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A4, grouped by task, with separate Mac and Windows modifier columns.

While you're here

A printed sheet next to the monitor beats a browser tab, but there's a step better again: the shortcuts printed on the keys themselves, where your hands already are.

Editors Keys Media Composer wireless backlit editing keyboard

The Editors Keys Media Composer keyboard

Avid's default layout printed onto the keys and colour-coded by function, so playback, marking and trimming each read as a group. Backlit for graded suites, wired or wireless, Mac and PC. Used by teams at the BBC, NASA, Warner Bros., Rockstar Games and Pinewood Studios, and it ships with a free three-year warranty.

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Prefer something for a MacBook? The silicone keyboard covers carry the same layout and protect the keys at the same time.

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Two shortcuts a week is roughly the rate they stick. Pick a pair on Monday, force yourself to use them even when the mouse would be quicker, and by Friday they're free. Try to learn twenty at once and you'll remember none of them.

If you're not sure where to start, the four edit keys are the ones that change your day most: V to splice, B to overwrite, Z to lift and X to extract.

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