 In this video, I'm gonna show you how you can use keyboard shortcuts with the YouTube player in the browser so that you can be more productive watching YouTube. Hello and welcome to Take One Tech, my name's Alec. Now that introduction may have seen a little bit of a contradiction in terms really, being productive on YouTube, but of course you can be because if you are like me and like watching tutorial videos and, well, I'm guessing you do because you're on my channel after all, then you may do what I do, which is when I'm trying to learn a new piece of software, then I'll tend to have YouTube open on one screen or one side of the screen and then I'll have the software that I'm trying to learn open on the other and I'll be referring back and forth to the YouTube video and then to what I'm doing. And so what I'll often find myself doing is having to pause and rewind and review things because sometimes with me, it takes a couple of times for the information to sink in. So one thing that came up in the, I think it was the e-cam group or if not it might have been Dot Rock's Office Hours group, but it was the question of how can you quickly scrub back and forth through the video when you're on the desktop because on the mobile, obviously you can double tap on the side of the screen to skip forward and skip backwards, but on the desktop, then people tend to use their mouse. Now, a lot of people don't realize that there are a lot of keyboard shortcuts built into YouTube and in fact, Google is very good at including keyboard shortcuts for all of their web apps. So whether it's Gmail or Google Sheets and things like that, there are extensive support shortcuts, so definitely check out all of those. But today, we're talking specifically about YouTube. So let me tell you the shortcuts that are available and then also how I use them because you might have guessed, I've added keyboard maestro into the mix as well and I'll tell you why in a moment. But first, let's have a look at the keyboard shortcuts. So first of all, that is the wrong screen. First of all, here are the keyboard shortcuts. We'll come to that screen in a moment. Spoiler alert, you're gonna be seeing two of me. So apologies for that, you might wanna switch off now. So these are the keyboard shortcuts that we've got for YouTube and so basically you've got play and pause to toggle that on and off and it's just the keystroke of K. We've also got rewind and forward 10 seconds which is J and L, previous video, next video and so on. And as you can see, there are quite a few of them and quite a few ways actually to skip to different places in the video. So for example, if you type the keystroke by the zero through to nine, it will skip to that area of the video. So zero being the beginning, one being 10% of the way through, five being halfway through, nine being 90% of the way through and so on. And then you've also got to skip forward and backwards to different chapters. So if the creator has been very good and put in their YouTube chapters, then you can skip straight to a specific chapter as well. We've also got ways to toggle the particular view. So whether it's full screen, picture in picture, that sort of thing. And then we've also got some foreclosed captions and then also the spherical video which I don't intend to watch a great deal of myself but if you are watching one of those ones that was shot in basically with a 360 degree camera, it's actually more than 360, isn't it? Cause it's a spherical sphere but still it is, you've got the controls there for panning up and down and so on. And those are all assigned to keystrokes as well. However, there is a slight issue with this because if you are doing what I was talking about earlier which is I'm working on something but I've got YouTube playing separately. So maybe I'm watching a tutorial or maybe I've just got YouTube playing in the background or something like that. Then the issue that I have is that obviously the browser isn't the front most application. And so what that means is that if I just click the keystroke, for example, K being to play or pause then it won't do anything because the browser isn't at the front. So what I needed to do was make sure that I could control my browser and YouTube whilst I was in another application and keyboard maestro is perfect for that. So let me just show you the sort of methodology to do that with keyboard maestro. I'll just share the right part of my screen now. So here we go. We've got a keyboard maestro open and basically I've recreated almost all of those controls. The only ones that I didn't recreate actually were the spherical video ones because I don't really use spherical video that much. And if I do, I'm not so keen on that or not so interested in being able to control it whilst I'm in another app. I just can't see where that would come up for me personally. But I did create all of the other ones and I will run through all of these when I show you them on the stream deck. But just to show you the method that I've done for, I've used for all of these, you can see there's one for each of the commands. And basically in each of these commands there is only actually one action in keyboard maestro. By the way, if you're not familiar with keyboard maestro I have done an introduction to it. I'll leave the video up in the top corner. But basically there's no trigger because we're gonna be triggering them by the stream deck. And for that you don't actually need to assign a separate keyboard trigger in keyboard maestro. But then all we've got is the actual action that is gonna be performed and all it is is typing a keystroke. Now let me just show you quickly how to set this up because you can, if you just come into new action and then just start typing keystroke, you'll find it there, type keystroke. Now ordinarily it's gonna simulate that keystroke in whatever application that you are in. And so you can see here the title of it is it says type the return keystroke because it's got a return in there. Or if I clicked in there and typed, I don't know, say K it would type in K. But that is gonna do it in the front most application. What we wanna do is we want to actually do this in, in my case it's Safari. So you can see that here there's a difference between these two. This is the default one that I've just added in. But the one I've got here actually says type the keystroke K to Safari. Because if you click on this little cogwheel over on this side, what you can do is you can come down here and you can actually assign it to a specific application. So if I come down on this menu, you can see send to and then we've basically got a list of applications so I can say send to Safari. And what that means is now that I've got that set, it doesn't matter what application I'm in, it is gonna send that keystroke through to that other application, which in my case is Safari. So what that means is, let's say I'm doing something in an application, maybe watching an Excel tutorial or something like that. So I've got Excel open and I've got my YouTube video running with the tutorial. Then if I activate this, this one here, it's actually gonna pause the video, but it's gonna pause it in the background if you like. So I don't need to have it as the front most application. So just to quickly show you that in case it needed demonstrating, I've now got a video open. And if I come back to keyboard maestro, so I'm in keyboard maestro, and if I activate that macro, you can see it's pausing and playing this video. And I can do other ones, so I can do the one for, let's say I'll try the one for advancing the frame, or maybe go to, let's go to 40% of the video. There is a macro, which is basically gonna simulate typing the letter number four. So if I click that one, then it's jumped forward straight ahead to the position in the video. So that is basically how these work and they all work, as I say, just totally in the background. Now what I did do was I surprisingly enough, I created, as you might have guessed, a Stream Deck profile to do just this. So if I come over to my Stream Deck, and that is the wrong one, hang on a minute, I'll come to this one, there we go. That is the correct one, I get my Stream Deck up to the front, how disorganized of me. So I've created this Stream Deck profile. Now in the actual profile, this one here, this is gonna take me back to my take one tech, one that I'm using to control ECANN with. But in the actual profile itself, this is actually a record button that goes through to, oh sorry, a YouTube button rather, that opens up Safari with YouTube in it. So it's kind of like the way to activate YouTube if you like. And so I created all of these icons. And so let's just quickly run through what we've got here. So the first one we've got is the, in fact, let me start at this side, shall I? The first one we've got is the different viewing modes. So you've basically got viewing full screen, viewing theater mode, view in the pop out. So it's just a sort of picture in picture in the browser, the mini player it's called. And these three are all basically toggles. So pressing those will toggle it either on or often like reverting back to the regular view. This one here is if you've got the mini player open, then basically clicking this one will just close it down altogether. So you just back into the general sort of YouTube there. So it will effectively stop the video. We've also then got the play and pause button. Then we've got jump forward and backwards 10 seconds. So that's kind of skip forward. Also got the next and previous video. When you are paused, you also have the ability to advance by a single frame. This is really useful actually if you're watching stuff that's quite text heavy or content heavy, or maybe they're giving demonstrations of something specific where you want to get some information out of it. Then being able to pause it and then just sort of skip forward or backwards a frame or two just to get to the exact correct spot. Maybe you want to take a screen grab or something like that and that is useful. And we've also got these ones here where it looks like a, hopefully it looks like a timeline with some markers on it. Well, this is basically skip forwards and backwards to the next and the previous chapter marker. And then we've also got these ones here, these 10 going up in increments of 10%. This is basically skipping forward to a specific spot on the timeline. So zero being at the beginning, obviously 50% being halfway through and so on. So those are just simulating those keystrokes of zero through nine. Then also we've got some related to the closed captions here. So this is toggling the captions on and off. We've got this one here, which is simulating the transparency. So you can toggle the transparency of the actual text that's coming up. So this one you can see that one of the letters there, maybe you can't see it too well. I've got the sort of checker pattern that symbolizes transparency in graphics. And then this one here has got the checker pattern on the background and that is to signify that you can change the transparency of the background of your captions as well. And final two here we've got related to captions are increasing the size or decreasing the size of the writing, so font size. And then the final one here is just toggling on and off the mute on the video as well. I've also added a couple in here for the speed as well. So when you're watching YouTube videos, you can obviously say obvious, perhaps you didn't know, you can increase the speed of the playback and that goes up in increments of I think 0.25 or something like that. So one and a half speed, one and a quarter speed, double speed and so on. So I often do watch things at double speed if I can take any information quick enough. And so that's what those two are just there. So this is in a complete icon set. And as you can see, it is actually triggering a macro. So these aren't using keystrokes as in just the built-in keystrokes on Stream Deck where you can actually have them go to system and simulate a keystroke. So it's not that one. What this is, is this is using a plugin called KMLink. So if I come down to here, we've got this KMLink down here. And this is a plugin. There is a keyboard maestro plugin for Stream Deck but I find that KMLink is actually a lot easier to use and set up. And it's just basically, all it does is you drag it on as an action and then you just select the particular keyboard maestro action that you want it to run. And so in order to enable this, then what you'd have to do is just come into the store, go into the plugins and then just search for KMLink. So if I just come in here for a second, KMLink, you will find it in there, there you go. So you just need to install that. But then you can basically just go and assign that to assign your actions to any specific macro that you want. So I've obviously made this available on my store. So if I just come over to my store for a moment, in fact, I've got to come over to my website. Look at that. I've actually closed it down. That was a bit silly of me, wasn't it? So if I come back to my website for a moment, so if you go over to takeonetech.io slash store, or you can just come over to the homepage and click on the store up at the top, and then you'll see it there. And so that is the YouTube player icon pack. Now, what I've done is I've actually created, rather than just the icons, although it has obviously got the icons in it, what I've also done is when you get the download, then that's basically got all of the icons. So you can create these yourself on a stream deck or on your loop deck for that matter and just use these icons yourself, assigning the relevant keyboard shortcuts. But what I've also done is I've also included the macro group for keyboard maestro as well. So if you import that into your keyboard maestro, you'll then be able to just hook it straight up to stream deck because I've included the profile there as well. And so if you've got the 32 key XL, it actually fits perfectly on there. And so basically you need to just install the macro pack in keyboard maestro, which I'll show you how to do in a moment. Insert the profile, install the profile on your stream deck, which I'll show you in a moment. And then that's it, you're good to go. Now, the only one other thing I should point out is that in my case, as I say, I do use my YouTube with Safari. So when I come down to my keyboard maestro actions here, you can see that basically all of these are opening in Safari. If you use Google Chrome, you would need to just go through and change this application to, instead of opening in Safari, you would just come down here and go to send to Chrome or whatever browser you are using. But the keystrokes, the actual shortcuts themselves are all exactly the same. So that is how that would work. So let's have a little look, shall we? It's how you actually install the macro group into keyboard maestro. So what I'll need to do for this is I'll need to come into my demo mode for a moment. And then I'll just zoom into this top corner. And then here we can do to file, import, import actions. And so you just click on that one and then that would just bring up the regular file picker and you would be able to then select the macro group and it would just install them straight away into your keyboard maestro. Nothing more for you to do there. Then in terms of the stream deck, if I come into stream deck, if you want to install a profile in stream deck, what you need to do is come over to the settings, click on the settings, come over to here and then where you've got your profiles, you'll find there's a little dropdown arrow just at the bottom of the profiles list. Click on this one and then you'll see there's an option there to import and then you'll do the same again, just import the profile from the download from the website and then that would then bring that into your stream deck and then literally you would be good to go with that. So I hope that is useful. Now, obviously I am making the icon pack available for sale on my website but you can just go ahead and do this yourself and if you don't need all of these icons, then it's just good to learn these keyboard shortcuts because you might find you only need one or two of them and so you can perhaps just make your own little shortcuts in stream deck or just use the keyboard itself. 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