Re: [FCP-L] Re: Murch "back on Avid" for at least one film...

On 18.11.2009, at 18:31, James Culbertson wrote:

> Yes, Robin, I was assuming I could make Motion into a mini-AE and
> INSTANTLY become a skillful Motion operator. You have revealed my
> ignorance, and I am greatly saddened and humbled by this turn of events.
>

Well, can't say I didn't see it comin', huh? Seems a given.

Personally, when I teach FCP etc. I in fact make a point of telling students NOT to do any major type of remapping when we get to the keyboard layout part. But rather tell them they should at best look to see which keys *aren't* yet used and put any extras on them—of which there are many—if needed. Mainly because the majority of them are freelance and I've seen many get really miffed when they sit down at a shared machine at a facility and nearly *nothing* works the way it should, just because the last guy showed up with a USB-stick filled with 14 pref files that he's installed and loaded. Sure, it's fairly simple to reset everything, but that first minute or so of confusion is just plain *annoying* when you just want to get things DONE. And if you're just in for some quick help, you waste amazing time with resetting, setting, resetting a.s.o.

Those have also been the ones re-booked LAST. It's the little things.

Aside from the fact that if you've accustomed yourself to a completely different layout, what happens if you're plain not *allowed* to fiddle with the layout? You're screwed and inefficient. It's just plain not worth it.

I even once had a guy at a job that would switch the viewer and canvas positions because he actually thought the distance he had to drag a clip to get onto the canvas window overlays (waaaaaaaaaaaay over on the right as you know) far too long. His way made it just a twitch of the wrist. Hilarious. Then again, he didn't even know that "Overwrite", which was 99% of what he did, is the default no matter where you drop the clip in the canvas. Try the switch on someone sometime... that'll really mess with their head (assuming the person actually works via drag'n'drop, but also otherwise). :-D

I showed him the F-keys first thing.

But for me learning something new has never actually been a *bad* thing. But ironically, with age the NEED grows (to keep the ol' grey-matter flowin') but the WILLINGNESS shrinks disproportionately. Especially in this industry it seems. Odd.

- RK

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