Learn Media Composer Lesson 10: Keyboard Settings

Kevin P. McAuliffe
Toronto Canada

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In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe discusses probably the most important setting, and that is the keyboard setting. He also shows you, how in conjunction with the command palette, you will be able to map just about any command to any button on your keyboard or editing interface, and even talks about why you might not want to do just that.

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