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Topic: Clip Bank Shortcut

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I have a stored a keyboard shortcut (the "A" key) which instantly recalls and plays the most recently Activated clip. When you are in the browser, this is very powerful shortcut, but I can have one of these. Is there a way to similiarly assign a clip directly to other keys? For example, shortcuts could be:

C = Clap Your Hands
E = Everybody Scream
B = Best Party In Town
N = Name That Tune

etc, etc.... for the most commonly used clips?
 
Posted Wed 20 Aug 08 @ 6:12 pm
True - I guess you can only have one previously active clip. So YES... direct access to very commonly used clips would be AWESOME!
 
great idea eric, i wonder if it would be possible to get some whizz kid to mapp this to the twelve hot keys on the rmx, assign one square/window to a particular key, would save sometime when needed quickly.

 
Or even to the F1 - F12 keys for those who don't use the RMX? Presently, F1 - F12 are audio samples which I never use. It would be great if we could assign frequently used clips to those keys.
 
ah the power of the search, I posted how to do this a long time ago :)

video_fx_button (Value is the clip number - 1, e..g: 0 = Clip 1, 1 = Clip 2, etc.)
 
I remember somebody saying this a while back, but I couldn't get it to work back then. This shortcut seems to only bring up a pop-up list of available effects - not any actual clips.

Could you be more specific as to how to assign a specific clip to a specific key?
 
I have been playing around trying to get this to work, but I am having a hard time. Here's what's going on:

I have about 15 clipbanks, each with 12 clips loaded. I have created a new clipbank (called FAVORITES) with my frequently used clips from all other banks repeated in this one clipbank. I am trying to assign each of these 12 favorite clips to the F1 - F12 keys, so all I have to do while I'm in the browser is hit one key (F1 - F12) that will simultaneously load, activate, and play that clip. I imagine you must use some combination of the following shortcuts:

video_select_fx
video_fx
video_fx_button

Could somebody help me here? Thank you!
 
Well, after several hours, I have found the right combination to make this happen... If you are naming your favorite Clip Bank "F KEYS", and you want to activate immediately when hitting F1 thru F12, then just copy and paste the following to your SHORTCUTS XML file, under My Documents / Virtual DJ:

<sc key="f1" action="video_select_fx" value="F Keys" />
<sc key="f1" action="video_fx_button" value="0" />
<sc key="f1" action="video_fx" />
<sc key="f2" action="video_select_fx" value="F Keys" />
<sc key="f2" action="video_fx_button" value="1" />
<sc key="f2" action="video_fx" />
<sc key="f3" action="video_select_fx" value="F Keys" />
<sc key="f3" action="video_fx_button" value="2" />
<sc key="f3" action="video_fx" />
<sc key="f4" action="video_select_fx" value="F Keys" />
<sc key="f4" action="video_fx_button" value="3" />
<sc key="f4" action="video_fx" />
<sc key="f5" action="video_select_fx" value="F Keys" />
<sc key="f5" action="video_fx_button" value="4" />
<sc key="f5" action="video_fx" />
<sc key="f6" action="video_select_fx" value="F Keys" />
<sc key="f6" action="video_fx_button" value="5" />
<sc key="f6" action="video_fx" />
<sc key="f7" action="video_select_fx" value="F Keys" />
<sc key="f7" action="video_fx_button" value="6" />
<sc key="f7" action="video_fx" />
<sc key="f8" action="video_select_fx" value="F Keys" />
<sc key="f8" action="video_fx_button" value="7" />
<sc key="f8" action="video_fx" />
<sc key="f9" action="video_select_fx" value="F Keys" />
<sc key="f9" action="video_fx_button" value="8" />
<sc key="f9" action="video_fx" />
<sc key="f10" action="video_select_fx" value="F Keys" />
<sc key="f10" action="video_fx_button" value="9" />
<sc key="f10" action="video_fx" />
<sc key="f11" action="video_select_fx" value="F Keys" />
<sc key="f11" action="video_fx_button" value="10" />
<sc key="f11" action="video_fx" />
<sc key="f12" action="video_select_fx" value="F Keys" />
<sc key="f12" action="video_fx_button" value="11" />
<sc key="f12" action="video_fx" />

It's a lot easier to repeat the pattern by editing the XML file directly in WORD, rather than building all these macros for every individual F Key.
This is going to make my life much easier, and hopefully some of yours' as well!
 
very well done eric, now here's a tester for you, until something similar is possible with the rmx how would i go about coding the number keys as i already use the f keys for drops, would they be 1,2,3, etc or 01, 02, 03.... thanks for any help
 
Tayla - you would use "1", "2", "3".... no zero. But you would have to delete the lines that refer to the shortcuts for looping, which is the default shortcut for number keys. Ashame to lose the looping.... I know you can assign "SHIFT F1", "SHIFT F2", etc....? Or "CNTRL F1", "CNTRL F2", etc... ??
 
Hmmm... I just tried swapping my old XML file with this new one that I manually edited in WORD, and none of my shortcuts work. So, I guess using WORD does something that makes the XML file inoperative. Is there any trick to modifying and saving an XML file using a text editor, so we do not have to build all these macros?
 
thanks for the reply eric...
 
@Eric,

What about using something simple like Notepad?

I know you can edit skins xml by using Notepad.
 
worth a try, bit of the old copy and paste
 
I tried using NOTEPAD, but it cannot save as XML format...
 
Yes, notepad can save as XML. Change the file type drop down to All files and name your file with the XML extension and leave the encoding as ANSI


I would download Notepad++ if you are going to be doing a lot of XML editing.

http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm
 
I did exactly that, and VDJ does not recognize it. Maybe notepad renames it as an XML, but it seems to actually save it as something other than that...
 
Well, I entered all my shortcut macros manually the old fashioned way. In addition, I set up a second bank that refers to several unused letter keys. So I have 2 banks that are directly assignable - one using F Keys, and one using certain letters. Here's the problem:

Every time I change from entering shortcut keys from one bank to the other bank, the clipbank freezes live in the output. I have to then manually de-activate that clip by navigating into the effect menus before I can continue.

So the question is... what command can I preface all shortcut commands that says something like... "DE-ACTIVATE ALL EFFECTS"?
 
This seems to be very randomn. I wonder... are having multiple clipbanks a resource hog? The CPU meter seems to look OK...
 


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