Another thing to contend with in moving to Windows (or just adding Windows as a platform to your comfort zone) is the keyboard shortcuts. Most of the Windows shortcuts are the same as Mac but with different modifier keys, (e.g. Mac Control = Win START... Mac Command is now Win Control) Juxtaposing these keys is a bit of a mindfart… especially if you find yourself switching between Mac and PC in different studios.
You can situate things so that you use the Mac shortcuts across both platforms:
- Get a keyswapper program for Windows. "SharpKeys" is free and good.
- Map the Control key to the Start key
- Map the Start key to the Control Key
- Get an actual Mac keyboard and connect it to your Windows 10 workstation.
If you do the above, you’ll just use the Mac Shortcuts whether you’re on Windows or Mac. If you have Windows on your personal rig and wind up working on a Mac PT rig, you'll be comfortable. Same keyboard, same keypresses.
Worth mentioning:
- There are a small percentage of Keyboard shortcuts that don’t apply to just swapping keys.. but its not that many. you can reference Avid's shortcuts guide for that.
- This also swaps the Start and Control keys for the rest of Windows. To restore the normal keypresses (or to swap them in the first place), you have to reboot.
- You’ll probably want to remap the Start/Control keys on both sides of the Keyboard. So, 4 key remaps altogether.
-Steve