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

I'm personally amazed over and over again to what degree people are willing to spend amazing amounts on hard and software in this industry, but near ZERO for any type of TRAINING to actually work said hard and software proficiently. The training is there, from Apple and others, and you in fact learn (very basic) things like why "Media Limit" in fact does not "suck", but rather why and when you get it and the very simple way of avoiding it, when needed. It's fun to see how fast people will find something stupid/lame/sucky because it's supposedly not working or someone else (Apple?) is stupid or doesn't get it, instead of maybe just admitting or realizing that they simply missing the knowledge. Oh well.

I always drive on the right side when in GB, just to make the point that they're lame and their traffic laws are broken and sucky and I know better. Weird how unappreciative them brits can be. :-P

As far as an Avid layout for FCP is concerned:

http://files.me.com/loyed/oddbtm

From PVCs Scott Simmons. Been there for ages. No idea if it's any good tho. Haven't worked Avid since 2001 either.

The training part goes for Motion as well of course. Since it follows a *completely* different paradigm as AE and they are no way *near* interchangeable and also positioned *completely* different. If you don't know that, you don't know Motion. Therefore to assume that by somehow changing it into some mini-AE by simply remapping the keyboard (which wouldn't even get close to working btw) will suddenly magically make you a skillful Motion operator, strikes me personally as rather near-sighted.

But I'm sure to be flamed accordingly now that I've dared to doubt anyone's ability I'm sure... :)

Rob

On 18.11.2009, at 08:03, Steve Hullfish wrote:

> I know that Premiere has an Avid and an FCP keyboard setting that you
> can just call up.
>
> It doesn't look like FCP has the same thing. It wouldn't be hard to
> create one and load it.
>
> In FCP go to Tools > Keyboard layout > Customize or Load or Save
> Layout. So if someone made one, it should be easy to load.
>
> You should be able to make an Avid FCP keyboard layout in about 10
> minutes.
>
> By the way, I believe, Loren is a man...
>
> On Nov 18, 2009, at 12:41 AM, Darrin Cardani wrote:
>
>>> Some of you might find Loren Miller's post helpful:
>>>
>>> http://www.avid2fcp.com/?p=20
>>
>> I see that she mentions how you can change the keyboard in FCP to be
>> more like Avid's, but I don't see a layout you can just download. (If
>> it's there, please point me to it! I admit I didn't look real
>> carefully.) Would people find it helpful if there was an Avid-like
>> layout that either came with the app, or that you could download
>> easily?
>>
>> Likewise with Motion and After Effects. Would it be useful to have an
>> After Effects-like keyboard layout you could just switch to?
>>
>> Darrin
>> --
>> Darrin Cardani
>> darrin.cardani@gmail.com
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