what are the most used commands in xpro/mc and mapped it on your keyboard?

ja!

here are my function keys mapped:

f2 match frame
f3 find bin
f4 make subclip
f5 remove effect
f6 title tool
f7 freeze frame
f8 add locator
f9   source/record toolset
f10 effect toolset
f11 audio toolset
f12 capture toolset

I'll see if I can do this from memory.  I use these almost every day:

F2-- Match Frame

F3-- Step into Effect

F4-- Step out of Effect

F5-- Render at Position

F6-- Remove Effect

F7-- Safe Title Grid

F8-- Title Tool

F9-- Editing Workspace

F10-- Audio Workspace

F11-- Capture Workspace

Shift F9--Effects Workspace

Shift F2-- Media Tool

Shift F3-- Hardware

Shift F5-- Expert Render

Shift Z-- Import

Shift X-- Export

Shift End-- Collapse Tracks

Shift Page Up-- Video Mixdown

Shift Page Down-- Audio Mixdown

Page Up-- Add Locator

Page Down-- Find Bin

Tab-- Subclip

Shift A--Add Filler to start

Shift F--Load Filler

 

That's about it!

 

Michael.

 

I have moved full screen playback to my escape key and the sample plot to my tilda key.  Handy so I can click them on and off without thinking about it.

F2   Previous Locator                  Shift F2    Fit to Fill
F3   Next Locator                               F3    Find frame
F4   Make sub clip                              F4    Reverse Match
F5   Match Frame                               F5    A 5
F6   Find Bin                                       F6    A 6
F7   Replace Edit                                F7   A 7
F8   Toggle S/R                                  F8   A 8
F9   Render Effects                             F9   Dual split
F10 Motion Effect                              F10 Transition Cnr Display
F11 Remove effect                             F11 Workspace 1  16 by 9
F12 Title Tool                                    F12 workspace 2    4 by 3

Shift 1  V 1                        Shift 2  V 2
Shift 3  V 3                        Shift 4  V 4
Shift 5 V 5                         Shift 6  V 6
Shift 7  V 7                        Shift 8  V8
Shift 9  V 9                        Shift -  Trim side B
Shift =  Trim side A               

Shift Q    Mark Locators                    Shift W  Slip left
Shift E    Slip Right                             Shift R  Extend
Shift T     Gang                                  Shift Y  Top
Shift U    Tail                                     Shift P  Set Font
Shift [     Play length toggle                Shift ]  Effect Editing
Shift A  Go to Audio in                     Shift S Go to Audio out
Shift D  Mark Audio in                     Shift F Mark Audio out

ESC  Toggle S/R timeline                      ~    Capture toolset
Page Up    Source record toolset          Page Down CC toolset
Up arrow    More detail                       Down arrow less detail

good enough for a sticky for a while.. great thread!

Andrewaction - do you use a mouse???

Just goes to prove that you dont need to buy one of thsoe fancy printed, overpriced keyboards.

i don't like the keyboards, I bought one and used it for a year, while you may work quickly at first, I became dependent on the keyboard printed shortcuts rather than actually memorizing the shortcuts.  I think those keyboards hurt people trying to memorize shortcuts, at least in my case.  also the more i work in xpress pro the more i begin to want to change the shortcuts to fit my workflow better and then that becomes pointless with those keyboards

good stuff!

How are you all getting those options in order to map them to shortcuts? I don't remember seeing a lot of them in the command palette options...

And I was real surprised to find a Logitech Avid keyboard at a thrift store (!) for $3.99 the first week I bought Avid... ya never know what you'll find at a thrift store!

It would be great to have those shortcuts- how do you get them?

thanks-

Ev

www.evanandnature.com

 

evansmalley:

It would be great to have those shortcuts- how do you get them?

I guess some are MC specific but most are available in Pro through the 3 different ways the Command pallet you lets you map things to your keyboard

It's funny I have all the F buttons as colour clip options!

 

Oh and hi all first post :D

How are you all getting those options in order to map them to shortcuts? I don't remember seeing a lot of them in the command palette options...

In XPro, (5.1.6, for me) how do you map some of these commands to keys- I think some of these are not in command pallette- am I wrong?

I sure would like to find out how to do these- I love shortcuts!-

Ev

Open your Keyboard, open your Command Palette (Ctrl+3), then click Menu to Button Reassignment.  Now you can click the button on the keyboard you want to map (say Page Up), and you can choose a menu command to go there--say go to File-->Import.  Import will now be mapped to Page Up!  Rinse and repeat as necessary.

 

Michael.

is thread is cool sharing your shortcut keys and applying it to mine made me realize on faster editing!

thanks!!

On the command palet yu have to possibility to map button to button and menu to button. That gives you all possibilities to map. And when you open your keyboard setting just hit shift to be able to map keys and menus to shift_key combinations

Not sitting at my Avid right now, but I'll try to pull the main ones from memory too. Here goes:

F2 - Add Locator
F3 - Previous Locator
F4 - Next Locator
F5 - Match Frame                             Shft F5 - Reverse Match Frame
F6 - Find Bin                                    Shft F6 - Find Script

ESC - Toggle Sample Plot on/off
TAB - Toggle Src/Rcd in Timeline

Shft R - Render In to Out
Shft T - Title Tool
Y - Quick Transition
U - Remove Effect
Shft I - Trim Heads
Shft O - Trim Tails (Incredible timesavers!)
P - Extend Edit                                 Shft P - Make subcip
[ - Effect Editor
] - Trim mode
Shft [ - Trim A Side
Shft ] - Trim B Side
A - Rewind                                       Shft A - Previous Edit
S - Fast Forward                               Shft S - Next Edit
Shft G - Gang Sync
H - Add Edit
Shft Z - Add Script Mark
Shft B - Replace Edit (Most used key on the keyboard)
N - Add Keyframe
M - Toggle Quad View Multicame mode
Up Arrow - Less Detail                     Down Arrow - More Detail
Shift Up Arrow - Previous Camera
Shift Down Arrom - Next Camera (multicam function)

Generally I try to map the keys to something that makes sense to me. For instance, since marking in and out are already mapped to the I and O keys, it made perfect sense to me to add a shift modifier and map the Trim To Head and the Trim To Tail commands to those keys.  Also, since the Overwrite Edit function is already mapped to the B key, the best thing I ever did was learn to use the Replace Edit function and map it to the Shift B key.

Great thread!

Chris Conlee