When I hit control + option + R I get a good, quick shortcut to the speed dialogue. Since I do a lot with the "Duration" radial button, I'd love to be able to tab down to it, or use keyboard commands to quickly move to it. As it is now, I have to click the radial button with my mouse each time.
Any quick way to navigate radial buttons in FCPX, or at least for this dialogue?
You CAN navigate this using just the keyboard, but it is not something that you can't set specifically for this dialogue.
The setting is system wide.
Go to System Preferences->Keyboard->Shortcuts, and at the bottom there is this box:
Now you can tab to switch between all controls in all dialogues throughout the system (and not just the text boxes).
With this on, you can do:
Control-Option-R; tab, if necessary, so that the Rate button is active (note the added blue "ring" around it)
Arrow Down to select "Duration":
Note, again, that this change affects all dialogues, so if you do this every radio button, popup, etc will be selected via the keyboard.
The downside of it is that if you no longer can quickly cycle only over text fields, you'll have to go through all the elements.
Luis,
Quick question.
Yeah, I'm still on Mojave, and I get something that's a little different, but it has Ctrl+F7 to switch between text and lists vs all controls. Is this what you're talking about? Has this changed in Catalina or Big Sur? TIA!
I just tested, and I can confirm that Control-F7 still works in Big Sur as you described (though it is somewhat less accessible unless I set the touchbar to show function keys, but that has nothing to do with Big Sur, and only the fact that by default I prefer the touchbar to work as er... touchbar).
Whoa!
This did it! Thank you so much for such a thorough explanation, Luis. I knew there had to be a way.
Again, thank you.
I am not at my mac now and don’t have access to a mac running Mojave but yes, I think it’s the same thing. Maybe ctrl-f7 still works... I was not aware of this shortcut. Very useful
FCPX Time dialogue box
