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The installation of the two inits was uneventful and so far I have yet to encounter any conflicts.

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The iMedia does require the installation of a Control Panel and a USB driver Extension. The Classic keyboard just plugs into your USB port and behaves exactly like a native Macintosh keyboard. Besides the price difference between the two keyboards, the only major difference is that the iMedia keyboard sports some extra programmable function buttons at the top of the keyboard for even more customization on the user end.

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As stated above, Post Op assembles two customized Final Cut Pro dedicated keyboards, both of which use hardware constructed by venerable (in this industry, anyway) hardware peripheral manufacturer Macally. That said, let's take a look at the two keyboards here. Eventually you go to another workstation that doesn't have the board and you look like a pro as you scoot around the application without touching the drop-down menus. This way you get to work and learn at top speed. Why turn to page 458 and scan when you can simply look down and see the clue right there? Do this three times and you don't look anymore. Time and sweat is where that comes from and there is no substitute.Ī customized keyboard facilitates this.

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Reading the Appendix of the Final Cut Pro manual will tell you what the key stroke does, but it won't burn that knowledge into your cerebral cortex. The customized keyboard really does facilitate this learning. You'd be surprised how many FCP users out there don't know what the J-K-L keys do. And if you are new to an application, it can take many moons before you know even the rudimentary keystrokes. But it can take a while to get used to the keystroke commands. Any Macintosh keyboard will do the same thing. Of course, you don't NEED the custom keyboard for this. You really got the sense that you were driving the application and that your editing was completely unobstructed by searching through menus.

The Avid keyboard, on the other hand, looked and functioned more like an edit controller. Media 100 also offered such a custom keyboard years back, but for the asking price, you got very few custom keys, which didn't make it a very good buy. The Avid configured keyboard is awash with words and glyphs on each key describing what functions are enabled with each key stroke. Avid has been configuring them for years, reasoning that most dedicated editing stations will not be used for writing articles and reviews. It's a pretty simple concept, and it's not a new one either. For those unfamiliar with dedicated keyboards, essentially what you have is a standard QWERTY keyboard which has had its normal black and white key buttons removed and replaced with color coded keys that display the special keystroke commands each key will enable when used with FCP. Such a product is the Final Cut Pro dedicated keyboard assembled and configured by Post Op. I also wrote in that other review that I have a skeptical feeling whenever I see peripherals that seek to do quickly what I have taken years to internalize. Its part of my typing style now and there's no getting around it. I constantly screw up each time I have occasion to use a real live typewriter. After a while, the keystrokes really become part of your typing experience. You just can't work for years with a platform like Apple's and not end up internalizing those keystrokes that speed up your workflow. I have written in another review that I considered myself somewhat of a honcho when it comes to keyboard shortcuts for Final Cut Pro and other Macintosh applications. Post Op also offers special keyboards for other non-linear editing applications such as Media 100 and Premiere. The other is the special Final Cut Pro iMedia EZ keyboard for 159.95 (hereafter referred to as iMedia) that contains extra programmable function keys in addition to the Function Key set that comes with the standard Extended Apple keyboard. One model is the Final Cut Pro Classic EZ keyboard for 139.95 (hereafter referred to as Classic), a standard Macally USB Extended keyboard for Macintosh with special color coded keys for FCP keystroke commands. There are currently two models available.

This review concerns the Post Op Final Cut Pro EZ custom keyboards. Special iMedia Final Cut Pro EZ keyboard for $159.95 Review - Post-Op Video's EZ Keyboard for Final Cut Proįinal Cut Pro EZ Macally USB Extended keyboard for $139.95