- #FINAL CUT PRO KEY SHORTCUTS HOW TO#
- #FINAL CUT PRO KEY SHORTCUTS SERIES#
- #FINAL CUT PRO KEY SHORTCUTS WINDOWS#
Since turning to FCPX, I have grown to absolutely love using keyboard shortcuts. The other two choices allows you to group your shortcuts prior to export.Get your edit wrapped faster with these FCPX keyboard shortcut customizations. If you want a list that is more easily read in Word, select Save All Commands as Text. If you want to export a list that is read best in Excel - a tab-delimited table - select Save Grid as Text. With the keyboard still displayed, go to Tools > Keyboard Layout.
#FINAL CUT PRO KEY SHORTCUTS HOW TO#
Hmmm… remember at the beginning of this technique I mentioned that there are 392 default shortcuts in Final Cut 6? Well, here’s how to get a complete list of them. Notice that at the right side of the search results window, the new shortcut is listed next to the menu item. When you let go, you have a new keyboard shortcut. Then, from the search results box, where Two-up is displayed, drag the ICON on top of the letter U. Since we want to make Shift+Control+U our new keyboard shortcut to switch to the Two-up window layout, click the Control+Shift tab. Nine that use modifier keys and one that doesn’t.) (It is interesting to me that these tabs don’t allow any three key shortcuts - probably because they had more than enough keys using the ten tab combinations that they have. These correspond to the various combinations of modifier keys that can be held while typing a shortcut.
#FINAL CUT PRO KEY SHORTCUTS SERIES#
I use this a lot to figure out what various key combinations do.Īcross the top of the keyboard image are a series of tabs. NOTE: You can also type a keyboard shortcut and it will find the menu that the shortcut is assigned to. For instance, here I’ve just typed Two and it found the window menu I was looking for. You need to type the text exactly as it appears in the menu, but you don’t need to type the entire phrase. Next, in the search box on the right, type a portion of the menu you want to turn into a shortcut. Unlock the keyboard by clicking the lock icon in the lower left corner. This is not for security, but simply to prevent accidental changes. To prevent accidental changes to your keyboard shortcuts, the keyboard is locked. Here are the steps to create this shortcut. If the default window layout is Control+U, seems to me it would be really useful if this Two-up layout were Shift+Control+U. The problem is that it doesn’t have a keyboard shortcut. It makes the Browser and Timeline smaller so that the Canvas and Viewer can be bigger.
#FINAL CUT PRO KEY SHORTCUTS WINDOWS#
If you have a laptop, the keyboard will look like your laptop keyboard.Ī very useful window layout, to me, is the Two-Up layout ( Windows > Arrange > Two-up). In this case, this shows a full-size keyboard. The keyboard illustration depends upon what keyboard you have connected to your Mac.
Even better, this process is the same for Final Cut Pro 4, HD, 5, and 6 though the default keyboard shortcuts differ between versions.įirst, start Final Cut, though you don’t necessarily need to open any projects. Wouldn’t it be great if we could customize our own keyboard shortcuts?
(I know - I just counted them! I’ll show you how to do the same a little later in this tutorial.) However, even with almost 400 shortcuts to choose from, sometimes, we just don’t have the ones we need. Sheesh! No wonder we sometimes get lost trying to find the menu to do something.įinal Cut 6 also has 392 keyboard shortcuts. I read somewhere that Final Cut Pro has 650 menus. [ This article was first published in the February, 2009, issue of
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