Understanding Button Mapping
Mapping user-selectable buttons allows you to reconfigure Command palettes or the keyboard in various combinations to suit different editing needs.
  When you map buttons to the keyboard, the mapping might be specific to the current editing mode. For example, buttons mapped to the Page Up or Page Down keys revert to the default functions when you enter Effect mode. After you exit Effect mode, the keys return to the mapped function.
The following examples illustrate button mapping:
  Subcataloging clips: You can map the Make Subclip button and other clip management buttons.
Make Subclip
Find Bin
Add Locator
  Complex layering and effects editing: You can map buttons such as Motion Effect, Remove Effect, and Fade Effect.
Motion Effect
Remove Effect
Fade Effect
When you remap buttons or commands, the system stores your new configuration in one of the default settings that you can open from the Project Window. You can also save, rename, and recall multiple versions of any of these settings to serve various purposes.
The Avid application stores button configurations as follows:
  Changes to the Keyboard palette are stored in the Keyboard settings.
  Changes to the Tool palette are stored in the Interface settings.
Both of these settings are stored in the User settings.
See Also
Mapping User-Selectable Buttons

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