Little glitch in the Apple Pro Training Series - Motion 4

Specifically for Mark Spencer!
Mark, I am learning a lot from your book and you may already know about this one but I wanted to pass it on anyway. I could not get your steps on page 125 or pages 150 to work correctly. I just couldn't get the titles to line up properly with the video clips using the shortcuts shift - I and I or Shift -O and O. Then I realized you had us set the Default Layer Duration for Still Images and Layers in the Preferences for 1 second on page 78. Yes, I know you warned us to check this as the setting would be saved for future projects but I of course forgot about it and I am willing to bet so did a lot of people. I changed this setting back to the "Use Project Duration" and now all works well. Hopefully I didn't miss a page where you instructed us to set this preference but I don't think I did. By the way, is there a better forum for posting this types of things?
Thnks

You need to change your default keyboard setup so that the function keys drive software option. In System Preference, under Keyboard & Mouse, under Keyboard. This default behavior is new with this new keyboard that was not out when the book was published.

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