proper timeline to timeline editing (which I have a good feeling is in the next version) this will have to be your workaround. Email me if you want my keyboard settings and I’ll send them to you.