Convert Avid keyboard settings into FCP?

Hey all. Does anybody have an idea about how to export my Avid Adrenaline keyboard layout settings and import it into FCP? I prefer FCP, but I use Avid at work, and am having a tough time keeping up with the differences in hotkey commands. Any ideas?
-Rob

I used to have to go back and forth two...and it took a little bit to adjust my thinking each time. I haven't found a way to map all the Avid commands to the FCP board..because they really have different commands for most things, as they both do things differently. What I ended up doing is mapping both with similar commands in the same spots. But the trim commands, effects commands and more all ALL different.
Thank goodness I am only on one machine now.
Shane

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I had transitioned into this issue off an older thread I had, with a different topic. So I figured it was smarter to just make it it's own thread, since it's become it's own issue.
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I've now so far tried this with 4 custom presets, and while all of them are able to export and play / look fine on my desktop..... none of them import correctly into FCP6. They'll play as clips... but completely stuttery and unusable. I'll then drop them into a sequence, and they'll play for about 3 seconds and then I'll get this message:
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One or more frames were dropped during playback.
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- Turning off 'Unlimited RT'
- Lowering your compression data rate.
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Now, I've also gotten a message about the projects needing to have the same capture preset, but I can't replicate it at the time of this post. Though, I'm sure this is probably the root of the problem.
Here's why: In AMC3, with my custom export preset, I notice that Avid supports the DVCPRO codecs, but doesn't have the exact one I'm using in FCP6.
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DV/DVCPRO - NTSC (this is the one I'm using, and have tweaked the frame rate to 23.98)
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DVCPRO HD 1080p25 (this one is close...)
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DVCPRO HD 720i50
DVCPRO HD 720i60
DVCPRO50 - NTSC
DVCPRO50 - PAL
Now, you'll remember that my sequence preset in FCP6 is DVCPRO HD - 1080p24.
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Still no cigar though.
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Just some more backstory:
This was a two day shoot.
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- On Day 2 of the shoot (Sunday), we got the camera we wanted all along for the shoot -- the Panasonic HVX200. Therefore, all of Day 2 was shot on P2 cards, converted on a Macbook Pro, and then put onto an external harddrive. This was about 80 gigs of media.
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Now, I just checked this out on the Sunday footage as well (the Panasonic P2 card footage which wasn't converted, but imported directly into FCP6, without need for the Avid as the middle-man), and I see the same faint lines on this as well.
Both pieces of media (the original Panasonic footage and the converted Sony footage) are at 29.97FPS. Both are at the same Compressor now (DVCPRO HD 1080p30) per your instructions . Meaning, the Pansonic footage brought into FCP6 had that as a preset from the moment I installed the program and was asked to choose my project settings..... and once you explained to me how to look for this, I then sought to match it on the Avid end, and changed the EXPORT settings on the Avid files to that codec.
So both sources medias match now in FCP6. They also play now without stutter.
But they both do have those lines. Albeit, faint, but I'm concerned about them now.
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And if so... will I then have to recapture all the Panasonic footage back in? (I'd lose all my log notes and shot names).
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