This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] Can't afford engineers here...

Monday, April 18, 2016

Re: [Avid-L2] Can't afford engineers here...

Open the Command Pallete and Keyboard setting.
Click the box at the bottom that says "Menu to Keyboard".
Click on the key or shifted key you want to map.
Click on the Menu item you want.
LRR

--J.B.

David Dodson davaldod@gmail.com [Avid-L2] wrote:
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> I would /love/ to program Shift+E for Export (and Shift+I for Import)
> but can't find the right way to do it. Can someone give me the basics
> on this process? Many thanks.
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> DD
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> David Dodson
> davaldod@gmail.com <mailto:davaldod@gmail.com>
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>> On Apr 18, 2016, at 1:40 AM, Roger Shufflebottom
>> rogershuff@yahoo.co.uk <mailto:rogershuff@yahoo.co.uk> [Avid-L2]
>> <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com <mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>> wrote:
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>> File>Output or R-click>Output sub menu. I, too like the new logic. I
>> have Export programmed to Shift+E anyway!
>> With Best Wishes, Roger Shufflebottom +44 7973 543 660
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>> *From:*"jb30343@windstream.net <mailto:jb30343@windstream.net>
>> [Avid-L2]" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com <mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>>
>> *To:*Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com <mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>;
>> bigfish <bigfish@pacbell.net <mailto:bigfish@pacbell.net>>
>> *Sent:*Monday, 18 April 2016, 0:27
>> *Subject:*Re: RE: [Avid-L2] Re: Can't afford engineers here...
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>> Export is gone too. This is the same mentality as getting rid of
>> the weightlifter. My conclusion is that Avid thinks we all edit
>> at about three cuts per hour and search through all the menus
>> every time we do anything. I assume they no longer have any
>> actual editors in decision making roles. JB
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>> Sent from myMail for iOS
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>> Sunday, April 17, 2016, 5:02 PM -0500 from
>> Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com <mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
>> <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com <mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>>:
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>> For the past week I've spent some testing time on 8.5.1 and
>> 8.4. Today it dawned on me one of the problems I'm seeing
>> could be directly related to this thread. In my recent test
>> when I jump on 8.5.1 and right click on a clip to relink or
>> transcode or get to source settings etc... it seems the
>> entire pulldown menu order is flipped or at least in a
>> completely upside down feeling order compared to Avid 8.4 and
>> all Avid's before. I use relink all the time and now it's at
>> the bottom of the right click when it use to be nearer to the
>> top the top IIRC. Consolidate and transcode use to be in the
>> top 3 and now it's near the bottom etc... I may not have the
>> exact location correct but it feels virtually upside down
>> from my past decades on Avid.
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>> Now this isn't the end of the world but it strikes me as the
>> kind of programming changes you get when you outsource
>> software development and enhancement to 3rd party companies
>> that don't have a long history with the piece of software
>> they are modifying. It also smacks of programmers that
>> aren't sympathetic to the operators needs and concerns. I'm
>> not saying I know this for a fact but WTF? There is no
>> reason to change the order of functions of the right click
>> menu. Adding new features to the list is fine but changing
>> the basic order is just a big FU to the user base IMHO. If I
>> could see any reason behind the reordering than I wouldn't be
>> spouting of but I read it as new programmers who now coding
>> but not editing. At the very least you don't reprogram a
>> Typewriter Program and move the "E" key for no reason.
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>> Can anyone shed any light on why the list order is so
>> drastically different in 8.5.1?
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>> ---In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
>> <mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>, <bigfish@...> wrote :
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>> But this seems like Avid themselves are using another company
>> to program the Avid software and work on development. AMA was
>> assigned to the camera manufacturers because of the constant
>> changes in codecs etc... The avid core software is what it
>> sounds like is being farmed out to this company. Perhaps I'm
>> not completely understanding the relationship it just seems
>> less than optimal for the core software of the NLE.
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>> ---In avid-l2@yahoogroups.com
>> <mailto:avid-l2@yahoogroups.com>, <avid@...> wrote :
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>> I have no special knowledge, but this seems to me to be a way
>> for other people to integrate 3^rd party software into
>> Avid.Think about AMA – they have made the camera makers
>> responsible to develop new AMA plug ins to support whatever
>> crazy camera formats they come up with.My guess is that some
>> users of a certain scale want to get under the hood and make
>> use of the Media Composer framework.
>> Dave Spraker
>> /Principal,*spraker.tv*/
>> /Northwest Territory Manager,*Western Rep Associates*/
>> dave@...
>> (503) 897-0250
>> *From:*Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com[mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com]
>> *Sent:*Monday, April 11, 2016 2:37 PM
>> *To:*Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
>> *Subject:*[Avid-L2] Re: Can't afford engineers here...
>> Does this mean that Avid is outsourcing development of Avid
>> software? I skimmed a bit of the link and there is
>> collaboration between the two companies. It would seem a
>> daunting task to keep all the software developers on the same
>> or similar page when everything is in house. Spreading that
>> across to another company would seem to add to confusion and
>> mistakes, but that is certainly not my area of expertise.
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>> ---Inavid-l2@yahoogroups.com, <tcurren@...> wrote :
>> It's nice when the folks you outsource to sponsor your
>> parties. :-/
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