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!
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Jeff Cook
jeff@cookstudios.com
703-980-1104 (cell)
Cook Studios, Inc
Freelance Video Editing
Washington DC & Portable
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On Jul 6, 2011, at 10:58 AM, Shirley Gutierrez <guanacaa@aol.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> D.
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> On Jul 6, 2011 7:31 AM, "Shirley Gutierrez" <guanacaa@aol.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> Shirley
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>> -----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?
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>> Anyone got a source for non aluminum Macintosh keyboards for Composer
> (with
>> keycaps, no stickers)
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>> And not the "bella" PC versions, Macintosh keyboards, no swapping of keys
>> needed...
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>> JDS
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