Hi,

This page doesn't go into how one can find and save customized keyboard shortcuts onto an external medium so that one can take them with them in case they have to work on someone else's Pr. The process of locating the customized .kys files is in fact not easy on Mac OS 10.6 and exceedingly difficult on Mac OS 10.7. (since the Library folder is hidden) The location of my .kys files was MaindriveHDD/users/userfolder/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Premiere Pro/6.0.

It took me a while to find these files because they where unexpectedly in the folder "Adobe". I guess I was expecting there to be a folder "Premiere" higher up in the path.

I wonder why these files are hidden in the first place, but that's another story.

Even after watching the video, I was not able to locate my customized keyboard layout. I am on a PC and I am wondering if it is different than on a Mac as in the video.

Thanks

Are you sure that you checked the Library under user's? I can't believe it's not there. Try looking again after you created a new custom keys file. The folder maybe empty before a custom key set has been made... Pretty strange if it's not there if you ask me.

...and "yes" I did create and save a custom keys file.

It's just nowhere to be found.

Anyone?...

Yes.  I did that.  NO results.

I also made sure that I searched both "visible and invisible" files.

No dice.

The only 4 files that show up when I search for .kys is...

Default Keyboard Shortcuts.kys

Default Keyboard Shortcuts.kys

Illustrator Shortcuts.kys

Illustrator Shortcuts.kys

That's it.  Nothing else.

I even tried following the "path" to get to the .kys file...

MaindriveHDD/users/userfolder/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Premiere Pro/6.0.

No dice.

I'd REALLY like to find this file so that I can load it onto my other system and save it on drop box for easy access if I'm ever working on a different system.

Anything else you can think of?

This is not funny. I can't find the folder anymore either. At least not on my MacBook Pro, running Lion. I'll check my Snow Leopard machine on Moday.

Yeah...I'm running MacBook Pro on Lion.

I'll check on my MacPro system next.

The default presets are in the Adobe Premier Pro CS6.app itself (show package contents) in the folder "contents/Keyboard Shortcuts".

Whoes going to be the first one to mess around in there? ... I have my .kys file saved from when I could still find it. ... should I ... shouldn't I...

OK I did it.

Nothing bad happened. But nothing good happened either. Actually nothing happened.

I added my Keyboard .kys file to the ones the preset keys that show up normaly:

"Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5.kys"

"Adobe Premiere Pro Factory Defaults.kys"

"Avid MC 5.kys"

"Final Cut Pro 7.0.kys"

I added

"ABC.kys" to the list but it didn't show up when I restarted Pr CS6 (by the way also from creative cloud)

Strangely enough I have a folder "en_US" and a "zh_CN" folder with the same named .kys files in the "Keyboard Shortcuts" folder (in the Pr.app package).

Odd stuff... but I know I probibly shouldn't be poking around in there.

Apparently the Keyboard .kys files I found in the .app package are also just there for show.

First of all, Pr CS6 also has a Keyboard preset called "Adobe Premiere Pro CS6.0" which is not in this folder.

... so I trashed the "en_US" folder to see what happens... and nothing happened after restarting Pr. All of the Keyboard presets where still available.

... so they are in there somewhere... but only the Shadow knows.

@ Kevin Monahan: Do you have any answers for this post?  Do you have a solution for us?  Or did Adobe just "let go" of any ability to transfer my "already created" keyboard settings to another computer?

Please reply.  I would like to do this sooner than later if it's still do-able.

OK I got it.

A friend told me about something he stumbled upon. This is for CS6 from creative cloud running on Mac Lion.

Create a custom Keyboard setting in Pr.

Click on the "Go" command in the Finder command bar, hold down the "alt" key while the drop-down window is open, this will reveal a hidden "Library" option.

This is not the same Library as the one in which I have been searching for my .kys files! This is another Library, a different one, a mystery Library ... OK it's the user Library, I've been looking in the System Library the whole time.

There it is under:

Application Support/Adobe/Premiere Pro/6.0/my.kys

Can anyone confirm.

Kevin, that IS me.  Post #30.

How in the world did your friend stumble upon this marq5.1?  That's craziness.

It's a tale of two Libraries, four Adobe folders, two Premiere Pro folders (one in Application Support and one in Preferences, I actually also have a PrmierePro folder as well in my Preferences Folder), two 6.0 folders, a operating system which makes it difficult to access any of the Libraries and the normal confusion of a typical work day.

The trick with the "alt" Key + Command Bar "Go" is so secret that not even the Apple geniuses who tried to help me with another issue don't know about it. My friend literally absent mindedly hit the alt Key while in the "Go" menu and noticed that something changed there.

@ Jim Curtis: It would be intersting to know how you managed the "madonna" trick what is "EasyFind"? is that a program?

The Library under USERS is hidden (for Mac LION users).  Open Your Finder, Hold OPTION and CLICK on "GO" from your top menu in Finder. Select Library.

Got to Application Support > Adobe > Premiere Pro > 6.0

Your KYS file should be there.