keyboard shortcut for Edit Preview?

BillHansen

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Feb 28, 2012 14:37

Is there a keyboard shortcut which would let me bring up the Preview player (in Edit mode) full screen? That would sure save me a lot of keystrokes.

Reason for asking: I'm still very much in the stage of learning how to make my videos look their best - especially the DVD versions, which seem to be more difficult than the AVCHD ones. I find myself going back and forth between the time line and the Preview quite often. At this stage in my learning process, I still need to see the Preview at full screen size.

For that matter, is there a collection of keyboard shortcuts for PD 10? If there is, I've missed it when going through the manual/user's guide. A Google search didn't turn up anything helpful either. I'm hoping that such an animal exists, and that I just missed it.

Bill Hansen

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Bill Hansen

ynotfish

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Feb 28, 2012 15:54

Hi Bill -

Ctrl+Enter will take you to the full screen Media Viewer... you'd be aware that the viewer is seriously low-res!

All the standard keyboard shortcuts are tabled in the Help file

or F1 - Appendix > Hotkeys

Cheers - Tony
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BillHansen

Senior Member Joined: Jan 03, 2012 12:43 Messages: 178 Offline

Feb 29, 2012 16:05

Tony -

Thanks very much for the info and the screen shot. For some reason, when I go to the PD 10 manual and bring up the Hotkeys page, all that appears on the right hand side is a big blank space.

The shortcuts for the pre-burn preview are quite helpful. I wish the Preview itself was as helpful. When it's previewing a DVD quality video, it drastically underestimates the amount of video noise which will appear on the DVD disc, once the disc is burned. In fact, DVD quality vids even look less noisy when burned to the computer's HD than they do on the final disc. I'm very gradually learning how to cope with it, but I'm disappointed that the process depends largely on guesswork. AVCHD's are not that way - they look good both in the preview and in the final burned result.

Bill Bill Hansen

BillHansen

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Feb 29, 2012 16:11

Tony - I just realized that I confused two "previews" - the one in the Edit page, and the one on the Create Disc page.

The one on the Edit page is very handy for evaluating color, brightness, saturation, and it gives hints about sharpness. It's not an indication of video noise.

The preview on the Create Disc page is the one I wish were more accurate. To my way of thinking, it should at least be close to what I see in the final burned version. It's "in the ballpark", but it's way out near the left field wall, not as good as it sould be.

I haven't seen others complain about this, so maybe I'm the only one making DVD discs in addition to H.264s. It's a puzzle. Bill Hansen

Robert2 S

Senior Contributor Location: Australia Joined: Apr 22, 2009 05:57 Messages: 1461 Offline

Feb 29, 2012 21:00

If you had a very powerful computer with dual or quad video cards you might get close to actual quality in the preview window.

Honestly though the amount of processing power needed to render your video on the fly to final quality is immense. You might get it if it is just a simple split out of a couple of sections.

As soon as you start getting fancy with colour, brightness, fading etc etc your computer has to process those changes 30 times per second, save the information for burning and at the same time send a copy to the preview screen. I doubt a normal home computer is capable of doing this.

A solution, if you really want to check the final output before you do the final burn, you could use the burn to a folder option instead of to disk to process a short 10-20 second section of your timeline. My youtube channel====> http://www.youtube.com/user/relate2?feature=mhsn