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Context: I'm an editor and I'm loving Resolve 12.5! Had tried and given up on v10. Then v12 was much better and v12.5 has brought some great features for editors, even things I haven't seen in other apps.

I spent some time mapping my own new keyboard. Then I started a new project and the keys didn't work, and I checked in the project settings and the keyboard had defaulted to "Davinci Resolve".

Would it not make more sense to have keyboard in the preferences? I would have thought most people will want to edit their keyboard and then leave it mostly alone and expect it to work the same across all projects. Same with Autosave.

Workarounds? I'm guessing if I edited the keyboard called "Davinci Resolve" this could work. I had kept this one unedited as a reference.

Thanks for the fantastic work.

What I do is I create an empty project template that has every possible preset I could use, including Auto-Save timings, Keyboard shortcuts, clip settings, color science, reference clips, PowerGrades, the whole thing.

When I begin a new project, I just open one of the saved templates, do a Save-As with the new project name, and go to work. No muss, no fuss, no surprises.

You can also save most (but not all) of this stuff with Project Settings -> Presets, which are covered in the manual. Keyboard Mapping would definitely be saved there.

Unless I'm misunderstanding you, there's a simple solution: configure any particular keyboard to taste, then name and save it. Then, for a new project, select it from the pull-down menu, if it isn't already a default in the project settings.

You can also export that keyboard preset file for use on another system.

Marc Wielage wrote:What I do is I create an empty project template that has every possible preset I could use, including Auto-Save timings, Keyboard shortcuts, clip settings, color science, reference clips, PowerGrades, the whole thing.

When I begin a new project, I just open one of the saved templates, do a Save-As with the new project name, and go to work. No muss, no fuss, no surprises.

You can also save most (but not all) of this stuff with Project Settings -> Presets, which are covered in the manual. Keyboard Mapping would definitely be saved there.

Mark .. this is a great idea. I don't know how it never even came to my mind

Many thanks for sharing this

Marc - thank you, that seems a great workaround for now

John - yes, that is what I am doing. It's just very counter infinitive coming from other NLE's.

Nick Lear wrote:Marc - thank you, that seems a great workaround for now

John - yes, that is what I am doing. It's just very counter infinitive coming from other NLE's.

Make the keyboard map you wish to use and save it as the default user preset in project settings. Details in the manual for setting the default for all new projects to use a specific project setting set up. Then when you start a new project it will load that preset.

Thank you, that worked.

For anyone else, this is what I did (p80 manual):

- Open project Preferences
- Click on Presets
- Click on "<username> default config" in list (NB Don't hit "Load")
- Click on Keyboard Mapping, change the "Map Keyboard to"
- Click on Auto Save, turn on
- Click on Presets, hit "Save" (the one that is next to "Load")

I ignored Step 4b "Click the Apply button for each panel to keep your changes" as there is no "Apply" button, nor did the "Save" button at the bottom light up.