Yes, I used the Ampex Ace touchscreen freelance for one session around 1990. It was the same software but the keys were mapped to the screen instead of the custom keyboard. Since the screen has no 'spring action' your fingers get sore pretty quick.
As for mouse over keyboard, that's experience, not age. We push our interns, FCP or Avid users, to move to the keyboard as quickly as possible- its simply faster. even smoke, with it's intuitive 'gestural editing' is faster when keyboard and stylus are used in combination.
As one mixer I worked with a said, when they took away his console in favor of a mouse, 'don't cut off my fingers and call it progres.'. With a mouse you can do one thing at a time.
Like typing with a touchpad? While some things in editing are better when you can touch the image, most are not.
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On Feb 17, 2012, at 7:27 AM, "Johnson, Tim" <Tim.Johnson@trinityroselle.com> wrote:
> Didn't Ampex have a touch screen editor once? I seem to recall back in
> my client days watching an editor use one. For a few minutes I thought
> it was really cool. After a few more minutes it looked like a really
> cumbersome way to edit. This would have to have been roughly 1988-92.
> Is that possible?
>
> Tim Johnson
> Pastoral Assistant Audio Visual Ministry
> Trinity Lutheran Church - Roselle, IL
>
> "If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence,
> our servant may prove to be our executioner."
> - Gen. Omar Bradley
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
> Of Tod Hopkins
> Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 7:28 AM
> To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Re: [FCP-L] Mountain Lion? Really?
>
> While the new UI ideas stems from small, touch screen design, and
> facilitates such interaction, that does not necessarily mean the
> converse is true, the the new UI does not somehow diminish
> keyboard/mouse interaction. Do you see anything in FCP X that suggests
> that it could, even in theory, be operated by touchscreen?
>
> The idea that anyone could do serious work using a touchscreen interface
> is patently absurd. I don't think anyone in the UI business, even those
> who live in the reality distortion field, would suggest otherwise.
>
> Cheers,
> tod
>
>
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