I took quite a long time before I realised that you can, not only map keys to your keyboard, but also Commands.

I got an email from Tim in Australia asking me about a problem he was trying to solve in MC.
Before I had a chance to try and help he had already figured things out for himself.

Here is what he taught me.

Now you too can use the idea!

Regards,
Douglas

Thanks a lot Douglas. I was wrecking my head over this for quite sometime. Thanks Again!

This was originally posted over a year ago.  http://community.avid.com/forums/t/66049.aspx (and judging from my post, it seems that it had been asked quite a few times already by then) 

Hi Douglas!

It took me 5 months to figure this out! after I emailed you, I was in the command pallette & I thought I would just have a play with the 'menu to button reassignment' took me awhile before I finally got it! great to see you put up a video for it sometimes the Avid tutorials brush over the simple stuff if your coming from another NLE!

Tim.

cohort:

It took me 5 months to figure this out!

5 MONTHS????!!!!

Google:  "avid, using up and down arrows to zoom in and out" returned a great number of results in .31 seconds

and again most of the results were dated from Oct 2008 or so.  (right about the time that XpressPro was killed if I remember correctly and many people were upgrading)

Yeh I only started using MC 5 months ago, I figured everything else out in MC but it was just one of those things I couldnt work out in the back ground as I was going through everything else, I came from Liquid. I should have tried google! cheers!

Thank you so much douglas, i really wanted this for a long time.