Step 2: Select either “Button to Button Reassignment” or “Menu to Button Reassignment” to begin editing your shortcuts. The short answer to that second question is that the Live feels like the top half of the CT. You get the 6 dials, the 12 touch screen buttons. What you don’t get is the extra 12 physical buttons at the bottom and the big, round dial with the touchscreen in the center. You also get 8 ROUND buttons across the bottom but the one on the left is a home button. So that’s more like seven. On the CT the home buttons is a square button. Okay! Thankfully, we’ve found some workarounds you can try that will allow you to further customize your Avid Pro Tools shortcut workflow: Sorry for bumping an old thread but it seems that some keyboard shortcuts is not functioning as they should. Not sure if they are bugs or not:

Cycle Through Edit Modes: [`] Key (known as the "Single Open Quote" key, located directly above the Tab key) This is very unfortunate as it 1) breaks the keyboard mapping for the built-in Avid shortcuts, and 2) severely limits the power user. I hope there's a shortcut for the search function in the Effects panel. It would be great if I can just by using shortcut, moving from the timeline to the Effects Library Panel, hit a button and then start typing the name of the Effects without touching a mouse. Selecting and applying the effects to the existing clips/ position would be extra great. Now we’ll dive into more complex keyboard shortcuts that will allow you to access a wide range of features and tools.

Search Dial Control with Clutch

The first thing is the addition of the dials. There are certain edit tasks that lend themselves to rotating a dial and it’s a real joy. You’ll want to use “Menu to Button” Reassignment if you want to attach a menu item to a certain key or shortcut, such as control panel windows. The venerable Avid Media Composer recently updated to version 2022.7. This in and of itself might not be big news and I don’t always cover every NLE release as there are so many of them (and it depends on what I’m working in at the time TBH). But this Media Composer release had one addition that I thought was quite surprising. If you’re an editor who works on Avid Media Composer, shortcuts will become a key part of your workflow as they will allow you to work faster and more efficiently. We’ve compiled this handy shortcut guide so that you can speed up your editing sessions and work smarter, not harder. Make sure to save this for future reference!

This will still take some self-educating and setup time to get comfortable using, but once you do you can fine tune your Pro Tools commands to your hearts content, along with pretty much any other program. Also, I couldn't find a way to set the keyboard shortcut for the Auto Align Clips by Waveform on the Timeline. Hope it is included in the next update. Looking at the TW on the = key, that’s for the Timecode Window. Press the = while in the Resolve keyboard layout in Avid and the timecode window will open. Actually in Resolve hitting the = doesn’t open a timecode window but rather takes you to the timecode entry field of the Resolve Timeline Viewer. That allows for manual timecode entry and the +/- navigation by timecode. While you can +/- navigate by timecode increments in Resolve you have to hit that = for manual timecode entry to jump to a specific time. In Avid you can just type the timecode value so Resolve users will rejoice at that as it’s quite nice. Of course, we do live in a drag-and-drop era when many editors have never bothered to learn about proper Source/Record 3-point editing and they just drag everything they need right into the timeline. God help them. That isn’t a way that Avid was ever meant to work.

Again, you’ll get out of it what you put into it. Yea but what about all those other tools Avid editor use? But this has never been a thing in the Avid world so I was surprised to see this. It’s also the first time I remember seeing Resolve as a competitor keyboard shortcut option. 🤔 Is there a bit of a delay when you execute something like these trims? Maybe a minuscule one but it’s quite small. No more than other hardware surfaces like a Contour Shuttle Pro. It may be fractionally slower than executing something in Premiere Pro but it’s almost unnoticeable. It works very well. Being a successful professional audio editor or producer requires both precision and speed. The longer it takes to complete a project, the less projects you complete.

It's actually the thing that keeps me from moving from Premiere Pro and Avid to edit in Davinci Resolve. I use the number rows for shortcuts a lot in those two NLEs and since I want to migrate as much of my shortcuts from other NLEs, I can't afford to lose a whole row for just typing timecode to jump to. I'd rather having the number pad on the right for that purpose. Funny, I have had the exact same experience coming from AVID to Resolve as an editor. This particular command was part of the reason you can cut so fast on AVID. You can get a similar result in Resolve using the copy and paste command and then trim the pasted clip in the timeline. I have not found a way to load into the source monitor with the copy command. Peter Chamberlain wrote:We currently have no plans to alter the single key number selection to be anything other than timecode or frame entry. With many different keyboard types and many laptop users who need those for timecode its not high on our list to review. I believe it can be. Adjusting audio gain via a dial and not a keyboard combo is very fast considering you often have to implement the key combo multiple times as you change an audio level. A twist of a dial is a very natural way to do this and it beats mousing it with the Audio Mixer by a mile. I was curious so I fired up Media Composer to see what these shortcuts looked like as Avid kinda by its very design isn’t really a “tool” based editor. Meaning you often work in different modes and you don’t have a lot of tools like you do in Premiere that get keyboard shortcut. If you want to slip a clip you don’t grab a slip tool and drag but rather you enter Trim Mode and do a slip trim which is a far more effective way to do it anyway since you can play the media and not drag. But I digress.

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These single key commands are often called “hotkeys” and are typically assigned due to their frequency of use.