Mighty Mouse and Wireless Keyboard with Final Cut Studio

Hello,
I'm looking into picking up the Mighty Mouse and the Wireless Keyboard, but I've noticed that the keyboard has some set backs.
It's missing the right side. This bothers me because I use the arrows very frequently to navigate through my timeline - they're very helpful for several reasons. Will I be able to assign keys on my wireless keyboard to do the same actions as these arrows.
Please let me know if any out there has any input at all. Also, let me know if there is anything else that I may be missing before I commit a consumer error.
Thank you,
Trey Vollmer

treyvon wrote:
I'm looking into picking up the Mighty Mouse and the Wireless Keyboard, but I've noticed that the keyboard has some set backs.
It's missing the right side. This bothers me because I use the arrows very frequently to navigate through my timeline - they're very helpful for several reasons. Will I be able to assign keys on my wireless keyboard to do the same actions as these arrows.
If you're talking about the Aluminum (super-thin) wireless keyboard, it certainly has arrow keys.
What's missing is the numeric keypad and the home, end, page up/down buttons.
The numeric keypad is a kind of a big deal for those of us who make use of the number pad key shortcuts to disable/enable AutoSelect (Command-Numeric Zero toggles all Video Tracks, Option-Numeric Zero toggles all Audio Tracks). OK, so that describes maybe 15 people out of the millions of users. But, thankfully, you can use Button Bars to replace those functions.
The numeric keypad is also important if you use the Multicam keyboard layout, but that can be replaced by Button Bars.
Don't like the mouse and keyboard that you have now?
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