Hello.
I know of a major new feature about pressing the "grave" key while operating on clips on the primary timeline. It does not seem to work with an Italian keyboard, where that key is missing. On FCP7 I was able to modify the keyboard layout to "US" in order to be able to use all the keyboard shortcut. I can't find that feature in FCPX. Can you help me?
Regards
Fabrizio D'Agnano
Rome, Italy
Final Cut Pro X, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
Understand. Above my pay grade. Last ditch attempt:
If you're looking for the Grave key on a US keyboard, it's just below the ESC key. It is the same as the ~ / ` key.
(I may not understand your question, however. You want to make a shortcut in place of hitting that key?)
The problem is that on a non US keyboard there's a completely different symbol in that position. A backslash. I don't have a US keyboard as I live in Italy and the Mac's sold here have an Italian keyboard, that's mapped differently. I had the same issue working in FCP7, but there was a feature inside the application that allowed me to switch to US and have all of the keyboard shortcuts available. I can't find it in FCPX.
Final Cut Pro Menu>Commands>Customize. Then search for Override Connections. You can then re-assign this function to another key.
Thank you dastoelk.
However, it does not work. A different character comes out from my keyboard.
Thank you James.
What exactly is the description of the grave key function? I had already tried to custmize the keyboard from the commands, but I can't find something that describes that, it could be a technical term I don't recognize.
the key-combo to 'unchain temporarely' the 2nd line from the main storyline on non-US keyboards is
cmd-<
(command and 'smaller' sign, left from y)
Thank you Karsten.
I have tried on noth my MBP and MacPro, but it does not work. The "temporarily unchain" sign does not appear with the position tool selected, and if I move a clip on the primary storyline the connected clips move with it as usual.
I'm using a German keyboard (=no grave upper left, but ° and ^ 😉 )
and pressing cmd-< creates that colorful cursor to shift clips without its connections.
sorry for the blurry pic - but my usual screen-grabbers don't catch the modified cursors ...
it's a photo from my dusty monitor 😁
probably an Italian keyboard is different ...
with my IP adress, I have no access to the Italian Manual but you
http://help.apple.com/finalcutpro/mac/10.0.6/#ver90ba5929
should find in the listed keyboard shortcuts under 'Editing' a shortcut for
'Connessioni annullare' or whatever it is in Italian (Google translation)
here 'Verbindungen lösen' ......
or The Ol' Switcheroo as Larry Jordan does call it here
Temporarily disconnect works with slip and slide tools.
Tom,
it works with the "select" and "position" tool as well. If I move a clip with connected clips without the "override connections" command, the connected clips go with the one on the primary. If I am under the override, they stay put. I think it's a very useful tool.
OK, problem solved. I got the tip from the "Creative Cow" forum. I think it can be useful for others, so here is the solution: IN FCPX, go to Final Cut Pro>Commands>Customize, then enter "Connections". Now search for "override connections", highlight it and press the key you want to operate this command with. In my case, FCPX would not let me choose the backslash key (the one in the same position as the "grave" or "tilde" key), and I had to duplicate the standard set. It works now.
Kind regards
Thank you so much , I had the exact same problem and your solution solved it :-)))
Grave key for non US keyboards
