Undoing in Final Cut Express

Have you ever tried Apple’s Finalcut Express? The software itself is quite amazing. But when it comes to undoing (Edit -> Undo), that’s where the trouble begins.

The CMD + Z shortcut is not associated to Undo!!! It is not!!!

Instead, the shortcut for Undo is CMD + W… And guess what, CMD + Z is for closing the active window. Now I’m asking:

Why the hell are those shortcut associated to their normal command? Z for undoing, and W for closing active window!

But apart from that, this is an excellent software.

There are 7 comments yet. Don't be shy.

1. On April 18th, 2005 at 12:32 pm, Datrio said :Datrio's gravatar

Closing? Great, don’t tell me you accidently closed the window? I think I hit ctrl+z too many times to get used to such a change… Well, guess that means no Apple for me ;)

2. On April 18th, 2005 at 1:24 pm, Remi said :Remi's gravatar

It’s Command + Z, not CTRL + Z ;-)

3. On April 18th, 2005 at 4:15 pm, Y-Blue said :Y-Blue's gravatar

It’s associtated to the AZERTY keyboard (in Europe), where the “Z” takes the place of the “W”. Consequently, select all is CMD + Q !

Maybe nobody could tell why…

4. On April 18th, 2005 at 4:16 pm, Datrio said :Datrio's gravatar

…Command, Ctrl, whatever, sounds the same.

…Well, not really, but you get the idea :P

5. On April 18th, 2005 at 10:11 pm, Joe said :Joe's gravatar

Haha, we were just talking about CTRL + Z on IRC…

«@septor» if i ever quit IRC without any sort of warning
«@septor» it's cause i hit ctrl z by mistake
«&Joe» haha what's ctrl z do?
«~Kevo» kills term
«@septor» i think it's the same thing as 'kill'
«&Joe» haha
* @septor needs to find a way to disable it

6. On April 20th, 2005 at 12:27 am, septor said :septor's gravatar

Yeah, that owns me all the time. Maybe C* + Z is a Unix thing for “Kill”.

7. On April 24th, 2005 at 12:35 pm, bandi said :bandi's gravatar

ctrl+Z for undo? no… the good old alt+backspace, like in the old Borland C++
… oh yes, thoze great old times….

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