IDCS3 Keyboard Shortcut confusion

I'm sure this is obvious, but I just can't seem to find the answer in help or online-- I've set my keyboard shortcuts to Quark 4; but when I try to use the function key shortcuts, (F7 to show/hide guides, for example), my Mac (MacBook Pro, 10.4.10) uses the Finder-defined shortcut-- so when I try to hide guides, I get Expose. Annoying!
Thanks in advance for helping--
Timothy

Go into your System Preferences->Keyboard & Mouse->Keyboard Shortcuts area and change the system shortcuts that are conflicting or turn them off. I turn off about 50% of them immediately upon setting up a new computer just because we will never need the universal access ones or the ones to move keyboard focus around.
However, I would strong recommend getting used to using the Expose shortcuts. They are particularly effective if you define them onto a 5-button mouse. All our mice in here have button 4 set to Show All Windows and button 5 set to Show Desktop. You can whip around through a pile of windows, or just get underneath them all a LOT faster after you do that.
(NOTE: You may have to go to the System Prefs->Expose area to define Expose mouse shortcuts, btw.)

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[IDCS3] Keyboard Shortcut Issues

InDesign CS3 + WinXP SP3...fully updated on both
Have gone to Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts... to verify that I am using the Default set of shortcuts.
I want to use Ctrl+Alt+C to do Fitting: Fit Frame to Content, but for some odd reason I get no response at all from ID.
I have an ATI video card that at one point used that same shortcut to bring up Catalyst Control Center, but I have turned off that ability in CCC.
Is there anyway to see what is bound to this shortcut and restore it back in ID?

Easier than Ken's suggestion is simply to pick something in Edit Keyboard Shortcuts at random and try to apply Ctrl+Alt+C. If there is a conflict, ID will tell you where it is. But that misses the point anyhow if the conflict is from outside of InDesign which it could well be.
I would suggest that you don't use the default shortcuts. Make your own set even if you haven't yet made any customizations. It will encourage you to take advantage of the feature. Besides, sometimes just flipping between sets will jar things loose and get them working again.
And if you have a custom set you can try a couple of tests, like assigning something else to Fit Frame, and assigning Ctrl+Alt+C to something else to see if the shortcut will work there.

Keyboard Shortcut Confusion

As an addendum to my first post on this subject I want to add that using shiftB to beam selected notes now produces a brilliant white light on the screen, but still won't do its' job.

Thanks Ericsimon, but the standard US Key Commands I initially set up are still there and say that shiftB should beam the selected notes-not bounce the track. The same goes for shiftU-it should unbeam the selected notes, but today it selects all events in the piece, It seems to change each day-Logic was never this exciting, I can't wait for Cubase 6 to come. The standard key shortcuts I mentioned here are only in the score editor, and since I am working there it should have "Key Focus" or have I missed something?

Expose keyboard shortcuts seem to already be taken; i'm confused; help?

Hello,
I'm a mac newbie. Under the mac help instructions for expose, I find these instructions:
xposé provides a quick way to see all open application windows and switch between them. Press the F9 key to see all the windows you have open, or press the F10 key to see the open windows in the application you are currently using. To hide all open windows so you can see the desktop, press F11.
What I find is that f9, f10, and f11 are taken with other shortcuts on the keyboard and I can never get the expose shortcuts to work. I've played around and find no way around this.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks.

Ray, Thanks for the very helpful response.
To add to your discovery, it also appears that under system preferences/keyboard, there is a box that is defaulted "unchecked" that reads, "Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys. When this option is selected, press the FN key to use the special features printed on each key."
That is why my keyboard is over-riding the function keys b/c it is unchecked. When I check this box the expose works as intended.
I also find that my mouse is set up to have the "side" buttons linked with expose.
Under the keyboard shortcuts, I can see where I can check/uncheck the keyboard options but not change them. Still playing around with it...but you definitely solved it for me.
I will mark as such. Good work! Thanks.

Converting Mac keyboard shortcuts to Windows/PC based shortcuts.

Hello,
Let me say, I have been using Mac based platforms since close to 1991 on and off. I used System 7 (and OS 8/9, but close enough to System 7) for many years up until I started to use Windows starting on the later 9x and XP platforms. As I start to drift away from Windows to more likely use Macs, however I would like to have a consistent keyboard shortcut system similar to Windows or Linux/UNIX (for that matter).
I actually get confused very easily switching from Macs and Windows with keyboard commands often when I use Windows comp and when I am using the Mac. (Just switching from different kinds of keyboards confuse me from the razor thin keys to a regular keyboard, because going from another one confuses me because of different pressures to press the on.)
I also believe this may have to do with a "workflow" process/scripting, if I am not mistaken. Is there a script I can download, that has close to the standard Windows/PC commands that I can import into the Mac, and can these scripts be edited to adapt my own commands as well? Is there a way to use most of the function keys (F1-12) for the standard commands for the different purposes? I also would like the Option (alt)-Tab to cycle the different apps and Option-Esc to cycle all windows opened. I would like to try to reduce all Option/Command/Control/Shift commands to just a couple of keystrokes or an F key. These modifier keys I think are becoming old, especially since it doesn't meet Apple's simplicity, giving there is up to three keystrokes to press at a given time for some commands.
I had tried the way on the System Preferences, but it doesn't go globally through all applications - real problem lies on the Apple apps on some. I strongly believe this is possible to do, since it might be able to work via a scripting system. I hope this could work. Apple has come a long way to open up the system's architecture without really messing things up, or just opening up the OS without hex apps is great. I hope they can just keep this up so the users can decide how they want their mac to work, because they know what's right for their purposes.
Thanks in advance,
Steven

You may like youpi key. It is free. It works fairly well for me in MAC OS 10.4 although not officially supported. There is a commercial version you can buy, called iKey.
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/11485&vid=75326
Here is my script for listing my application folder. I have it assigned to function-key 6.
tell application "Finder"
activate
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make new Finder window to startup disk
select Finder window 1
set target of Finder window 1 to folder "Applications" of startup disk
select Finder window 1
set position of Finder window 1 to {60, 45}
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This script was automatically generated in script editor record mode. After I recorded the script and did some minor editing, I copy the script to youpi key.
I have all of my frequently used applications set to function keys. I am thinking of changing the switching to Scripts because there seems to be a side effect to some of the switching like the speaking.

Multicamera keyboard shortcut keys stopped working

PP 2014.0.1 release.
My keyboard shortcut keys (standard: 0,1,2) were working, but they stopped working mid-edit. Restarting the application did not fix this. Mouse works - but what a crappy way to select a camera.
Any suggestions?

To answer my own question:
I discovered that the Multicamera track in the timeline must be targeted (enabled in the track header in the timeline) or the keyboard shortcuts to select a camera do not work. (I don't know how my track became untargeted, but it did.)
Although I understand how a keyboard shortcut will change the current clip in the multicamera sequence to the associated camera, the keyboard shortcut is strongly associated as input to the multicamera window, not the timeline. After all, I click on a camera view in the Multicamera program monitor to select that camera. I don't click in the timeline to do that. So It's not at all obvious that the multicamera track must be targeted for camera selection to work.
I find it confusing.
Do other users consider this a bug or good design?

Put convert anchor points options in Keyboard Shortcuts

I have two objects with the exact same border path and multiple types of points within the border. I believe that the only way to covert two corner points (at the exact same location) into smooth points (and thus maintain the exact same path for both) is to use the Control panel method (paste in from Help, below). This requires going clear up to the Control panel. I wish that both of these Control panel options where available under Keystroke Shortcuts. This would allow much faster operation that the long trip for my mouse or pen on my large Wacom board.
-------> From AI Help file:
Convert one or more anchor points using the Control panel
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The buttons are not recordable.
> I believe that the only way to covert two corner points (at the exact same location) into smooth points (and thus maintain the exact same path for both)
Unless I'm misunderstanding your description, Illustator's new but lame convert buttons do not really meet your criteria anyway. The Convert to Smooth button does not merge two coincident corner points on the same path into a single smooth point. You still have two points.
If the two coincident points are actually endpoints of two separate paths, CtrlShiftAlt-J will average their positions, join and merge them.
The convert point type commands should be located in proper contextual cursor menus in AI. But AI does not really have proper contextual cursor menus.
AI's confused interface has pretty much run out of practical keyboard shortcuts.
Illustrator's new convert anchorpoint buttons are very lame compared to the features that have long existed in Adobe's other drawing program, FreeHand. The convert to corner button should not retract existing handles. The convert to smooth should not always extend handles. Provision should be made for individual retraction/auto-extension when converting.
We are not seeing Adobe leverage the rights to better functionality it gained when it acquired Macromedia. We are only seeing cheap, piecemeal imitations and lip-service toward the still-superior functionality in the acquired program.
JET

Is there a keyboard shortcut to activate / deactivate the built in mic?

Is there a keyboard shortcut to activate / deactivate the built in mic?

Ah somewhat confusing. Your question seemed to indicate you were looking for a way to disable the mic, not that it wasn't working with some apps.
Have you tried any of the Apple apps, Garage Band or Dictation? Do they work? If the input volume indicator under the mic in System Preferences is moving in response to your voice then the problem is not that the mic is disabled or muted, the sound is getting into the system.
Does the Input Volume move while you have one of the non-working apps opened? Have you installed any 3rd party sound apps or kernel extensions?
Are the mic settings in Audio MIDI setup 44100.0 HZ and 2ch-24 bit?
I would start by seeing if the mike works with one of the apps I mentioned above or download something like Audacity: Free Audio Editor and Recorder to test it out.

Flash CS5: Is there a keyboard shortcut to move to the next keyframe?

I know there are keyboard shortcuts to move to the next and previous frames -- "." and "," but they're not really what I'm referring to. Also, these keys don't necessarily move to the next and previous frames, rather it just seems to move the red playhead instead of the blue highlighted box (which represents the current frame). This is something I'm also confused about with this keyboard shortcut.
I would like to know though, if there is a keyboard shortcut to move to the next keyframe (each frame that begins with a dot). Thanks for your help.

While I am not quite sure what you mean with
"each frame that begins with a dot"
you can use jsfl to program your own macros/shortcuts
In your case start on page 575 of this document
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/flash/cs/extend/flash_extending_reference.pdf
How to get all keyframes of a specific layer:
Helpful JSFL Scripts for Indexing the Flash IDE Stage | Simplest Explanation

Keyboard shortcut for filling layer with color are opposite on my PS CS6 OSX install, Help?

Hello all,
I'm a bit of a noob, and following a tutorial….and found something strange and wonder if you might help me figure what's happening.
I have Photoshop Extended CS6 on a macbook pro (late 2011).
I'm running OSX v 10.7.5
I'm following along and the instructor added a new layer. I did this.
He then filled the layer with white which is his background color (he has black foreground, white background). I have the same fore/background colors.
Now, I thought on mac that to fill with foreground color you hit Apple+Delete and to fill with background you hit Option+Delete
It is doing the exact OPPOSITE for me. I hit Apple+Delete (or even backspace) and it fills with my background color which is white
If I hit Option+Delete (or backspace) it fills with my foreground color.
I've tried looking in the Edit Keyboard shortcuts area…but I don't see these settings anywhere.
I do have an external keyboard hooked to my mac. It is a 3rd party one, but seems to work in ever other way normally.
Keyboard here is: http://pckeyboard.com/page/UKBD/UB40P4A
Any suggestions why my keyboard shortcut for filling a layer with color might be reversed?
Thanks in advance,
CC

eartho wrote:
option-delete is, and always has been, fill with foreground.
a 1 second google search would have informed you of this.
Thanks for the reply.
I did do a Google and I got this:
http://blog.coghillcartooning.com/84/tip-keyboard-shortcut-to-fill-a-photoshop-layer-or-se lection-with-the-background-or-foreground-color/
And from that I got the option-delete was background, and apple-delete was foreground.
Hence my confusion...
Thanks for the reply, I guess I should check 2-3 sites each time I google for keyboard shortcuts for PS.
CC

Clear Appearance Keyboard shortcut

Perhaps I'm missing it but it would sure be nice to have a Keyboard Shortcut option for Clear Appearance since in my work I constantly use it. There should also be a *clear* explanation about how this and graphic styles relate to layers and objects (together or separately). All that I can find is some nebulous reference to partially selected' for such work. Why not tell us your thinking. I have had to spend days and days of wasted time trying to figure out just how it works and finally know more than I did, but your Help files need to reflect 'this is our methodology in styles and clear appearance. Thanks.

Jim,
In recent days you have requested several new keyboard shortcuts you want to see added to AI. When you make such suggestions, I would suggest that you suggest
which keys you would like to see used.
Fact is, if you do a little experimentation, you'll find that in AI, there are precious few practical keyboard shortcuts not already used up.
Endlessly adding keyboard shortcuts is not the solution to the confused mess that Illustrator's interface has evolved into. It's a poorly designed interface, having continuously had new features piled-upon, rather than cleanly integrated. Illustrator has lost all trace of interface elegance.
JET

Can I-Photo Events be closed with a keyboard shortcut ?

If I open an event or events containing, for example, 100 photos, can I close that event without scrolling to the top and clicking the delta arrow?
Can I close all open events with a keyboard shortcut?

When I open an event, the "All Events" arrow is always visible at the top of the window. No need to scroll. So, I'm kind of confused. However, you can hit Tab which will move the focus to the library list, selecting Events. Arrow down to photos and then back to Events. Tab again to move focus the the events pane.

Going from Mac to PC environment - keyboard shortcut help

I just began working on a PC workstation and realized how much of a hassle it is due to the fact that the keyboard shortcut locations are so different. For instance...
If I wanted to perform an Undo, I would push Apple+Z on my Mac keyboard. However if I am on a PC and wish to do an Undo, I would have to push Ctrl+Z (which unlike a Mac is NOT the button next to the spacebar).
The button next to the spacebar on a PC happens to be the Alt button, which is what I always end up hitting because I'm so used to working on a Mac1 Does somebody have a PC Adobe Creative Suite preset file that conains all the keyboard shortcuts with the Alt and Ctrl buttons already switched? Or is there some way I could easily switch the Alt and Ctrl buttons without having to change each individual command manually? Thanks.

copaesthetic wrote:
Does somebody have a PC Adobe Creative Suite preset file that conains all the keyboard shortcuts with the Alt and Ctrl buttons already switched?
How about thinking outside of the box... the Creative Suite box? What happens when you are using something other than a CS app and need to undo something? Those CS shortcuts would not really help you and would cause more confusion.
As one that uses both platforms, I can assure you that what you are experiencing should be very temporary. It is not that difficult to mentally manage the shuffling of a couple keys.
If you are committed to modifying your keyboard, you could try an app like this:
http://webpages.charter.net/krumsick/
You could also use this app with a Mac keyboard connected to your Windows computer, as suggested above. If I recall correctly, a Mac keyboard on Windows will make the COMMAND key equal to the WINDOWS key. Either, way, you are setting yourself up for huge headaches because these keys mean slightly different things on each computer. Just learn how to use the Windows keyboard as it is. I'm sure you cannot really be mentally challenged over this.

How to import keyboard shortcuts into Flash 8 Pro?

Recently i upgraded my computer to Windows XP, so backed
everything up, reformatted and reinstall. The usual.
One thing i use very often in Flash is my own custom keyboard
shortcuts, which i found handy that you can export them.... however
a huge problem i just came across when reinstalling everything and
getting back into using Flash... I CANT IMPORT KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS?!
I cant seem to find this option anywhere, which is incredibly
annoying as you would expect along with a "Export set as HTML"
option for exporting your keyboard shortcuts.... but an option to
simply import them is nowhere to be found! I cant even find a
folder that i can put the html file i created with my keyboard
shortcuts.... Tried putting it everywhere in the Flash 8
directories.... and still doesnt show up.
Hell, photoshop isnt this confusing, just drop the file in
the Presets/Keyboard Shortcuts folder, and you're done! I dont see
this anywhere for Flash... even in the Local Settings/Application
Data folder where it STORES the shortcuts in its own WFX format!
Too much of a pain remembering all the key configs i had
setup... only option is to change em as i go along i guess, but
there HAS to be an easier way to do this!
Any idea?
*Edit* Ok, now i just realized my mistake... having seen
where the shortcuts are saved, i didnt think of looking for them
there earlier... so i didnt back that up. Arg!

if no shortcut works, try resetting your flash pro preferences:
Hold down Shift+Ctrl+Alt (Win) or Shift+Command+Option (Mac) when starting flash pro.
for more info:
http://helpx.adobe.com/flash/kb/re-create-preferences-flash-professional.html

Keyboard shortcuts to set in/out points?

I've been using FCP for a while, but lately have been teaching iMovie HD at our local cable access studio. I'm very impressed with what iMovie can do now, with one glaring problem - setting in/out points. I'm used to playing through my video, and when I get to a point I want I'll click "i" or "o" to set the points.
In iMovie the only way (near as I can tell) to set in/out points is by scrubbing the markers which confuses everyone and takes far too long. It's a very strange feature not to have an obvious keyboard equivalent to.
Is there any way to set in/out points via the keyboard?

There's a list of iMovie keyboard shortcuts under 'Help' on the top-line menu: it's "iMovie HD Keyboard Shortcuts".
But iMovie doesn't work on In and Out points selected from a longer clip, in the way that Final Cut Express and Final Cut Pro do.
It was originally envisaged that iMovie, as a simple editor, just lets you cut and join clips, with optional Transitions, Effects, etc.
There are Crop Markers which can be used: just put your cursor beneath the blue(?) Playhead line, just under the playback window, and a pair of triangular crop markers will appear. If they don't - just hover for a moment at the extreme left just beneath the playback window.
The crop markers can then be dragged to any positions, and Apple ('Command')+K will then crop that selected video section. This can be undone with Apple+Z.
The crop markers can be dragged anywhere, or you can click on one and use the usual keyboard shortcuts of left and right cursor key to move one a frame at a time, or Shift+left/right cursor key to jump 10 frames at a time.
It wasn't originally anticipated, with iMovie, that people would import longer sections of video than needed (..unlike professional shooting and capture..) and then choose just briefer sections within those long clips. The thinking behind iMovie was "cut out and throw away", not "identify shorter section and use that, while secretly retaining full duration of original clip".
It's only with the current iMovie 5/HD that the background handling of clips now approaches FCE and FCP, giving reliable "non-destructive trimming", so that crop markers can be used to set 'wanted' sections, and other sections remain behind invisibly, in a robust Trash can, "..just in case".
You can 'Split video at Playhead' (Apple+T) ..which is what I generally use for editing, but you have to manually drag crop markers to where you want them. It's a historical thing.
You're really asking for a shortcut to set a crop marker to the Playhead position. Why not use Feedback to ask for one in the next version?
But sorry; I don't know of any keyboard shortcuts to do what you want.
Maybe someone else does, though..

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