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toggle keys trick
I was wondering if anyone has found a to make a key toggle a tool selection as opposed to switching to it, ideally the hand tool with the spacebar like the adobe products. It would be nice to move through the timeline or scrub in the viewer or canvas by simply holding down a key.
Thanks a ton in advance if you can give me a tip.
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[Jason Diebler] “You “can” move/scrub through the timeline with 1 key. Space bar plays. J, K, L keys give you forward, pause, reverse playback. Up + down jump to edits. Mouse scroll-ball scrubs (if you have a scroll- ball mouse). L/R Arrow keys move frame by frame. H gives you a hand. Home/end jumps to front/end of timeline. +/- expands/shrinks timeline or windows. You can find all your short cuts in Tools>Keyboard Layout or customize your own.
“Yeah, that’s what I meant, too.
bogiesan
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Hitting L repeatedly will increase scrubbing speed.
Grabbing the thumb on the bottom of the timeline will move the window.There is a huge library of keyboard commands that you can apply, modify, or create custom button bars from. See the manual.
bogiesan
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You “can” move/scrub through the timeline with 1 key.
Space bar plays. J, K, L keys give you forward, pause, reverse playback. Up + down jump to edits. Mouse scroll-ball scrubs (if you have a scroll- ball mouse). L/R Arrow keys move frame by frame. H gives you a hand. Home/end jumps to front/end of timeline. +/- expands/shrinks timeline or windows. You can find all your short cuts in Tools>Keyboard Layout or customize your own.
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Ah yes. I’m very experienced with keyboard commands. I guess my question was misinterpreted. I’m referring to a button that temporarily changes something while it is pushed but upon released returns to its normal state. Ie. while holding the spacebar down the pointer tool would temporarily turn into the hand tool and upon release it would return to the pointer tool. Adobe does this well in after effects, photoshop, illustrator…
Sorry for the confusion
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For the timeline, since I keep one hand on the mouse, holding down ‘Shift’ will allow you to scroll horizontally…if you have a mouse with a scroll wheel that is. I find myself using that all the time. The mighty mouse ball just isn’t the same.
Michael Gossen
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no, the keyboard can be customised of course but not to this extent ie not to create user defined function toggles … but the hand tool can be toggled on with “h” and off again with “a” (or whichever function is needed next) so all the control you need is there, but I guess not in the way you’re looking for I’m afraid
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Adobe Premiere is the only editing ap that I have used that has toggling keys like this. If I remember correctly Premiere can toggle Ripple/Roll and a few other tools and when you release the held down buttons you are left with the previously chosen tool, ie the selection arrow.
Not FCP though. Unfortunately, for now, we only have hard keys. Just remember, FCP is not the worst editing application out there. Hey, they should put that on the box!
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Thanks for the information. I’m just critiquing my editing and looking for ways to increase my speed and i’ve realized I spend a lot of time scrolling around my timeline and having to carefully select the scroll bar or switch to the hand tool eats up precious time. My work in after effects/photoshop feels so much freer because of this basic function with the spacebar/hand tool toggle.
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Well its not unique to Premiere, FCP can does this toggle tool key modifier thingy too (for example, hold down the option key when hovering over a clip overlay and your selection tool switches to pen tool) … its just not user definable. 🙁
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