How to set up a Logitech MX Master for Premiere Pro

How do I set up an MX Master for Premiere Pro in Logi Options+?

Start in Logi Options+, Logitech's own app. It sets the MX Master's buttons, gestures and haptics, and it has app-specific settings for Premiere Pro. Logitech's page describes features rather than every screen, so the steps below name each feature, not the exact button labels.

1. Install Logi Options+. Logitech offers it for Windows 10 or later and macOS 14 or later, plus a Googlebook download. On Logitech Support you can search for your product by name, model number or part number, and the Downloads and Apps section has the latest software.
2. Add Premiere Pro as an app. Under app-specific customization, Logi Options+ lets you use the preset settings or define your own actions. Logitech names apps including Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, Chrome and Teams. For the MX Master 3S, Logitech lists predefined customizations for Premiere Pro.
3. Start from the preset, then change one button at a time. Logitech doesn't publish what its Premiere Pro preset puts on each button. Press each one in a test sequence and note what it does before you change it.
4. Add gestures. Options+ can assign gestures to any mouse button: hold it and move up, down, left or right. That gives one button four more Premiere actions without using up another key.
5. On an MX Master 4, set haptics. The Haptic Sense Panel gives feedback on the actions, shortcuts and notifications you choose, and you set it up in Options+. Windows 11 also has native haptics, from the update at the end of March 2026 onwards, controlled from Windows settings. You update the mouse firmware from the Options+ device settings page.
6. Try Actions Ring. It is an on-screen overlay that brings tools to the cursor. On the MX Master 4, you personalize its shortcuts and download plugins for third-party apps in Options+. Logitech doesn't publish the default trigger, the number of slots, or whether the MX Master 3S supports it.

The Options+ page shows no price. It also lists Flow, which controls several computers and operating systems and moves text, images and files between them. The other listed features are Easy-Switch, Smart Actions, a Marketplace, Spotlight effects, and pointer and scroll adjustment.

Which Premiere Pro actions belong on the MX Master's buttons?

Put the edits you repeat every few seconds on the buttons under your thumb: split at the playhead, ripple delete, play and one-frame steps. Commands you use a few times an hour belong on a gesture or a wheel, where a slower pick costs nothing.

The mouse should always send a key Premiere already understands. This page doesn't repeat Premiere's keys. Look them up in our full Premiere Pro keyboard shortcut list and the page on cut, razor and ripple delete shortcuts.

Some actions have no key by default. Others have a key that clashes with your plan. In either case, first change the keyboard shortcut in Premiere Pro, then point the mouse button at the new key.

How do I set up an MX Master 3S or MX Master 4 for After Effects?

Set up After Effects the same way, but expect to define the actions yourself. Logitech's list of app-specific examples doesn't name After Effects. The MX Master 3S page says the mouse is customizable in virtually every app you use with Options+.

These After Effects defaults are the ones most worth a button. They are copied from Adobe's After Effects keyboard shortcut reference.

Change a shortcut in After Effects before you map it

1. Open Edit › Keyboard Shortcuts, or press Ctrl+Alt+' on Windows or Option+Command+' on macOS.
2. Read the keyboard layout. Gray keys have no shortcut, purple keys are application-wide and green keys are panel-specific. Hover over a key to see the full command name and whether it is an Application or Panel shortcut.
3. Find the command in the Command list, select it and type the shortcut, or click in the shortcut column and press the keys. You can also drag a command onto a key or onto the Key modifier list.
4. If a conflict warning appears at the bottom, the clashing command is highlighted in blue. Use Undo or Clear in the lower right.
5. Save your set with Save As.

After Effects has two limits. First, it won't let you reassign A, E, F, L, M, P, R, S, T or U, either single or doubled (AA, EE and so on). Second, a Panel shortcut with the same keys as an Application shortcut wins while that panel is active. That can make a mouse button look broken when one panel has focus. On macOS, shortcuts on F9 to F12 may clash with system shortcuts.

If you also run mouzeclick, check one more clash. Its Orbit switch opens with F9 by default, the same key as Easy Ease. Move the Orbit switch to another key or a mouse button. The full reasoning is in our guide to Easy Ease and its F9 shortcuts. The rest of the keys are on the After Effects keyboard shortcut list, and the editor steps are in how to change keyboard shortcuts in After Effects.

What changes between the MX Master 4 and the MX Master 3S for editing?

For editing, the published differences are haptics and Actions Ring. Both exist on the MX Master 4. Haptics are not available on the 3S, and Logitech doesn't say whether the 3S supports Actions Ring. The MX Master 4 figures below come from Logitech's MX Master 4 Special Edition page, checked on 3 November 2026.

mouzeclick treats the two mice alike: it reads only their standard buttons, scroll and tilt.

Where mouzeclick fits (we make it)

We make mouzeclick, so treat this section as ours. mouzeclick is a mouse app for Windows and Mac. It puts per-app shortcuts, macros, gestures and three wheels on any mouse, with no driver. On an MX Master it uses the five standard buttons (left, right, middle, Back and Forward), scroll and tilt. The gesture button, thumb-wheel modes and haptics stay with Logi Options+.

What it adds on those buttons:

• Eleven slots per button. Tap, hold and move in four directions, a chord with another button, or hold and scroll. Any button can be the gesture button, left and right included; a quick tap still clicks.
• Per-app behaviour. Back can cut a clip in Premiere, switch tabs in Chrome and paste everywhere else. It changes the moment you switch windows.
• The Premiere Pro Tool wheel. It has 112 tools in 12 segments. They include your installed effects, all sixteen label colours in a 4 × 4 grid and all eight marker colours. Nine anchors, Fill frame, punch in, slow zoom and a shake that dies away are there too. You build it yourself: drag tools onto segments, rename them, give them icons and colours, and lock finished ones. It opens with F10 or a held right button, with a delay you set from 80 to 600 ms, and a quick right click still opens Premiere's own menu. The details are on our page about Premiere Pro mouse shortcuts and the 112-tool wheel.
• The After Effects Tool wheel. It has 114 tools in 13 groups and four starting layouts. Each action is one undo step, and Null + Parent rigs take one flick. See the After Effects radial menu.
• Search effects. It finds every installed effect and transition, audio and plug-ins included. Enter applies it; Shift+Enter applies it and pins it to the Tool wheel. See what Search effects does.
• A shortcut library. There are 309 built-in shortcuts on Windows: 153 for Premiere Pro and 44 for After Effects. There are also ready-made wheels for Premiere Pro, After Effects, DaVinci Resolve, Photoshop and CapCut.

Setting it up on the same MX Master

1. Install mouzeclick and paste the key from the email. The trial is 3 days, with no card.
2. Press each mouse button once. mouzeclick builds its settings page around the buttons it sees.
3. On the Tool wheel page, press Install Premiere bridge (or the After Effects one), then restart the editor. One bridge panel serves both apps.
4. Open the panels from Window › Extensions, then hold F8, F9 or F10.
5. For a quick start, use Add editing gestures. It fills the empty directions: up plays, down splits, left undoes and right moves one frame forward.

Everything for both editors is on the Premiere Pro and After Effects tools page.

Where Logi Options+ is the better pick

• MX Master 4 haptics are set in Options+ (and, on Windows 11, also in the system settings). mouzeclick doesn't touch them.
• Actions Ring and its third-party plugins are Logitech's.
• The gesture button and thumb wheel are read by Options+, not by mouzeclick.
• DPI, pointer speed, scroll settings and firmware stay with Options+. mouzeclick never changes DPI, polling rate, sensor, battery or lighting.
• Flow controls several computers and moves text, images and files between them. mouzeclick doesn't do that: a key runs on one computer at a time.
• mouzeclick needs an internet connection while it runs. If the connection drops, its shortcuts pause and the mouse acts normally.
• If Logitech's Premiere Pro preset already covers your edits, you don't need a second app.

There is a longer, dated side-by-side in our Logi Options+ alternative comparison.

How do Logi Options+ and mouzeclick share one MX Master?

Give each part of the mouse one owner. Options+ keeps what only it can read. mouzeclick takes the standard buttons in Premiere Pro and After Effects.

A working split: in Options+, keep the gesture button, thumb wheel, haptics and pointer settings, and leave Back and Forward without Premiere-specific actions. In mouzeclick, set those buttons per app. If both apps act on the same button in the same app, you can't tell which one fired. One owner per button keeps each press doing one thing.

Does this MX Master setup work on Windows and Mac?

Yes, with one version floor and some Windows-only parts. Logi Options+ downloads for Windows 10 or later and macOS 14 or later. mouzeclick runs on Windows 10 and 11 and on macOS 12 or newer, on Apple Silicon and Intel. A Mac running both therefore needs macOS 14 or newer.

• On both systems: the mouse app with per-app buttons, chords, gestures, hotkeys and macros. Also the Options wheel, the Orbit switch, both Tool wheels, Search effects, the mouzeclick Toolbar and the 22 extensions.
• Windows only: the After Effects and Premiere Pro workspace panels, auto, styled and Hinglish captions, Retakes, cloud sync and in-app updates. The Mac app does not include the workspaces.
• Mac install: drag the app to Applications and allow it once under System Settings › Privacy & Security › Security › Open Anyway, because Apple has not notarized it yet. Then turn it on under Accessibility and Input Monitoring. The four steps are in installing mouzeclick on a Mac.
• Mac triggers: on a MacBook keyboard the wheels use Fn + F8 and Fn + F9. The Tool wheel opens with F10 or a held right button.

The shortcut library count of 309 is for Windows.

What should I check when an MX Master button does nothing in Premiere?

First check which app owns the button and which window is in front. Most dead buttons come from one of these:

• The wrong profile is active. Both Options+ and mouzeclick work per app. Click inside the Premiere or After Effects window, then try again.
• Two apps want the same button. Clear the Premiere action from the button in one of them.
• The shortcut changed in the editor. If you edited Premiere's or After Effects' shortcuts, the mouse may still send the old key.
• A panel has focus. In After Effects, a Panel shortcut with the same keys beats the Application shortcut while that panel is active.
• The Tool wheel won't open. Install the bridge from the Tool wheel page, restart the editor and keep mouzeclick running.
• An app runs as administrator (Windows). Apps running elevated ignore mouzeclick. Pick Restart as administrator in the tray menu.
• No connection. mouzeclick's shortcuts pause until the internet returns.
• Mac permissions. Turn mouzeclick on under Accessibility and Input Monitoring, then quit it and open it again.
• F9 to F12 on macOS. Adobe's After Effects reference warns that these keys may clash with system shortcuts.

On Windows, Ctrl+Alt+F12 stops mouzeclick at once. That tells you quickly whether a stray action is coming from it or from Options+.

Questions people ask

Sources

Checked on 2026-11-03. Prices and features change: each link goes to the maker's own page.

1. Logitech: Logi Options+ (features, platforms, haptics note), checked 3 Nov 2026
2. Logitech: MX Master 3S product page, checked 3 Nov 2026
3. Logitech: MX Master 4 Special Edition (haptics, sensor, scroll), checked 3 Nov 2026
4. Logitech: MX Master 4 product page (Actions Ring), checked 3 Nov 2026
5. Logitech Support: downloads and product search, checked 3 Nov 2026
6. Adobe: After Effects keyboard shortcuts reference and shortcut editor, checked 3 Nov 2026

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