Pro Tools Keyboard Commands

Time to put in work. Hey everyone hope you all are having a good weekend so far! This week I want to talk about shortcuts or hot keys. This is one of the most important elements for an engineer. Most programs have shortcuts or hotkeys but I am talking about the industry standard Pro Tools. So what are shortcuts or hotkeys? They are premade commands within the program to help you work faster and not use your mouse for everything. Now these are very important to use because once you get clients you may not have all the time in the world. You need to be able to work fast and be able to use the keyboard for almost everything. You can learn the Pro Tools shortcuts from a free PDF that Avid has put up. This PDF explains every single shortcut for the Macintosh and Windows operating systems. It explains what the action is and the keyboard command(s) for it. I am suggesting that you download it and open a blank session and practice some of the basic shortcuts first. After you feel comfortable with the basics, move onto the more advanced commands. Now you will not remember every single command because there are way too many to memorize. This is just to help you have a more efficient workflow and they are good to know. Another option is to get a skin or stickers that are custom made for a mac or windows keyboard. These are color-coded and go right on the keyboard with the shortcut so you don’t have to memorize the shortcuts. I think that it is very useful and that is how I started with a custom made Pro Tools keyboard shortcuts skin from Amazon. They are fairly easy to find and price is good for what you are using it for. The link below is where you can find the Pro Tools Shortcuts. Hope this helps and enjoy. Mix Master Rozay out! Link: http://akmedia.digidesign.com/support/docs/Pro_Tools_Shortcuts_74634.pdf