Bella also produce a range of dedicated keyboards for NLEs including FCPX. LogicKeyboards are not the only manufacturer of multicolour flavour keyboards. We didn't get them all back in the right places, but not far off. That includes one unfortunate episode in a car park when the old style keyboard got dropped and all the key caps popped off leaving us in the rain wondering what the layout was to get them all back on again correctly. The new model we chose was the thin aluminium style Apple keyboard from LogicKeyboard, chosen because our previous keyboards from them have never let us down. So this week we took delivery of a brand new dedicated keyboard for FCPX, the two older keyboards you see in the picture are not in retirement just yet! But what a revelation, a dedicated keyboard could be the single most useful tool for quicker and better editing in FCPX.
To get that muscle memory you need to know exactly what key does what and using a dedicated keyboard speeds up the learning process by a large factor. Also keyboard commands are the quickest way to edit, shorcuts can take away a lot of the repeated mouse clicking needed to navigate around the interface. Working an NLE should be a bit like driving a car, concentrating on what is happening in front of you without having to look down at the controls. We still have coloured keycaps but we now have a very, very different layout! It is now ten years since we bought our first dedicated keyboard for FCP, how things have changed since then.
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