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why on Earth would anyone want a second keyboard lonus asked me when I tried to

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show him this project I've been working on for quite a while well let me tell

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you it's not for everyone but if you are a productivity freak like me the concept

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might really appeal to you basically this entire keyboard has been converted

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into a set of 87 fully programmable

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macro keys

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processors check out the link in the video description to learn more so to

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give you some background on why I need a second keyboard I'm the video editor for

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most of the videos that go up on this channel that's a lot of videos and the

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more quickly and efficiently I can edit them the better now fast and efficient

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video editing relies heavily upon keyboard shortcuts so much so that

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inside Premiere I assigned functions to all the numbers letters and symbols all

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the function keys the entire numpad and most of the reasonable combinations of

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control shift and ALT that's a lot of shortcuts and yes I do use all of those

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on a daily basis it's easy to remember single key shortcuts but the more keys

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you need to press in a row the more difficult it is to not only remember the

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key combination but also to physically press those keys that's what macro keys

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are good for if you don't know a macro key will basically launch a

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pre-programmed series of keystrokes and or Mouse clicks which you would

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otherwise have to press manually every time for example let's say I'm editing a

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video in Premiere and I want to reverse a clip on the timeline to do this I

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could click on the clip Mouse over to the clip menu select speed duration

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Mouse over to the panel that appears click reverse and then Mouse over to

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enter and click on that this takes a few

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seconds to do alternatively I could just press one single macro button which

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automatically executes the keystrokes controlr tab tab space enter which

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accomplishes exactly the same thing but in a fraction of a second that's the

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power and usefulness of a keyboard macro

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Gamers will use macros in Games like World of Warcraft DOTA Starcraft League

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of Legends and so on but pretty much any game can be made easier with macros and

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keyboard macros are also really useful for certain jobs like video editing

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animation graphic design programming Music Creation and I don't know

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accounting maybe I don't really know what accountants do all day but pretty

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much anything that involves heavy computer use and repetitive tasks

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usually macros are just a series of blind keystrokes and mouse clicks but

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you can make even more powerful macros

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using Auto hotkey auto hotkey is a free

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brilliant little program that you can use to completely automate repetitive

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tasks remap Keys intelligently simulate

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clicks and keystrokes and do a lot more stuff that I don't even understand I've

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used auto hotkey to program a ton of useful features for Premiere Pro that

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don't even exist in the application itself like recalling saved Transitions

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and applying effects directly onto selected Clips but my problem now is

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that I use so many macros and so so many keyboard shortcuts that I have now

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physically run out of keys on the keyboard and what can you do then well

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we have a few of these cool little Tech Keys keyboards lying around the office

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so I experimented with those we also have a razor orb weaver which is

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actually pretty awesome and it's been designed for this exact purpose all of

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its keys can be remapped to any key or key combination you desire now since

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you're still restricted to standard keyboard Keys what I like to do is

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program the keys on these extra keyboards to execute very obscure key

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combinations like Control Alt F1 and

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then I program Auto hotkey to listen for these key combinations and then execute

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whatever function I desire the trouble is if you do too much of this it's tough

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to remember what combinations you've already used and what combinations all

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your various different applications might already be using but you know what

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the tech keys keyboards and the orb weaver still don't have enough keys for

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all the extra functions that I want and

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these keyboards are surprisingly expensive and that's when it hit me why

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can't I just hook up a second keyboard to my computer well it turns out that

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Windows will treat every keyboard that you plug in as one keyboard you can plug

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in all the keyboards you like but your computer cannot tell the difference

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between them bummer fortun Ely one of my

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Twitter followers linked me to this video by Tom Scott who successfully got

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14 keyboards to work as their own separate inputs he used a program called

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Lua macros which was actually developed for flight simulator enthusiasts who

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want to have a lot of switches and buttons for their virtual cockpits great

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so it is possible now all I needed to do

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was figure out how to code in Lua and

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find a way to get Lua Ma R to communicate with auto hotkey which is

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where all of my functions already are Tom Scott had done this but he didn't

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provide any of the necessary details like you know sample code then it

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presses the f24 key that's after quite a

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bit of frustration I finally figured out how to do it my second keyboard now

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works as its own unique input and every

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single one of these Keys acts as a macro button which will launch its own Unique

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Auto hotkey script so here's how you do it first download Lua macros and auto

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hotkey plug in both of the keyboards you want to use run Lua macros and open up

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quick start. Lua then click on the play

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button you'll get a prompt asking you to identify device macros which will become

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the name of your second keyboard all you need to do is press any key on that

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second keyboard luam macros will now recognize it as such and those key book

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will now be intercepted by Lu macros and therefore blocked from normal typing

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once you get that working you can write your own code or download and use my Lua

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code which basically just writes a small string to a file on disk and then

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presses the f24 key download my auto hotkey script or write your own and

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double click on it to get it running an icon for that script will now appear on

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the taskbar now anytime the f24 key is

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virtually pressed by luam macros this Auto hotkey script will read the

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string in that file and execute the correct Associated function Tada I knew

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it would be difficult to remember which key did what so I created a bunch of

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keycap images in Photoshop printed them cut them out and taped them onto the

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existing keys if you do this keep in mind that your key caps will not

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necessarily be compatible with every slot on the keyboard so you may have to

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be careful to maintain the underlying quty layout although for me I think it

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was just the F and J Keys the keyboard that I used for this project was the

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Logitech k120 and it's nothing special

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at all any cheap or old keyboard will work perfectly when using the second

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keyboard it does take about 2 seconds to look down find the key you want move

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your hand over to that key press it and then move your hand back to the primary

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keyboard so it's best to use the secondary keyboard for secondary

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functions that you don't need all that often if you want to try building and

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programming a second keyboard I will be providing all the necessary code in the

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video description you're welcome and before you say it I know that my code is

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sloppy and suboptimal I know but guess

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what it still works so if any of you

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real programmers out there want to complain about my messy code I sure

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would appreciate it if you could provide a functional sample of some code that

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will work even better a great place to do this will be in the Linus Tech tips

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discussion thread that is associated with this video also linked below

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there's still a lot to figure out like using modifier keys and double tapping

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to launch a different function in fact Lua macros itself is just a side project

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of a single man with very little free time it's not even out of beta and it's

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still got a lot of bugs the good news is the software is open source so if you

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can help to make Lu macros better I really suggest suggest that you do I

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think it would be great if we could use the power of our community to improve

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useful Niche software like luam macros

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personally I'm very satisfied with my secondary keyboard and I'm really

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