![]() I'm in the player and want to quickly select a source to view. Once we start down this exciting path of toggles lots of other uses quickly come to mind. ![]() Fix it so there is a toggle option in the shortcut list so I can use tab. I would like to use TAB in my personaly keyset but i can't because i can only use that to select Play Focus or Record Focus. Do I really want to be forced to use two different keys to switch record/play focus? (No) I cant believe that is beyond AD programmers so lets start to think smart about these things. In the Smoke context I see a lot of dual combinations where a single key could do a similar stunt and toggle between two states.Īs an example Avid used escape to toggle between source and record, its a simple if else statement if your on record focus go to play focus, if not go to record focus. Everywhere else the keys are fair game so make the shortcuts modifier free.īack in the day the Ampex ACE had a rotate source key, it just stepped through all your vtrs so you didn't have to make accurate selections. There are only two instances where hitting a letter results in a letter, naming things (clips/nodes/folders) and entering text in the text tool or 3d text. We are not typing letters home to mom, we are editing. I personally now define any functions that need more than one modifier key - I leave that craziness to people with better memories than mine. SHIFT is an amplification or enhancement of the functionĮg S is for Speed ( i really had to control myself not to make it M for M2 but then I know that would be silly) so SHIFT + S is fit to fill, its the same function but an enhancement of it.Įg Space bar is play/pause, Shift + space is play/pause in to out - same thing but a refined versionĪLT then is for an alternative function - often unrelated but linked to the same key, generally I try to keep it sensible by linking first letter eg Alt-E loads EDL. In my personal default keyboard set if a key is a defined function, CNTRL the same key is the REVERSE of that function.Įg I is set in, CNTRL + I clears the set in.Įg Space bar is play/pause, CTRL + space is reverse play/pause - same thing but the opposite OS functions that make sense such as copy/cut/paste should use the OS conventions.Īlso make the use of a modifier mean the same thing. This of course leaves you free to implement smart uses of the standard apple commands, eg in timeline hit Command+P and print an EDL. There you go in one stroke we have avoided all confusion with the OS. To this end I have helpfully devised a set of rules to help you.įirst no functions get a command (apple) key modifier. ![]() I personally don't care what the keys are once they are fixed, I will learn them, but… keep them simple. No more legacy keys no more confusion - grow some balls and do ONE set right. Quit with the keyboard shortcut hell and sort it out. Smoke 2013 isn't a Flame, it isn't Smoke 2012 and it isn't FCP. ![]() So… Stop playing with keyboard shortcuts already. And so to part two of Mikes raid rebuild day of forced leisure.įor three months now about 30% of the posts to the Area have been answered with 'which shortcut set are you using' followed by 'that doesn't work in that set, the shortcuts are a work in progress'.
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