• VEGAS Pro

  selecting tracks with the keyboard in track view

  Posted by Terence Kearns on October 18, 2012 at 3:01 am

  Can someone tell me if there is a keyboard shortcut I can use for switching/selecting tracks in track view? I couldn’t seem to find it in the Customize Keyboard dialog.

  Cheers.

  Graham Bernard replied 13 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 5 Replies
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  Graham Bernard

  October 18, 2012 at 7:02 am

  Hmmm, help me here. Do you want to :

  Select in Track Header:-

  Track1 then Track2 then Track3 or any variation/combination thereof?

  If you’re already at the Track Header at say Track2, then using the UP and DOWN arrows you can Navigate . . UP and DOWN. But you may want something more – maybe?

  Grazie
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  Graham Bernard

  October 18, 2012 at 7:27 am

  If you are at the on an Event already, then us this KB combo:-

  Alt+Shift+UP or DOWN Arrow

  Works extremely well.

  Grazie
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  Terence Kearns

  October 18, 2012 at 8:02 am

  Well you know how you can press UP and DOWN to navigate the tracks once the track header has focus? Well I want a shortcut key that will work all the time without having to click in the header first.

  If I have to click in the header first so that it can get focus, then there’s no point even having a keyboard shortcut. You’ve already had to reach for the mouse.

  I think a lot of these issues are stemming from the fact that keyboard shortcuts don’t work unless you have selected the relevant area of the application. This is tedious for a program which is otherwise super-efficient.

  Keyboard shortcuts should work globally. Perhaps there is a plugin which fixes this?

  For instance, I want the WASD keys to navigate events in the track view (regardless of where I clicked last). WASD is used in first-person shooters (FPS games) to navigate so it’s natural for anyone who’s ever played a FPS on a PC.
  (A=left, D=right, W=up, S=down). The arrow keys are already thoroughly used up for other (similar) navigation and I don’t want to change those. I want my left hand to navigate as well as my right (arrows).

  I just want to work faster.
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  Terence Kearns

  October 18, 2012 at 8:05 am

  Does not work for the default keyboard config in Vegas 12.

  It’s doing something else (not sure what it’s doing actually). It’s not switching tracks.
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  Graham Bernard

  October 18, 2012 at 2:38 pm

  Just rechecked in VP11 too. Working there.

  What do you mean : –

  [Terence Kearns] “Does not work for the default keyboard config in Vegas 12.”

  Please explain.

  Garzie

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