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Elgato Integration
Hi Robbie. I do not find it easy to use keyboards that are not traditional, so I was looking at Elgato StreamDeck. To be honest, I do so much Ctrl+C and Crtl+V that I expect my fingers to go wonky soon. Mostly copying and pasting from storyboards into storyline. In the end I went for a Loupedeck Live, cause it is adaptable to so many other applications, i.e. Adobe CC various ones. A trade-off between the cost of a simple programmable 9-keys' keypad and something with also 6 rotary controls. One of which, I hope (still have to find a keystroke for that - if it exist) would be to move the timeline left/right (another would be changing the time zoom in the timeline). Though these key-strokes are not listed in Articulate list of shortcuts (DOES ANYONE KNOWS THE COMPLETE LIST and/or HAD ANY SUCCESS AT MAPPING THEM TO A ROTARY CONTROL OF SOME SORT?). It surely works well with Adobe PremierePro. So all in all, I went for the expensive option and that has so many buttons/layers that I will hardly ever run out. Let's see.
If you're interested in a totally extravagant addition to your workstation, I have played with the Elgato foot pedal. It excels in recording videos (switching cameras/scenes, muting audio, etc.) where you don't want to keep touching a keyboard, but before upgrading my keyboard, I did enjoy having the left pedal set to copy, the center set to select all, and the right set to paste.
I also am using a customizable trackball and briefly experimented with devoting a couple of its buttons to copy/paste, but the foot pedal is much better for it.
I don't know of any keyboard shortcut document more complete than the one that Articulate already puts out. It's pretty comprehensive, but as you point out, it doesn't include shortcut keys for the timeline.