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I am in the 07_Keyboard project but honestly you could be in any project you like right
now because we're just going to go over how to customize our keyboard commands.
Now this movie is specially for all of you Final Cut Pro users and After Effects users,
that would prefer just using the keyboard shortcuts you already know and love right
here within Motion. So let's get started with the Final Cut Pro
users. Go up to Motion, click on Commands, go to
Final Cut Pro set and choose your language. Now every key command you've learned in Final
Cut Pro works the exact same way in Motion. Pretty sweet!
Well, if we go up to Motion and Commands and change it back to the Standard Set,
let's show how we can really customize key by key.
Go to Motion, Commands and choose Customize. And you notice, now we have a Full Command
Editor, this is one of the new wonderful features in Motion 3.
Now this is the Standard Set, if you click on a specific key it will show you exactly
what that key does and what modifiers you have to hold down to
add those specific things. So if I hit Shift+Cmd+L it will create a New
Light. Well, let's say I want to use an After Effects
command for trimming a layer's end point. In Motion I know it's I, so let's look it
up. If I click on the pull-down here and choose
Key Equivalent and I type I, it will now show me all the different commands
that are typed to I. Let's select Mark In; it sets the end point
of the selected object to the current time. Well, that's pretty much like trimming the
layer in After Effects. Let's hold down Option and hit Left Bracket
and you will get this message, it says, The Command Sets "Standard Set" is owned by
Motion and can not be edited. So let's make a copy.
I'll just call this Ian's example. You can call yours, whatever you would like
and click OK. Now I'll try this again, I'll select the Mark
In and hold down Option and Left Bracket and now I've reset my trim command to function
with those key commands. So let's look it up.
I am going to type left bracket here, and if you notice now Option, Left Bracket,
sets the endpoint of the selected object to the current time.
Now you notice it didn't delete the previous one.
So if I go back to I and find that- If you want to delete one, what you have to do is
hit Delete, and now that key command has been deleted.
So the only way we can trim a layer's end point is with the Option+Left Bracket command.
You can go through key by key and customize each individual thing to your own personal
liking, and once you are done, go up to this pull-down and choose Export.
So this allows you to create a file, which you can copy to whatever system you are working
on, and load your own custom key commands into
Motion. So you can continue working with your own
custom key commands.