Re: Smoke 2013 Changes Everything

[Walter Soyka] "n the example above, JKL is just too damn hard to do if you're right-handed and are wielding a Wacom pen. Much as Mac OS hotkeys are built for the left hand while the right hand is on the mouse, most of the common Smoke hotkeys seem to assume your left hand on the keyboard and your right hand operating the tablet.
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Being a lefty, I always find this a little discouraging, and yet I'm used to it.

[Walter Soyka] "Personally, I think there's a lot of value in learning an app's native hotkeys. When functionality doesn't match 100% from app to app, I find close-but-no-cigar key bindings to be absolutely maddening. In my opinion, it's better to go through the pain of learning the new shortcuts once and make new muscle memory than discovering over and over again that a particular key doesn't work quite the way you expect every time you hit it.
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I agree completely. I generally remap sparingly, and only after I've gotten the default down.


[Walter Soyka] "t was mainly a response to that tired FCPX/professional argument that got drudged up again, and in a thread that has nothing to do with FCPX to boot.

We need to move past this. It's needlessly divisive, and we have far more interesting things to talk about.
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Agreed.


I'm curious what you think of the Symphony cross-grade in the light of this.