![]() If you want to select a whole word, you’d hold down CTRL-Shift and an arrow key. If you want to select one character to the right or left you hold down the shift key and press an arrow key. If you want to move the cursor one whole word to the right or left, you hold down CTRL and an arrow key. If you need to move the cursor, you use the arrow keys. Think about what you’d use if you were editing a document in Microsoft Word. (Yah…I know…it’s a bonkers implementation choice.) It’s an utterly bizarre choice considering that probably the entire computer-using population of the universe would expect to do this with the arrow keys. To move the edit head left/right, you use the comma (,) key and the period (.) key. Easily the all-time, gold medal champion weirdo keyboard shortcut is the one that moves the edit head left/right. Fix Camtasia 9 Keyboard Shortcut AnnoyancesĬamtasia 9 has some really unusual choices for keyboard shortcuts. You can change these settings by going to Settings > Devices > Wheel in Windows 10. NOTE: my AutoHotKey script assumes that you’ve gone into the control panel in Windows and mapped F7 to “left” and F8 to “right”. Most of these mouse gestures work if you have the Microsoft Surface Dial, too. Now, I’ll freely admit that I’m very lucky that I’m right-handed because if you’re left-handed, you’re pretty much out of luck with this mouse…but there are left-handed mouses out there with extra buttons and you should be able to tweak my AutoHotKey scripts to make them work. I think this is a lesson learned from being a jazz pianist - for efficiency reasons, pick a hand position and stay there! Extra buttons on the Logitech MX Master mouse In short, wherever my right hand was, I wanted to be able to use it to do what I needed to do without having to keep moving back and forth. I also wanted to be able to do most of my editing moves directly from the keyboard. I wanted to be able to use those thumb controls on my mouse to do things in Camtasia so I could hopefully save myself a bunch of hand repositioning moves. ![]() My mouse is the Logitech MX Master and (in addition to the standard left button, right button, and scroll wheel) it also has a thumb wheel and two other thumb buttons. Repositioning my hands took time and broke my workflow…and I was doing it hundreds of times per day. One of my biggest frustrations while editing in Camtasia 9 was that I kept needing to lift my hands off the keyboard and mouse and vice versa. Repositioning My Hands to/from Mouse & Keyboard In my case, the application is Camtasia 9 and the scripts I wrote created new keyboard shortcuts and mouse gestures in Camtasia that I could use to speed up editing my videos.ġ) Zooming the clip window in/out and scrolling the clip window right/leftĢ) Moving the edit head right/left and selecting right/left These scripts describe a series of actions that get played back against a target application. AutoHotKey lets you create scripts that you can attach to keyboard shortcuts. After some hunting around, I found a product called AutoHotKey. After a while, I started wishing for a way to automate some of the repetitive tasks that I was doing. With that much time spent in Camtasia, you probably won’t be surprised to find out that I found myself doing a handful of actions again and again and again and again. I easily spent at least 100 hours editing videos in Camtasia. In order to get a version of the videos that was clean enough to send to my video editor, I estimated that it took me 4 minutes of editing for each minute of raw footage. For my most recent course, I recorded more than 28 hours of raw video before editing that down to just under 9 hours of produced video. As a Pluralsight author, I spend a lot of time in Camtasia.
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