Custom Keyboard Shortcuts

Dimitrios wrote on 12/15/2018, 9:16 PM

I just recently got a mouse that has extra buttons I can program in hopes of increasing my productivity. There are three things I would really like to create hot keys for but I don't know if its possible.

The first one is I'd like to be able to click on a clip in project media and then push a button to open it in the trimmer. I was about to create a command to do this in the timeline, and I tried a few actions but getting seem to find the only to do it in project media.

The other two are in reference to the editing tool, normally control D brings you back to the normal edit tool. I would love it if I could create a hot key to bring up the time compress tool or the split tool. but this may not be possible. I've tried adding commands to what I thought was the action but nothing worked, I'm guessing because it's still technically part of the of the normal tool. This is more useful for me for time compress so I don't have to hold down ctrl or two mouse buttons the whole time but sometimes the split too is useful too if I'm going to chop up a clip a bunch of times and it doesnt have to be specific.

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Former user wrote on 12/15/2018, 9:51 PM

You don't really need the split tool to split. If you hit "S" at the location of your cursor, it will split the event. You could program the S key in your mouse.


By holding CTRL and using the Numeric Keypad numbers 1 and 3 you can time compress 1 frame at a time left or right. But this would take a lot of time to compress more than a frame unless your mouse allows for the option to hold the button and it repeats. I think the only time compress option is CTRL-slide with mouse.

Dimitrios wrote on 12/15/2018, 9:59 PM

thanks i know about s but the tool is nice for multiple chops. it would be nice not to have to right click and select open in trimmer for every clip in the project media though.

Former user wrote on 12/15/2018, 10:10 PM

I think if you doubleclick on a video in the Media it will open in the trimmer. It is an option in PREFERENCES.

Dimitrios wrote on 12/15/2018, 10:22 PM

awesome i see it thanks