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  Mapping a menu function to keyboard

  Posted by Peter Groom on December 31, 2008 at 10:44 am

  HI everyone
  Id really like to map the meny function “render in to out” to the keyboard.
  Can anyone explain where im going wrong

  open keyboard
  select map foreign
  click the key where i want it to go to (stays purple)
  go to menu drop down

  but its dimmed out so i cant select it!!!

  Where am i going wrong
  Cheers
  Peter

  Ian Johnson replied 17 years, 4 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Jon Zanone

  December 31, 2008 at 1:33 pm

  Do you have a foreign keyboard? If not, don’t select it. Select the ‘button to menu’ radio button. Click the key on your keyboard. The cursor should turn into a little square. Go to the menu item you want to map – click on it. You are done. If you want to map items from the command pallette (cntrl + 3, or tools>command pallette) select the ‘button to button’ button (who’s got the button…)

  Jon

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  Peter Groom

  January 1, 2009 at 1:14 pm

  Thanks Jon
  Sorted
  Peter
  Have a good New Year
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  Ian Johnson

  January 1, 2009 at 7:17 pm

  Some menu items are context sensitive, so you have to set up the conditions before you can map it. In this case, you need a sequence in the timeline with In and Out points set to make Render In-Out selectable for mapping. There are some others like this, such as Load Filler which needs the source monitor to be the current active window before you can map it.

  Ian

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