Changing shortcut button colors, Removing shortcut buttons, Saving and using custom shortcut button bars – Apple Final Cut Express 4 User Manual

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Chapter 10

Customizing the Interface

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Changing Shortcut Button Colors

You can change the color of individual buttons in a button bar.

To change the color of a shortcut button:

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Control-click any shortcut button in the button bar, choose Color from the shortcut
menu, then choose a color from the submenu.

Available colors are: Plain, Red, Yellow, Green, Cyan, Blue and Purple. The default color
is Plain (gray).

Removing Shortcut Buttons

You can remove one or all shortcut buttons from a button bar at any time.

To remove a shortcut button from a button bar, do one of the following:

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Drag the shortcut button you want to delete out of the window.

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Control-click the shortcut button, choose Remove from the shortcut menu, then
choose Button from the submenu.

To remove all shortcut buttons from a button bar:

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Control-click any shortcut button in the button bar, choose Remove from the shortcut
menu, then choose All from the submenu.

Note: In the case of the Timeline, which contains default shortcut buttons, choose
Remove > All / Restore Defaults from the submenu.

Saving and Using Custom Shortcut Button Bars

You can manually save the shortcut button bars that you set up in the Viewer, Canvas,
Browser, and Timeline. This is useful if you are working with others on a project and
want to use your shortcut button configuration. You can also load and use shortcut
button bars that others have created.

Important:

Button bars that you set up in Tool Bench windows are saved with custom

window layouts you create.

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