Well...yeah, I look. I type 45wpm, but only with four fingers and one eye to keep them in play. But I've started using a fountain pen and mechanical watch, too, so I can't remember what century we're in.
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Jeff Cook
jeff@cookstudios.com
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Cook Studios, Inc
Freelance Video Editing
Washington DC & Portable
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On Jul 6, 2011, at 1:30 PM, Shirley Gutierrez <guanacaa@aol.com> wrote:
> I guess that's a difference between you and me. I don't like to look, and I don't like to aim. You don't look and aim when you type, to you? Before the aluminums, editing was like typing - I never looked, and now I have to.
>
>
> Enjoy that trackpad. I like it also.
>
>
> Best,
> Shirley
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Cook <jeff@cookstudios.com>
> To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Wed, Jul 6, 2011 8:08 am
> Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Non "aluminum" Mac keyboards?
>
>
> I've had the same issue trying to find the function keys, but I'm over it. I
> find myself looking at the row of number keys just below them, and aiming up to
> the right to hit the corresponding F key. The numbers are all matched up.
>
> I just started a one day per week gig that has only the old plastic Apple
> keyboards, and it's darn difficult to clunk around on those for me know. I love
> the full-size aluminum keyboards.
>
> And I'm also editing exclusively with a Magic Trackpad now, and luuuving it. The
> occasional producer still gets nervous when they don't hear all that mousy
> clack-clacking in their head all day, but they're catching on. Now if I could
> just get a couple taildraggers to update their software (and Macs) so I could
> use the thing on their machines, I'd be done with mice forever.
>
> Onward!
>
> --
> Jeff Cook
> jeff@cookstudios.com
> 703-980-1104 (cell)
>
> Cook Studios, Inc
> Freelance Video Editing
> Washington DC & Portable
> http://CookStudios.com
>
> On Jul 6, 2011, at 10:58 AM, Shirley Gutierrez <guanacaa@aol.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Folks are different in this respect. I tend to hit the keys very hard, and the
> aluminum keyboard does weird things, like toggle the function I just hit so that
> nothing happens. I make more mistakes on it typing too - it's almost TOO
> responsive. But the biggest problem I have is that they shrank and squished the
> function key row. I'm all over the function key row constantly, whether in FCP
> or Avid, and the fact that keys are half sized and crammed together means that I
> have to slow down and aim to find any given key. And to me, slowing down is a
> form of death. It just can't happen.
>>
>> I guess for me the ideal keyboard would split the difference. It would be
> halfway between the aluminum and the old keyboards in responsiveness of action,
> but I would have my good old function key row back the way it was.
>>
>> Shirley
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>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David Ross <speckydave@gmail.com>
>> To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
>> Sent: Wed, Jul 6, 2011 1:29 am
>> Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Non "aluminum" Mac keyboards?
>>
>>
>> Really? The old plastic mac keyboards seem so big and clunky now I'm used to
>> the aluminium versions. Far more comfortable - I'd never go back.
>>
>> D.
>>
>> On Jul 6, 2011 7:31 AM, "Shirley Gutierrez" <guanacaa@aol.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Boy, wouldn't THAT be nice! I've dealt with both the Bella, and the
>> British version of the Macally that Roger went to incredible pains to get to
>> me, I hate those stupid toy keyboards so much.
>>>
>>> Shirley
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: jeffsengpiehl <jeffsengpiehl@yahoo.com>
>>> To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
>>> Sent: Tue, Jul 5, 2011 9:46 pm
>>> Subject: [Avid-L2] Non "aluminum" Mac keyboards?
>>>
>>> Anyone got a source for non aluminum Macintosh keyboards for Composer
>> (with
>>> keycaps, no stickers)
>>>
>>> And not the "bella" PC versions, Macintosh keyboards, no swapping of keys
>>> needed...
>>>
>>> JDS
>>>
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