--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Steve Hullfish <steve4lists@...> wrote:
>
> The other thing to remember, if you are on a fairly modern version of
> MC, is that you can use the Mouse setting to map multiple things to
> multiple buttons and chords of buttons on your mouse. I am a very
> heavy keyboard user and I haven't run out of space on mine. But I do
> have my color correction keyboards in a different keyboard setting
> mapped to the Color COrrection workspace. If you also put all of the
> effects keyboard shortcuts in an effects keyboard layout mapped to
> Effects mode, that could also open up more spaces. I am not
> disagreeing really with your point that FCP beats Avid in this regard,
> but there are some pretty decent workarounds. ANother is that there
> are some commands that really have to be used with a mouse - like
> collapse - and in those cases, I don't bother mapping to my keyboard,
> I map the "mousey" functions to the UI since I'm there already, or to
> the mouse.
>
> Steve Hullfish
> contributor: www.provideocoalition.com
> author: "The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction"
> co-author: "Color Correction for Video: revised edition," "Avid Xpress
> Pro Editing Workshop" and "Avid XpressDV On the Spot"
> presenter: Class On Demand's "Complete Training for Avid Media
> Composer" AND "Complete Training for Apple Color"
> www.classondemand.net/media/final-cut-training/color01.aspx
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Jun 9, 2010, at 2:58 PM, Dylan Reeve wrote:
>
> > I always want to see the keyboard map of someone who runs out of
> > keyboard
> > space in Avid - I am pretty "keyboardy" but I still have plenty of
> > space
> > left (mostly on the SHIFT-layer)
> >
> > Problem in Avid is that ALT/OPT is used as a behaviour modifier for
> > a lot of
> > commands, and a lot of CTRL/CMD and CTRL-SHIFT/CMD-SHIFT
> > combinations are
> > used at application level - there aren't really any modifiers left.
> >
> > Of course in FCP all those application level modifiers can be
> > remapped too I
> > think.
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 6:43 AM, Shirley Gutierrez
> > <guanacaa@...> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> It should probably be noted that FCP also allows you to map keys
> >> about 8
> >> different ways using various modifier levels, one area where it
> >> wins hands
> >> down over Avid. As someone who desperately needs more mapping
> >> space, this is
> >> a lack I feel on Avid systems.
> >> Shirley
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: John McClary <johnnyq_@... <johnnyq_%40yahoo.com>>
> >> To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com <Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com>
> >> Sent: Wed, Jun 9, 2010 11:32 am
> >> Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Re: list of Avid stuff you miss in FCP?
> >>
> >> Unlike Avid, FCP has assigned a key combination (or you can do it
> >> yourself)
> >> for
> >>
> >> almost everything it does. So you can automate by scripting the GUI
> >> instead
> >> --
> >>
> >> by sending system events from Applescript to FCP. Or you can use
> >> Quickeys
> >>
> >> http://www.startly.com/products/quickeys/mac/4/
> >>
> >> It's not "true" automation but both tactics allow programs to be
> >> manipulated on
> >>
> >> a Mac.
> >>
> >> So basically you're right - no one wants outsiders to play in their
> >> program. But
> >>
> >> you can hijack their GUI to get a lot of things done.
> >>
> >> John McClary
> >>
> >> --- On Tue, 6/8/10, mike cardeiro <mcardeiro@...<mcardeiro
> >> %40yahoo.com>>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> From: mike cardeiro <mcardeiro@... <mcardeiro%40yahoo.com>>
> >>
> >> Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Re: list of Avid stuff you miss in FCP?
> >>
> >> To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com <Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com>
> >>
> >> Date: Tuesday, June 8, 2010, 2:03 PM
> >>
> >>> From: John McClary <johnnyq_@... <johnnyq_%40yahoo.com>>
> >>
> >>>
> >>
> >>> The one thing that FCP has right and Avid seems to resist is
> >>> automation
> >> from
> >>
> >> outside the application.
> >>
> >> Hell I'd even take automation from within the application. I never
> >> understood
> >>
> >> why they never so much as added a simple marco function (could have
> >> knocked
> >>
> >>
> >> months of cumulative tedium off my life).
> >>
> >> Mike Cardeiro
> >>
> >> Editor/Animator
> >>
> >> D4 Creative Group - Philadelphia, PA
> >>
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