Automating clip selection in viewer

[Kevin Monahan]

Shift > Right Arrow x 3, Mark O
Should work on multiple Viewers.

Kevin Monahan
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[Kevin Monahan]

Shift > Right Arrow x 3, Mark O
Should work on multiple Viewers.

Kevin Monahan
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[Matt Callac]

that’ll give you duration of 3.01, you’d need to hit left arrow once with no shift if you need 3 seconds exaclty.
-mattyc

[Kevin Monahan]

Correct! Me of all people should’ve caught that. I think the poster wants to do this all with a single key stroke. Simply cannot be done.

Kevin Monahan
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[Matt Callac]

Hopefully no one who owns your book saw that, or else you might lose some street cred. Oh, drat, I have your book. Good thing I’m in no position to give or recieve street cred.
-mattyc

[Kevin]

Thanks for your prompt responce. I guess the answer is it can’t be done with a single keystroke.

Can I get any closer to a single keystroke than manually marking the ins and outs?

Also is there any way I can copy to the timeline from both a primary and a new viewer. Right now I am aple to “p” into the timeline from the primary but I have to drag and insert from any other viewers. With several hundred clips it gets a little hard on the wrists sometimes?

Many thanks again

Kevin

[Martin Baker]

– Press i key to mark in
– Press Tab key
– Enter “3.” and hit return key

That will give you a marked duration of 3 secs. It isn’t possible to use the F9, F10 etc KB shortcuts from secondary viewers.

If you really are doing this hundreds of times then you could always look into using a macro program:
https://www.keyboardmaestro.com/main/
https://www.quickeys.com/products/quickeys.html

Martin
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[Nick Meyers]

you can do almost anything with a single keystroke if you use QuicKeys.

i;ve started using it, and it;s great for repetitive tasks such as this.

cheers,
nick

[Kevin]

Wow,

I didn’t know Quickeys would work inside the FCP interface. This cuold well be the answer.

I will try it out.

Thank you for posting back.

Peace,

K.