Shortcuts to die for (whats your favorite)

[Kevin Monahan]

CNTRL-S. Solos a clip in a composite. Very nice…..
CNTRL-B. Clip visibility. Turn off a clip instead of losing render files on an entire track.
My Favorite?
I’ve mapped Composite Modes to CMD+OPT+ 1-9 on the numeric keypad.
A fast way to cycle through all the composite modes.
That tip’s in my book, of course. 🙂

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[Tom Ackroyd]

Just discovered this – not one shortcut but a few very useful ones that work together – to use a sequence as a source in a new sequence without hopping between timeline tabs copying and pasting:

Option load your sequence into the viewer.
In the viewer: up and down arrow between edit points, X to mark a clip or just plain old in & outs.
Command-F9 to insert, Command-F10 to replace – places the *original clip(s)* into your timeline, not a *nested clip* of the source sequence!!!

Just rocks. I’m back in Lightworks.

Tom Ackroyd

[Bret Williams]

I’ll bite.

One I use in a pinch…

Mark in, Mark out, Set autoselect tracks, Option+A

Highlights a section of the timeline you can copy any paste based on which tracks have autoselect on. Doesn’t copy the clips, but the range.

[Bret Williams]

I can always tell a former windows user. The key is option, not alt. True there is a little alt written on it, but it’s the option key.

It’s always surprising what is a new function to some. I can’t even image the software functioning without that key combo. How much money do you owe your clients for all the time you spent adjusting audio clips one by one? 😛

[Eli Mavros]

Ouch!

Eli Mavros

[Tom Ackroyd]

Kevin does that mean that numeric keypad numeral keys are different (separate function) to the numeral keys above the QWERTY row?

Tom Ackroyd

[Bret Williams]

Oh geez I’m just kidding. But the thought did cross my mind that I hoped his clients weren’t reading!

I remember when they added the audio levels adjustment. I think it was version 2. That’s why I thought of it. I was editing with producers over my shoulder with version 1.2 and I remember how I felt when they said that the levels were too low across different parts of the program. Now if it was the whole sequence, I could’ve nested it and raised the volume of just the nest. But when large sections weren’t just right, you had to go in and adjust every clip by hand. They were a little bewildered that that was the only way to do it. But it was. Especially for interview montages that involved music, VO, sot, sfx, and nat. You really couldn’t just copy and paste attributes either. And when working with DV, you couldn’t even ride analog levels on the deck or anything.

But when they added the cmd+option+l that has to be the biggest time saving improvement they ever did. Instantly I could do an audio mix in a few minutes instead of a few hours.

I don’t use multicam yet, but I’m sure some people will look back someday and wonder how they ever got along without it.

[Kevin Monahan]

[Tom Ackroyd] “Kevin does that mean that numeric keypad numeral keys are different (separate function) to the numeral keys above the QWERTY row”
Yes, they are totally different.

Kevin Monahan
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[Anders Haavie]

Well.. english is my second language.. and since it is written alt on the keyboard 🙂

Just for the record.. haven’t been using windows in maybe 15 years, but you are right.. I USED to be a windows user.

Anders

[Stuart Simpson]

Command Option W

Turning waveforms on and off is a lovely thing…

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