Tomas E wrote:I'm sorry Marc, but it doesn't work. I just tried with the Alt-S too. However I found a bunch of keyboard shortcuts that already exists (picture). Since the S is already assigned I'm not going to select it for subtitles. I find it strange however that Resolve doesn't react when I try to choose a shortcut that already exists.
What happens if you use control-alt-shift-S? Guaranteed, that one is not in use.
Again, a standalone Macro program (like the excellent one Streamdeck gives away with their keyboards) will let you select a menu item.
I use some weird combinations just so I can avoid anything else that's already in use. In fact, I do it just in case we have a freelance guy working in the room and he or she won't be tripped up with one of my Keyboard Customizations. All the stock factory Resolve shortcuts are left alone on our systems. The chance of the colorist or conform artist hitting control-option-shift-D are about 1 in a thousand, and I use that to enable/disable Dual-Screen (as one example). I'd never, ever, ever, just program "D" to do that, because D is used for a lot of other things... like an alphabetical character in a file name.
I can recall a good friend of mine in the 1980s who was completely vexed because he had tied the
space bar to a macro. It was such a disaster, I called him the next day and asked him how he solved it: he took the nuclear option: wiped his hard drive, reformatted it, restored the OS from scratch, and painstakingly re-installed every app, which I think took 18 hours. I learned from his lesson and remember that vividly, even 35 years later: some keys you should just avoid using as a macro. And with XKeys and Streamdeck and a dozen other little $99 boxes out there, just break out the command to a macro hardware keyboard. We have the $30,000 Advanced Panels, and I
still use a Streambox for certain arcane things the big panels just won't do.