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Hello,
whenn working with LRTimelapse and Lightroom you periodically have to save and load metadata to or from files to transfer settings between LRTimelapse and Lightroom. There is a keyboard shortcut for saving metadata to files (CTRL+S, Cmd+S). Unfortunately there is no keyboard shortcut for loading metadata from files.
For Mac OS X there is a feature built in the OS which allows to define shortcuts for every menuitem of an application, for details follow this link (thanks to Christoph Malin for pointing this out on Facebook).
I found a solution for Windows as well. Just download the tool AutoHotkey and then create a text file called e.g. Lightroom.ahk (the file extension .ahk is important) with the following content:
Then start the script by double-clicking it.
This assigns the hotkey CTRL+SHIFT+L to the "Load metadata"-item in the main menu of Lightroom (only when Lightroom is active).
You can even put the script in Windows autostart to always activate it when starting the computer.
This script checks if a window with a title containing the text "Adobe Photoshop Lightroom" is active and then sends an internal windows message to that window with the parameters to activate the menu command (0x111 = WM_COMMAND and 0x9D5C = Load metadata).
Regards
Christian
Update: I removed the ID from the script because the ID of the menu-item depends on the installed plugins. So I have to figure out a way to get the correct ID from Lightroom.
whenn working with LRTimelapse and Lightroom you periodically have to save and load metadata to or from files to transfer settings between LRTimelapse and Lightroom. There is a keyboard shortcut for saving metadata to files (CTRL+S, Cmd+S). Unfortunately there is no keyboard shortcut for loading metadata from files.
For Mac OS X there is a feature built in the OS which allows to define shortcuts for every menuitem of an application, for details follow this link (thanks to Christoph Malin for pointing this out on Facebook).
I found a solution for Windows as well. Just download the tool AutoHotkey and then create a text file called e.g. Lightroom.ahk (the file extension .ahk is important) with the following content:
Code:
^+l::
SetTitleMatchMode 2
IfWinActive, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
{
;ID of menu-item removed since it depends on the installed plugins :-(
;SendMessage, 0x111, (id of menu-item), 0,, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
}
Then start the script by double-clicking it.
This assigns the hotkey CTRL+SHIFT+L to the "Load metadata"-item in the main menu of Lightroom (only when Lightroom is active).
You can even put the script in Windows autostart to always activate it when starting the computer.
This script checks if a window with a title containing the text "Adobe Photoshop Lightroom" is active and then sends an internal windows message to that window with the parameters to activate the menu command (0x111 = WM_COMMAND and 0x9D5C = Load metadata).
Regards
Christian
Update: I removed the ID from the script because the ID of the menu-item depends on the installed plugins. So I have to figure out a way to get the correct ID from Lightroom.