Logging and 'alt' keyboard shortcut snags on windows 10?

[JQizzle]

I'm logging a lot of footage from talking head interviews. My workflow has historically been to paraphrase what's being talked about by adding timeline comments in Prelude which I then reference in Premiere.

On a Mac, to execute against that looks like this:

• Watch clip. Press "2". The text curser is now in the HUD display just above the timeline
• Log what's being said in the HUD while the playhead is playing through the timeline. Hold down OPTION while pressing spacebar or JKL to control the timeline while being able to type in HUD in case the talking head gets too far out ahead of you

In short: On a Mac, Option allows me to continue to control the timeline WHILE typing in the HUD.

And, according to all of documentation I can find (I've been doing a lot of googling), that same exact workflow should happen on a Windows machine as well, except you swap out Option with Alt.

Buuut, no matter what I do. If I press Alt and spacebar in Prelude with the HUD open, it doesn't control the playhead on the timeline, it opens this menu on the top left. Which, is obviously right in the way getting in any kind of flow with logging. Meanwhile Alt + JKL just make a "do not do that" noise and has no effect.

Any ideas? I've attempted to find a way to edit hotkeys inside of Prelude and have came up empty there. And have even attempted to turn off the "alt" shortcut for Windows in case the issue is at the OS level and is getting in the way of Prelude reacting to that keystroke. Oddly, Alt works as expected if I'm typing within the Marker Inspector on the top right. This is only an issue when I'm typing in an HUD which is where I'm typically doing 90% of my typing.

In my googling, this was the closest I could find to my issue:

Re: Using Prelude to collaborate

Any help is greatly appreciated!

[tanzeem]

Sorry for the inconvenience. I have forwarded the issue to core engineering team. They will look into it soon.

Thanks,

Tanzeem

[JQizzle]

I'm trying again. Am I the only person who uses prelude in this manner? No one else needs to control the playhead while typing in the HUD? If this is the case does anyone have a suggestion on a better approach for logging lots and lots of talking head interviews leaning into keyboard shortcuts?

[JQizzle]

Ok. This is very frustrating. Because guess what works as it should in Adobe Prelude CC Version 2.0.0 (459 (MC:218798)) ?

This feature.

So, to be clear. In Windows 10, using ALT as a modifier keyboard shortcut so a user can continue to control the timeline in HUD (with Alt+space or Alt+J,K,L) does NOT work in CC 2018  or CC 2017, but works in Adobe Prelude CC. How could this bug possibly be missed for this long? tanzeem​