Customizing the keyboard
Final Cut Pro X's keyboard shortcuts are greatly revamped and remapped from Final Cut Pro 7. Or, if you're coming from a different editing suite, keyboard shortcuts are going to be very different anyway. Luckily, FCPX has an easy-to-use keyboard shortcut editor.
How to do it...
1. Click on Final Cut Pro in the menu bar and select Commands | Customize, or hit Command + Option + K on the keyboard.
2. The Command Editor window pops up. To learn what each key is capable of in FCPX, click on it and look below the digital keyboard in the Key Detail box. Every possible command with every possible modifier key is listed! Additionally, the command list at the bottom provides you with a list of every possible command in FCPX and which, if any, keyboard shortcut has been applied to it.
3. FCPX doesn't let you modify the default layout, so we must create our own copy first. Click on Default in the upper-left corner of the window and choose Duplicate... Enter in a name for your...
