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mark2ain wrote:
Yes, I see that the keyboard shortcut allows me to add an edit with the mouse. The reason I keep calling that counter intuitive is that to me the purpose of a keyboard shortcut is precisely so I don't have to use the mouse.
I hear you, but many of our users are beginners who don't think to use a keyboard shortcut. They see a picture of a razor blade in the Tools pane and reach for that. We have a lot of new users who find Premiere Pro amongst the other applications in the Creative Cloud, they might be totally new to editing and will find the razor tool more suitable for them. We also have a lot of users that are coming in from Final Cut Pro 7 where they are used to having both a razor tool and and Add Edit keyboard shortcut. As you might imagine, it is difficult to please all these people in addition to professional editors used to other applications.
mark2ain wrote:
There are a few other functions Premier lacks which for the work I usually do -- dramatic narrative editing -- are more important to me than whether or not a silly shortcut key is useful. If I were using Premier for that sort of project, I'd be visiting this forum more often.
Please do share. We have dynamic trimming tools in CS6 which blow the doors off other NLEs in many respects. These are great tools for fine-tuning dialogue scenes. If we don't have the functions you are looking for, I'd like to know about them so we can get some feature requests written up.