

If the screenshot panel is in your way, you can grab its left edge and drag it to a new spot on your screen. Lastly, you can choose to show your mouse pointer in a screenshot or video. Unlike on your iPhone, you can turn off this preview thumbnail on your Mac. It lets you choose where to save your screenshot - Desktop, Documents, Clipboard, Mail, Messages, Preview or Other Location, and set a 5- or 10-second delay so you can line up items that might otherwise disappear when you engage your screenshot tool.īy default, the Show Floating Thumbnail option is enabled, which puts a little preview thumbnail of your just-captured screenshot in the lower-right corner of your screen, similar to the screenshot procedure with iOS. On the left is an X button to close the screenshot panel, but you can also just hit the Escape key to exit out. Likewise, the two video-recording buttons let you record your entire screen or a selection of it. There are three screenshot buttons that let you capture the entire screen, a window or a selection of your screen. You can toggle between moving the bottom edge and right edge by keeping the mouse button or touchpad engaged and pressing the Shift key.Ī shortcut command introduced way back in MacOS Mojave in 2018, Cmd-Shift-5 calls up a small panel at the bottom of your display with your screen capture options. Without releasing the mouse button, release the Shift key and hit it again to reposition the right edge of your selection area. Hold down the Shift key (after dragging to highlight an area but before releasing the mouse button or trackpad): This locks in each side of the selection area made with the crosshairs save the bottom edge, letting you move your mouse up or down to position the bottom edge. It's very handy if your initial selection area is off by a few pixels just hold down the spacebar to reposition it before releasing the mouse button to snap a screenshot. Press and hold the spacebar (after dragging to highlight an area but before releasing the mouse button or trackpad): This locks in the shape and size of the selection area but lets you reposition it on the screen. A screenshot captured by this method features a white border around the window with a bit of a drop shadow. Click on your desired window to take a screenshot of it. Press and release the spacebar: The crosshair turns into a little camera icon, which you can move over any open window. You have a number of other options after hitting Cmd-Shift-4:

Release the mouse button or trackpad to take the shot. Or, get a prefabricated additional keyboard like HOTKEY MATRIX.Use this keyboard combo to turn your cursor into a crosshair, which you can drag to select a portion of your screen to capture. It is a bit of work, inclusive documenting everything, but it increases editing/mixing speed massively. Single keys, that are often needed in sequence, can be mapped directly next to each other, like "Copy Special All Automation" - "Repeat to fill Selection" - "Thin all", all depending on ones own workflow. You can assign shortcut sequences to a single key, like "Tab, Tab, Shift Tab, F" or "Select next Clip, Snap to Previous". "Ctrl Alt Start Shift L" will be a single key.

PRO TOOLS KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS PRO
Prerequisite : a list of unused shortcuts so the official ones are not affected.Īssign any shortcut, either complicated Pro Tools own ones (like Ctrl Alt Start Shift L) or personal shortcuts created with Autohotkey, to a second keyboard like expertkeys EK-128 or an X-Keys keyboard. The above are menu items, that do not have a shortcut assigned to it. WinMenuSelectItem, Pro Tools,, Edit, Automation, Coalesce Volume Automation to Clip Gain Edit, Automation, Coalesce Volume Automation to Clip Gain = Ctrl Shift Q WinMenuSelectItem, Pro Tools,, Edit, Automation, Thin All

Edit, Automation, Thin all = Ctrl Shift T (this is just a remark, not code)
PRO TOOLS KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS CODE
the edit menu command "Thin all" to Ctrl Shift T with this code : It is not possible to change the original shortcuts in Pro Tools.īut with Autohotkey, you can assign unused shortcuts to your keyboard,Į.g.
