All language subtitles for 2. How to customize your keyboard shortcuts Shortcuts Kolder Cr

So one of the

most frustrating things about moving
from one editing software to another

is moving your keyboard shortcuts
over to the new program.

Unfortunately,
you can't export your keyboard

layout from premiere or Final Cut
and just imported into DaVinci.

You have to manually change each keystroke
to your desired command.

But this isn't something
that takes too long,

and if you're already using the color

creative keyboard shortcut layout,
then you can just download it down below.

Imported into DaVinci
and then you're good to go.

In this lesson, I'll be showing
you guys exactly how to do this,

as well as how you can customize your own
keyboard shortcuts.

So once DaVinci is open,
all we got to do is go up to The DaVinci

Resolve menu over here and select
keyboard customization.

Now we can see that
if you have Ravenclaw already installed,

the shortcut for
this is command shift case.

If I close this, I hit command shift.

K It will open up automatically like this.

And this is a shortcut
that I personally use all the time.

Because even now,
after putting so much thought

and effort into creating this custom
keyboard shortcut, I still find myself

wanting to make little changes here
and there.

So this is a window I find myself going
back to regularly to make little changes.

And in my personal opinion,

I think that if you consider yourself
a professional editor,

then it's really important
to know how to make these changes

to optimize your workflow,
to be as efficient as possible.

Now, if we're just trying to import
the code, your creative keyboard layout,

all you got to do is go to these three
dots in the top right corner over here.

We select that and we select import
preset.

We're going to want to navigate to
the file that we downloaded linked below.

In this case, it's on my desktop.

Over here, we can select it, click open,
and it will import it here.

Now you can see,

because I already have it imported, it's
going to ask me to change the name.

So I'll just call this to.

And once I've done that, we can see that
we've automatically selected

that keyboard layout and that is the
layout that we're going to be using now.

Now, at any point, if you want to switch
between keyboard layouts, you can do that

very quickly just by pressing
this dropdown arrow over here.

You can see that DaVinci comes
with a bunch of different layouts

right here and down below this line
right here.

These are the ones that we've
manually imported ourselves.

But in my personal workflow,
I always just stay with the color

creative keyboard layout.

If we want to delete any of these,
we can go to delete preset select

which one we want to delete. So this one
right here, I made a duplicate of it.

I'll just delete it just like that.

And now it's gone
from the selection over here.

And if at any point

I want to export a keyboard layout,
maybe to share with a friend

or another editor
that I'm collaborating with,

I can simply go up here,

select Export Presets, select
the one that I want to export.

So in this case, we can select
called your creative keyboard layout.

Choose where I want to export this to.

I can rename it
here, click Save and it will export this

same kind of text file
that you can share with anyone else.

Now, this interface is really powerful

and I think it's really important
to understand how to use this up top.

We have this digital keyboard
interface here that we can use

to let us know what keys
are already assigned to certain commands

and which ones are free and available
for us to assign to new commands.

So to demonstrate, if I hit command shift,
we can see all these different keys

that are assigned shortcuts
so we can see command Chef W command

shift, E command shift.

Are these
all have assigned shortcuts to them.

So if I hit command shift A
and I look down here in the active key

window here, we can see that the command
for that shortcut is diesel at all.

Now, if I select this command
right here in this window,

we can see that this commands window
over here to the right

shows me what keystroke is assigned
to that command.

So over here, we can clearly see
that it is shift command A

and that

is the only keystroke
that is assigned to that command.

If I want to add another keystroke to
this, I can hit this little plus over here

and I can add another keystroke
that will initiate this command.

So with this little block selected,

I can hit any other keyboard
shortcut on my computer.

So let's just make one up
command shift you, for example.

And it's added that in.

Now if I click Save,
I have two different keystrokes

that will initiate this same command,
both shift command and shift command.

You will initiate deselect all.

Now, in this case, I don't want to have
this shortcut assigned to this command,

so I'm just going to click
this little exe and delete it.

Let me show you guys an actual keyboard
shortcut that I created myself

just to make my life a little bit easier.

So let me deselect
all of these modifier keys,

and one of the shortcuts I use a bunch in
the color page is shift A.

So if I select both of these keys
on the virtual keyboard over here,

we can see that the command is highlight
and mark selection.

So this one keyboard shortcut has two
different commands assigned to him.

So if I select this over here
in the active key window

and we go over to the commands window
here, we can see that highlight over here

uses both the keystrokes shift H and shift
A to enable it.

Now if I select Mark selection over here,

this is another command
that is initiated by shift a.

Now, the reason I'm able to use
one keystroke to initiate two separate

commands is because these commands
are unique to certain tabs of the program.

The command mark selection

is only something that I can initiate
on the cut and edit tab.

It's not something that I can initiate
on the color tab,

whereas Highlight is only a command
I can initiate on the color tab.

Now, because of this, I was able to assign
one shortcut to two different commands,

and depending on what tab
I am individually resolve,

that one shortcut will do something
different.

Now, one very important thing to keep in
mind is you cannot assign a keystroke

to a command that is already being used
in another command on the same tab.

So for example, if I want to assign

shift X over here, I'm
going to get this notification over here.

It's going to tell me, Hey, Shift X
is already assigned to Mark Add keyframe.

Do you want to assign this keystroke?

So if I click assign, then we basically
have this one keystroke initiating

two different commands on the same tab,
and that just doesn't work.

That's why
we have this little triangle window here

letting us know that there's an error.

So that's one thing to always
keep in mind.

If you are trying to assign
a new keystroke to a new command,

you need to make sure that that keystroke
isn't already in use by another command.

Otherwise you're going to run into issues.

This was giving me a headache
when I first moved into DaVinci,

but it all completely makes sense.

So if there is a keyboard shortcut
that you want to use more

for a certain command,

you might have to eliminate it
from another command first

in order to use it for this new command.

So in this case, I'm
just going to click Cancel over here

because I don't want to do that

and I'll see if there's a command
that you're looking for

within this interface that you're

trying to assign a keystroke to,
but you can't find it.

What you could do is go to the search bar
over here and just type it in.

But one important thing is to make sure
that you have all commands

selected up here.

So it's searching through
all the different commands of the program

and not just the commands
within one specific area of the program,

which you can also do if you want to.

But in my workflow,

I just always go to all commands over here
and I'll type in what it is that I want.

So in this case I could type in edit
and we can see

all the different commands
within the program

that have anything to do
with the word edit.

And just like before

I can go over here to the right side
under keystroke, I can add new keystrokes

to any of these commands

and maybe there's a command that doesn't

already have a keystroke,
doesn't have a shortcut assigned to it.

I can simply go over here, assign
a new keyboard shortcut to it.

So maybe option D just for fun
and just like that, we can click Save.

And now that keyboard shortcut
is assigned to that command

and it will execute that command
whenever I use it in the program.

In this case, I do not want to use this
shortcut, so I'm just going to click X.

So that's pretty much everything

that you need to know about the keyboard
customization window over here.

Now, if you're just starting out
in the program,

this isn't necessarily the most
important thing for you to understand.

Just know that this is an option.

And as you develop
more and more as an editor,

you'll start to see what commands
you perform on a regular basis.

And what's important is just to make sure
that you do have keyboard shortcuts

assigned to those commands
to save you time.

But that's it for this video.
I hope you guys enjoyed it.

I hope you learned something new
and I'll catch you in the next one.