Am I missing the obvious - I re mapped my keyboad so that the "]"  key opened the FX editor as per Xpro.  In Xpro, hitting this key again closed this window but this behavior isn't true of MC?  What am I missing?

Hi,

Try the "Source/Record Mode" button to get out of FX Mode.  I think it's the Y key, but I'm not in front of a machine to check.

good luck,
Carl

 Thanks.  Yes going to Source/Record mode does close it but I was more looking to see if the FX Editor could be toggled on or off with the same key as per Xpro whilst staying in source record mode?  Your suggestion is my current work around (not really a work around - more a modified way I do it now!)

You can also map the Source/Record editing toolset to your keyboard. 

Toolsets will allow you to have any windows you like open and close with a selection from the Toolset menu or with a click of a button.

First, select Toolsets > Source/Record.  Move the windows around as you want.  Then select Toolsets > Save current.  Map it to a keyboard button if you like.  Then, open the effect editor.  Now, when you click the keyboard button or selectthe toolset from the menu, all other open windows will close and you'll go back to your settings.

Then you can setup Digitizing, Effects, Color Correction, and other toolsets to have just the windows you want open when you want.  Experiment a bit...you'll learn to love them!

 Yeh - thats the first thing I re-did when I upgraded.  Along with that was putting the keyboard back to the keystrokes I was used to in Xpro (apart from just being used to it, the keyboard is printed with Xpro shortcuts so it made sense to retain the same functions - and there were only a few that needed re-mapping).

Just curious as to why, using Xpro, opening and closing the FX editor window from the source record layout could be done with 1 key (default "]") but when this same function is mapped in MC to the keyboard it will only open the Effects Editor window and not close it again.  Mapped workspaces are my way of working anyway but it used to be handy to tap "]" , adjust an effect then tap it again to return to normal edit mode.  Also its slower (being nit picky here).  Toggling the Effect Editor on and off (or closing the Effect Editor with the mouse), and the bin that sits below it isn't refreshed by the PC - it is exactly as you left it before opening the editor with all thumbnails visible.  Using the "change workspace" technique, the Effect Editor when gone leaves a part of the screen that the vid card needs to refresh before you can see the clips.  Now its not a long wait - less than half a second but its not instant and more messy looking.  This is a really, really small thing but I wasn't sure if I was missing something or the "toggle" simply doesn't work in MC?  1 point to Xpro in this case!

BTW more ram helps but its still not instant!  One thing I noticed instantly with MC on my old Dual Xeon is that it is more resource hungry.  Bins are slower to refresh.  When opening Avid FX from within MC I find that when using larger textures (4000x4000 pixel maps) it would come up with "out of memory" errors that the same actual effect never had in Xpro 5.8/FX.  Increased RAM to 4G and used the bat file to enable it and all is sweet again and snappy.