I can advance the video frame by frame on my Mac with Command + (numeric keypad) no problem, but when I want to go back with Command - (numeric keypad) it won’t move and resizes my score size instead. How can I fix that? Score size should just be Command regular keypad + or - but it seems there is a wrong assignment somewhere. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Other than the period on the numeric keypad not being available to dot a note value, very few commands on the numeric keypad function differently than those on the regular keyboard. I suspect this comports with the Dorico Team’s desire to make Dorico fully accessible from a laptop keyboard, many of which do not include a keypad.
Obviously that does not help with your concern, but perhaps explains it a bit.
Is there another way to move timecode back frame by frame? The forward works fine.
Try assigning a new key command to the Play > Previous Frame command on the Key Commands page of Preferences.
Have you tried pressing the " - " key on the numeric keypad without the Command key?
(Added some time later):
I have had a look in the Key Commands page of Preferences, and found that Play > Previous frame also has Command+F7 assigned to it. If that doesn’t work, try adding the fn key to that combination (this will depend on your keyboard settings in System Preferences/Settings).
The preferences Play>Previous Frame already has Cmd+Num- assigned to it as well as CmdF7. The Problem is that when I do the Cmd Num- command it shrinks the score size. Cmd F7 doesn’t work at all. Perhaps if I could delete the score size command it would work, but I can’t find the score size command anywhere. Steven below suggested just the Num- key without Cmd. That works, it only goes back in seconds, not frames, but then I can advance in frames.
I don’t think the thing that’s interfering with the Previous Frame command is a Dorico command. It sounds like something else on your computer might be intercepting that key.
You are right! Cmd - is a standard Mac command to resize. Apple does not provide access to disable it, therefore it interferes in Dorico. I’ll just do the work around of Num- to go back seconds and Cmd+Num+ to go forward in frames. I was used to Cubase where I could actually scroll the timecode on the display.
In MacOS, I use a script like this:
mapKeypadPeriod2Period
if [ $1 ]; then
hidutil property --set ‘{“UserKeyMapping”:[{“HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc”:0x700000063,“HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst”:0x700000037}]}’
else
hidutil property --set '{"UserKeyMapping":[{"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc":0x700000037,"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst":0x700000063}]}'
fi
Though I’ve had mixed results with the period=dotted functionality, It might work better for your use case.