New FCPX Blog for Spanish speakers

Hey guys!

In case any of you are interested and don't know about it already, I recently started a blog for my own company Cut People: www.cutpeople.tumblr.com . It is written in Spanish, but I thought I should post about it here since there are several Spanish speaking members in the forum.

Cut People is a Final Cut Pro X workflow and integration company based in Madrid (Spain). You can learn more about us here: www.cutpeople.es



So yes, this is a corporate blog, but I'd like for it to be more than that, and hopefully become one of the best resources for all Spanish speaking people interested in Final Cut Pro X and post production on the Mac.

By the way, there are other great FCPX resources for Spanish speakers out there:

• Sites Finalcutpro.es and www.motionfx.es
  
• Finalcutargentina.com , Leo Hans excellent blog.
• Final Cut Pro Kitchen , another interesting blog.

But besides these great exceptions, there isn't many FCPX related info available for Spanish speakers online. So with this blog I'd like to contribute to fill that void and also give more visibility to the FCPX ecosystem as well as our company.

Let me know your thoughts in the comments! All the best,

Jesús
@jesus_edits

I don't speak Spanish, but curious and thanks to translate.google.com ...

Has a very professional look, and the story about 'alien' keyboards instantly caught my attention!
It's not alone diff. 'matching', lots of … whoo, how to phrase that? ... 'spontanous usability' gets lost.

My best/worst example:
Many shortcuts are to some degree 'logic', I/O=in/out, E = to the end, Q = qnnected …
or…
opt-[ or opt-] are choosen to mimic the yellow end/start line of a clip in timeline - perfect!

.... on my German keyboard I have to type opt-ß/opt-ü (??).
Regular Brackets ( ) are printed on shift-8/shift-9, but opt-shift-8 gives ˜ .... arghghgh!
opt-5, opt-6 would be [ and ] …

I'm seriously considering buying an English keyboard just for editing .... :woohoo:

Hi Karsten

If you are going to buy a keyboard, send a message to the great folks over at kbcovers.com they print onto the keyboard the commands, they really do a great job, I am sure they would be happy to assist with printing the German FCPX commands onto the extended wired keyboard.

After all I am sure you are not the only German speaking editor.

Justine

MsJustine wrote: … kbcovers.com . would be happy to assist with printing the German FCPX commands onto the extended wired keyboard.…

nice clue, thanx for sharing.
But…
a) The Mothership offers a very nice ' German FCPX Keyboard ' …

b) my rant wasn't less meant about 'memorizing' the position of a specific keycombo - indeed, that could be solved by re-matching keys, as Jesús writes in his blog (plus posting it kindly as a ready-made DL!).

My example with the brackets should illustrate a diff. issue:
there's no printed [ or ] on my keyboard = that could be solved by a cover; AND it is 'physically' matched by OS to diff. keys than the English keyboard.

So, that's what I meant with 'spontanous usability' - diff. task, diff. example, perhaps explaining what I want to express:
$ is - as on any other keyboard - shift-4
£ is an 'option', so opt-shift-4
€ is an 'option' or E(uro), so opt-E

but
shift-8/9 is ( and )
opt-shift-8/9 gives ˜ and · ............

this does a cover not cover
(note2myself: no play-of-words-in foreign languages.....)

Hi Karsten,

Thanks for the kind words.

I didn't know there was an official German FCPX Keyboard. It isn't available in Spanish for sure.

For what I see, even in the official German keyboard, the mapping is very weird because they did't match the original position in the US keyboard (which makes more sense), they just matched the characters... which is a bad way to go about it in my opinion.

For example, Plus and Minus symbols are very far away in German and Spanish keyboards... Makes more sense for the Zoom In and Zoom Out commands to be closer together. Who cares what the symbol really is? The important thing is the layout, the relative position of the keys. At least for those special keys... I agree that with regular keys, the letter has to be tied to the shortcut. But those match anyway so there is no issue with that.

If I were German, I wouldn't buy the German FCPX keyboard. I would buy the English keyboard and re-assign the commands in FCPX to match the layout. I know it's annoying to have a keyboard in which some of the characters don't match. But that's the best solution I can come up with, until they create proper foreign keyboard and default command sets to match inside FCPX. I sent my suggestion to Apple but I don't think it's an easy thing to change, since it involves keyboard manufacturers as well...

Anyway, thanks for your feedback. And if Google Translate works OK for you, keep reeding!

Jesús
@jesus_edits

JPM Editor wrote: …, the mapping is very weird because they did't match the original position in the US keyboard (which makes more sense), they just matched the characters... which is a bad way to go about it in my opinion.…

yeah... we have to admit: keyboards are an invention way before software-shorcuts :woohoo:

There are other 'mysteries':
undo is in German mapping cmd-Z => easy to memo, backwards=zurück
undo is in English cmd-Z (??) either… not cmd-U
And:
On a German keyboard, the Z has hardwired switched its postion with Y (qwertz vs qwerty).. which craetes a lot of fun, when you launch a Mac in some maintanance mode, and you're prompted to type a Y(es) or N(o), and you have to hit a Z to conform!! :silly:

No, for learning FCPX, or as a not-so-regular user like me, switching to English UI and an English keyboard would be best practice. Not to forget, all valueable tuts are in English..

… when I remember correctly, the first year, FCPX wasn't avail in Spanish at all! never understood that, the Spanish market (language, not country) is much, much(o) bigger than the German.... some decisions at Cupertino are just … odd.

Best of luck for your blog!!