How to use F13-16 in FCP Keyboard.

Thanks for the reply.

I did all that before. Actually Expose has been moved to a different F key and F13-16 don't have anything assigned to them

When I go into FCP Keyboard customizer, F13-15 are pink and it says they are reserved and I can't assign to them.

F16 key doesn't even show up on FCP keyboard customizer. Sorry it sounded like I said I didn't actually have a F16.... sure I do, It happily lives next to F15 🙂

Am I still doing something wrong here?

Thanks

Yup. First thing I did. They just show up as pink (reserved)

Yikes! I'm rather disapointed in Apple's technology. I mean in the year 2007 I find it interesting that someone cannot write code in FCP to ask OSX which buttons are available on the keyboard and let you use it.

Kind of short-sighted to dumb an application down to the lowest common denominator.

Thank goodness they didn't make FCP work with only two cores because that's all a laptop has.... WAIT! FCP doesn't use all 8-cores! Maybe they did 🙂

Hi Jerry,

Not frustrated at you at all. I appreciate your responses.

But.... when I look at Premiere Pro CS3 for Mac, it uses all 8 cores for previews (not just final rendering) and if I have other applications open THEN it revs itself down to "make room".

I appreciate the description of FCP only using a small portion of all 8-cores becusae it's leaving room for other apps, but it's just old programming, plain and simple. Apple needs to step up to the multi-processor environment like other companies are doing.

In my opinion, it's inexcusable that they sell 8-core machine and that their flagship application cannot use all 8 cores to their maximum without going into a special program and turning on special features. I already described Premiere Pro. After Effects CS3 for Mac also uses all 8 cores - without having to use some external program like Qmaster (or whatever it's called).

Hopefully Apple will get with the program with both Leopard and FCS 3 (my guess is April).

Some other gripes I have with FCP over Premiere are:

1. Why is audio scrubbing not pitch-inclusive like Premiere is? Premiere sounds EXACTLY like an audio tape being scrubbed back and forth. FCP sounds like digital stuff.

2. Premiere can handle at least 3 more simultaneous HDV streams without wanting to render.

Now don't me wrong. I think FCP is the better program in terms of HOW you edit. Frankly I bought the Mac Pro and FCP (after being a Premiere user for 10 years) because of FCP integration with XDCAM HD. Adobe said "screw it" and left it up to third parties whereas Apple stepped up and made it work internally.

Stacy

You are right. Sorry. I would very much like to figure out why I can't use F16 in FCP, though.

Stacy