Keyboard shortcuts to add keywords not working

I just looked at the Final Cut Pro command editor, and although the shortcut is assigned Control-1 (for example), it does say on the right "System reserved".

It seems that the developers of FCP left this as it has been, but at some point the OS took over these shortcuts.

At the moment the most obvious solution is to replace the shortcut with something like

Control-Shift-1 (and reeducate your muscle memory...)

Tom Wolsky wrote:

I see this for 1

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/80803631-3600-4bc8-a726-edafef883f3d

What OS version? I see "System reserved" in FCP 10.8.1 and in FCP 10.6.5 in Sonoma.

Maybe there is a way to disable the use of Control-number for switching Spaces, but I could not find it.

I will try to test later today, but:

Just to mak sure I understand correctly: Control-1, Control-2, etc work to add the keywords as expected, but ONLY when you set the layout to French (AZERTY) and not on US layout, nor Swiss layout - is that right?

In the cases where it fails, do you get any sort of feedback like a beep or anything?

mat1696 wrote:

In System Settings → Keyboard → Keyboard shortcuts → Mission Control you can disable these shortcuts under "Mission Control". Can you try this?

Face palm!

I had been looking this, but missed the disclosure triangle next to Mission Control!

You are absolutely right!

And by disabling them the usual functionality of these shortcuts in FCP is, of course, restored!

I have tested this now for a few minutes, as I had not had the occasion to use these shortcuts for quite some time (I usually assign keywords on import, using Finder folder names, or by selecting clips and dragging to an existing keyword collection, and have only very rarely remembered that these nice shortcuts exist).

I am using FCP 10.8.1 in Sonoma 14.6.1, in case that is relevant.

Here is what I found: Control-1, Control-2, and so on result in switching to Desktop (or Space) 1, Desktop 2, etc. This is what I get, regardless of the keyboard layout - I tested with US, British, German and French -, so my experience is different in this regard: it never works for me 🤪

I have not yet found any way to disable this functionality of switching to a numbered space. It seems clear to me that this system shortcut takes precedence, so FCP never receives the key press event, so for all intents and purposes, your command never reaches FCP. What is weird is how it works with AZERTY for you - I have no idea how that can happen!

I see this for 1

I'm in 8.1 in Sequoia. I have this.

“don't get any "beep" outside of FCP X for these same shortcuts”

Where else do you have these shortcuts applied? System level shortcuts will override application shortcuts.

The keyword shortcuts work as they should in FCP. I'm on a US QWERTY keyboard on a MacBook Pro.

It's in the lower right of the Command Editor. Opt-Cmd-K.