Tuesday Tips: Mouse-Free Browsing

Here’s a few handy ways to navigate through clips and sequences in the Browser by using the keyboard:

• Press an A-Z key to select the first visible item starting with that letter.
• Press the Up/Down arrow keys to select the previous/next item.
• Press the Left/Right arrow keys to close/open the selected Bin.
• Press the Enter key to highlight the name of the selected clip for renaming.
• Press the Return key to open the selected clip/sequence into the Viewer/Canvas.

Martin Baker is the founder of Avid2FCP/Digital Heaven and an Apple Certified Trainer for FCP. During his 13 year editing career, as a freelance and at the BBC, he worked on a wide variety of edit systems including linear, Lightworks, Avid DS and Avid Symphony before switching to FCP in 2003.