Utilizing keyboard shortcuts and Keyboard Focus

In this video I want to show you some of the most essential keyboard shortcuts,…as well as some of my personal favorites.…First, let's start with the essentials, the spacebar, easiest one;…use it for playing and for stopping.…(Music Playing)…On a Mac you can press Command+Spacebar for recording, now you may have to…disable the Spotlight key command, so Pro Tools can use this command.…On a PC, you can use Ctrl+Spacebar.…Probably your most used keyboard command will be undo, you can get it from the…Edit menu, but you'll probably just want to use Command+Z on a Mac, or…Ctrl+Z in Windows.…

And then your next favorite will probably be the save command, Command+S on a…Mac, or Ctrl+S in Windows.…I would recommend getting to know all the function keys.…The first four function keys 1, 2, 3, and 4 will take you through the…edit modes.…The next six will take us through the edit tools, F5 for zoomer, F6 for the…Trim tool, F7 for selector, F8 for the grabber, F9 for the scrubber, and F10…for the Pencil tool.…