Owen if you baby the editor you bury him. If I need a special tool I supply it. That's not beating someone up that's telling them the right way to do it. Yes if you are renting to someone and they make a small request like this it's good business sense to supply it. And as I mentioned in the thread I'm double shifting and in a pissy mood and because the editor in question isn't part of the list but a client of Ken's it's a good chance to vent. I try to be as self sufficient as I can in the freelance world and I think that's a good thing. If you feel I singled out a Whiny Mac Head tell me who they are and I will make amends to them. Maybe I'll even buy the software for them. ;-)
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, op <owen@...> wrote:
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> Geez johnrobmoore, don't we get beat up enough, do we have to beat up each other?
> what's so bad about loading some app for a customer you are renting to?
> Owen
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> On Jul 22, 2011, at 12:15 AM, David Chmura wrote:
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> > True enough, but (speaking as a freelance editor) I'll admit I have some sympathy for the poor guy!
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> > On Jul 21, 2011, at 6:21 PM, Roger Shufflebottom wrote:
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> > > Or just tell them to grow up and live with it! Is this a freelance editor? Learn to cope and work more often.
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> > > On 21 Jul 2011, at 21:16, johnrobmoore wrote:
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> > >> I have a simpler solution. Take Mr or Ms. Whinny Mac Head into a room with a sturdy table vice. Place the appropriate fingers for alt and ctrl one at a time into the vice and torque down just enough to hold the finger in place. Using a rubber mallet so you don't leave scares, whack until the fingers are bent enough to invert the keystrokes when placed in the normal position over the keyboard. This will maintain the WMH's (Whinny Mac Head's) muscle memory and give him/her a great conversation starter. Once the project is finished your can straighten the effected digits by placing them back in the vice and torquing till straight. Repeat the process as ofter as WMH changes platforms.
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> > >> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "ksirul" <kenavid2@> wrote:
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> > >>> I have a client who will be renting an edit room from us. It is an MC (2.8.5) on a PC (XW8200 32bit XP Pro). The editor is used to editing on Macs and asked about installing Autohotkey (www.autohotkey.com) to change the Alt and Ctl behaviors. There seem to be a few different versions of this. Anyone have any experience with this? Are there issues? Which is the best version to load (or some similar program) that will do this?
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