Comments on: #06: Remap Your Keyboard!

By: Gin

Gin — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 23:15:00 +0000

I always map PLAY TO OUT to 7. great for checking if the Out point’s correct.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 10:48:00 +0000

The keyboard looks different from mine , I think it is beautiful.

By: Avid Media Composer Tips

Avid Media Composer Tips — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:51:58 +0000

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By: lpglycerine

lpglycerine — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 12:47:08 +0000

Sweet man, thank you so much for the tutorials!

Here are some shortcuts I love:
Turning on the Timeline setting for "Show Marked Waveforms" and then remapping
"Audio Data"->"Sample Plot" from the timeline fast menu to the keyboard. Then when I want to see the audio between two points I just mark an in and out and hit the shortcut button.

CTRL + Tab cycles through the windows in the Avid.

Mark an In and Out in your timeline, then press ALT + CUT (Scissors). It will cut the material out of the timeline and place the subsequence into your source monitor. Similar results with ALT + LIFT and ALT + CLIPBOARD

By: Lu Nelson

Lu Nelson — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:50:32 +0000

Another comment, because I discovered this today: if you use option in combination with tops and tails, it trims the shortest selectable segment — similar to the difference between T and option-T…

By: avidscreencast

avidscreencast — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:00:54 +0000

You're absolutely right! I normally work on a PC, so I never noticed that it does indeed not work on a Mac. Weird.

And I agree wholeheartedly on mapping the numeric keypad and Ctrl/Cmd. Actually, the way FCP does it is incredibly powerful. Oh, well… ;)

By: Marc

Marc — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:16:33 +0000

Hi,
Interesting and of course some things I didn't know.
The right time to 're arange'my keyboard settings.
Thanks!

By: Lu Nelson

Lu Nelson — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:31:22 +0000

Mmm, yeah. You're right, although option-U, at least on the Mac, has a funny behaviour: you have to hold option and hit U twice, to get back in to last trim. I read that about it before on Splice Here, and forgot. I thought it wasn't working but double tap works.

I wish there was a way to map the number-pad keys though! And to control the option- and command- keys!

By: avidscreencast

avidscreencast — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:06:17 +0000

Very good suggestions! Especially FF/REW, which are not mapped to the keyboard by default -- I never understood the benefit of the way MC does the "Go to next edit and enter trim mode". I have them mapped to A/S, because I "grew up" with Avid.

I wonder though, why don't you simply hit ALT-U to reselect the last trim?

Bye,
Christian

P.S. Top and Tail rock! :)

By: Lu Nelson

Lu Nelson — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:14:43 +0000

Nice episode!
I need to get used to using those tops and tails, they are powerful. Also I like the mapping of the F-keys, I have to look at mine again.

My suggestions:

shift-V and shift-B: insert and overwrite segment modes, since they correspond logically to insert and overwrite edits (in my mind)
shift-Y: add edit point
shift-U: "reselect last trim", which is done by mapping the "trim mode" button with the "option key" button
up- and down-arrows: REW and FF, which I carried over from FCP (prev- and next-edit)...