Some Help in Using All Those Marker Shortcuts

I realize that there are a lot of marker shortcuts and while the basics like M (duh) and CMD Grave (delete a marker) and OPT CMD M (edit previous marker) are well worth committing to memory, some of the more obscure shortcuts like the ones for playing and looping markers that we covered on Friday are harder to add into your gray matter effectively (unless, of course, you have a photographic memory).

Because of this, I have put together a Marker Cheat Sheet that you can bookmark and bring up as a quick reference for those times when you are doing a lot of work with markers. If you’re like me, there are times when you’re doing a certain kind of work and using the all the obscure shortcuts that pertain may be very valuable for that work session, but there’s no way you’re going to remember them all the next time a day filled with that kind of work arises.

http://www.fcp.shortcutter.com/markers

The cheat sheet is compact and concise and, if you click on the various shortcut graphics, you will be taken to the appropriate article that goes in-depth for that shortcut. You may wish to print it out or simply keep it up in an open browser window for easy (CMD TAB) reference.

You may notice that this cheat sheet is a sub-page of what will eventually be a complete index of all the shortcuts presented on this site, but that complete index is still a work in progress. Based on several emails I have received, I think this will be a valuable resource both for quickly finding articles here and for getting a quick, at-a-glance view of all of the FCP shortcuts.

We will be adding more of these “cheat sheets” in the weeks to come, both for “families” of shortcuts and for sets of shortcuts that are part of a unified shortcut workflow scenario. I hope they’ll be useful, but I don’t want you to use them as a crutch! It is still highly preferable, in my opinion anyway, to commit the major shortcuts that you use every day to memory and the best way to learn shortcuts is one at a time.

At any rate, enjoy the cheat sheet and bookmark it if you like as it isn’t going anywhere. You’ll see that you can also reference it by holding your mouse over the new “Complete Shortcut Index” tab at the top of this column.