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Shortcuts to die for (whats your favorite)
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Furiously scribbling down notes….thanks for this post!
Doug
Takin’ my first bite of the Apple!
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this is great.
cmnd+option+m = edit marker
very handy.
d.
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option double click will open more than one viewer window. very kool.
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‘option double click will open more than one viewer window. very kool.’
Indeed it is however i have never been able to edit from this second viewer into the timeline from the keyboard (it always puts the clip from the main source viewer into the timeline) it only works if you drag and drop unless some one knows how to do it from the keyboard, anyone ?
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My simplest but most effective and frequently used key combo in an edit session is SHIT+Z to zoom to the whole timeline then a quick tap of the Z key to activate the zoom tool to zoom a different area of the timeline. Very fast access to anything in the timeline. Clients love it vs. Media100.
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My fav I use all the time is ggg, hilighting just a portion of a clip to do a test render on that section. Also, g, hilighting a bunch of stacked clips edit points & extending them with numeric keypad or e key.
Calvin.
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The ones I love are Shift-iand Shift-o – go to in or out, x – Mark Clip, Option-A that was mentioned above, Shift-X and Shift-V – Ripple Copy/Paste, v, u to select an edit and toggle between trim modes and then square brackets to do the trim, e – Extend Edit, q to toggle between Viewer and Canvas, f – Match Frame, F11 – Replace, Shift-F11 – Fit to Fill.
A quick way to trim away the head or the tail of the clip up or down of your current frame is x, i for tail or o for head and the Del or Shift-Delete.
When you are lost on your timeline – zoomed in on selection instead of the playhead just type Right or Left Arrow once.
When you need Slug but some video is in the Viewer Command-W Command-1
Autoselect shortcuts are very helpful too, much better than track targeting ones though I use either all the time.
I hate Command-Shift-A to Deselect All and remap it back to Command-D immediately
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I was asking for F9-F11 shortcuts working from the topmost viewer, not the oldest one since FCP 1.2.5. Too obscure to get enough votes in Cow’s regular Top Ten feature requests poll.
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i have just written about this elsewhere, but thought it may be useful here too. while it’s not keyboard related, i find that a combo of the mighty mouse and usb-overdrive help streamline my working, since i can map keystrokes to any of the four button-press options available, and set them up differently for seperate applications. so things like shift+z and command+option+q (my export using quicktime conversion shortcut) are available on the mouse. also makes scrubbing in the viewer and canvas possible with the scroll wheel, which any scroll-wheel mouse will do – just as with moving parameter sliders, pointed out above.
customising the keyboard is great, and i wish this was available in soundtrack pro. i have mapped / to toggle the link function, since i find shift+l too tricky (or i’m too lazy), and . on the numeric keypad is mapped to the ggg shortcut described earlier. i also cycle through the composite modes with mapped keystrokes. control+v is nifty for slicing everything at that point, audio and video over all tracks.
a final great tip for anyone who doesn’t RTFM is that when in the canvas you want to nudge a selected layer, hold option and use the directional arrows to move it. adding shift will move it more. this also works in the timeline, although it shifts the clip up/down to the next layer if it’s open.
Learning something new everyday
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[Deditster] “this is great.
cmnd+option+m = edit marker
very handy.
d.”
Don’t forget if you have navigated to a marker already just hitting m will edit it.
I do this all the time prepping for DVD. “mm”, type marker name, click “add chapter marker”, enter, on to the next.
If anyone knows a shortcut for the “edit marker” dialog box to “add chapter marker” please let me know. I’m sick of mousing to the button…!
Good thread.
Tom Ackroyd
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