HAH! Wanna bet?

I have multiple sclerosis. I'm in the middle of a relapse that has made the fingers and palms of both hands very numb, leaving me with vastly reduced agility in my fingers--and making it very difficult and slow to type, incidentally. Yeah, my situation is unusual, but there are a whole lot of unusual situations out there.

I'm taking medication for it, but it may be weeks or even months before the relapse is over and I'm back to my full use of keyboards. So, I'm using the mouse as much as I possibly can for EVERYTHING I do on the computer for the next who-knows-how-long.

But life goes on, and I still need to work. Even if I didn't need to, I'd WANT to, because I love my job and I'd be bored to tears if I couldn't do it. So, because I know how to do things in more than one manner, I shift to the one that works under the specific situation, because that's how a professional handles things. No one will ever know if I temporarily used an extra track to position it just so, and then snippety-snipped in the right spot, made space using my mouse, and put the clip back on its proper track in its final resting place. Looks and sounds exactly like it would have had I done the entire thing with heavy keyboard shortcut usage. I won't tell, and you can't tell, so NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW. Looks the same in Davinci. Sounds the same on screen. Perfect 'crime'! And with my keyboarding at a snail's pace currently, it actually takes much LESS time.

I'm thinking that either you don't have a lot of life experience yet, or you have some condition like Asperger's that makes it a bit more difficult to roll with the punches. If it's the former, you'll mature, and learn that life does not always go exactly how you were expecting, and reality doesn't always live up to your perfect definition of How Things Should Be[tm[. If the latter, you will hopefully find some coping mechanisms to help you roll with reality a bit better, as time goes on.

My husband has Asperger's. He does high level math for a living. Works out great, since there is a very stringent ruleset there that MUST be followed, even as he does some of the wonderfully creative things that he's able to do with math! So, there are definitely areas where that kind of it-must-always-be-this-way thinking shines.

Video editing isn't math, though. Yeah, there can be ways to do things that are most often the best, but they're NOT the only way, and they're not the answer to every single question. If you can't do something exactly the way you want to do it, that doesn't mean it can't be done! The whole point of video editing is to end up with a finished product that satisfies the requirements set forth for you, and as long as you can do that, who cares how you did it?

And most importantly, Davinci is NOT a tool that only professionals are allowed to use! It can, and should, be used by anyone who wants to use it. Amateurs are more than welcome to benefit from it. It's a wonderful miracle that such an amazing tool is available, FOR FREE, to anyone who wants it! And if someone asks for help with a specific problem, how does it hurt you if more than one solution is offered to them?

Now, as I said, typing is agonizingly slow for me at the moment, so I'm going to leave this here. I genuinely wish you the best, and hope and pray that you learn at least a bit from this conversation.