Ever wish for a shortcut in Pro Tools? I have. You may be in luck. This works for commands in Pro Tools that have a menu item associated with them.
Lets use ‘Save As’ as an example. Go to System Preferences – > Keyboard/Mouse and go to the “Keyboard Shortcuts” tab. Click the “+” near the bottom left.
This will prompt you to choose your application, which in our case will be Pro Tools HD, or Pro Tools LE. You will probably have to scroll to the bottom and select “other” and navigate to your Digidesign folder to select the application. Under menu title, enter the EXACT menu title of the key command you want to make. This part is case sensitive, and must be exactly what is in the menu, including if there is a “…” at the end of the menu title, which just means the menu item will pop up a dialog box.
So, for Save As, enter “Save As…”. Next click the keyboard shortcut box and press your desired shortcut (I used Shift-Apple-S) Next time you start Pro Tools, you can check the menu and it should have your new key command next to Save As. Enjoy!
This is what it Should look like
One of the commands I find myself using a lot is “Name” which is under View->Region to quickly hide/show region names for easier region viewing while editing. You can also use this to bring up Audiosuite plug-ins, which is handy.
Note: I know there are 3rd party applications that let you do something similar on a PC, but I don’t own a PC, so I cannot attest to this. Also, you can check this article from PC-Mag on one way of making keyboard shortcuts in Windows.
[...] In conjunction with this feature, the new region rating system also provides an easy way to keep track of which regions contain takes that you liked, or that your producer/director liked. You can rate regions 0-5 using the shortcut Command+Option+Control+[0-5] (Mac) and Alt+Start+Command+[0-5] (PC). To view these ratings, enable ‘rating’ in the view-regions menu, or create a shortcut for toggling rating view in your regions using this post. [...]
There is several apps for Mac that does this as well. My personal favorite is Quickeys, where you can select the menu and menu item fast and assign it an shortcut OR assign a HID device button like xkeys. It also has advanced features like macros and so on. It’s not free, but it’s well worth the money if you’re a keyboardgeek like me.
mmmm Quickeys! I love it as well! I just started experimenting with a second keyboard to only fire my macros and it’s pretty great! I’ve had a hard time actually thinking of things I do enough to create shortcuts or macros for that don’t already have shortcuts.
i cant nudge in ma protools and i dont know why can i get help? i hav protools 8 m-powred on pc