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Editor shortcuts

Everything the editor listens for. On macOS, Cmd replaces Ctrl in every chord. The Edit and Arrange tables are the command registry’s own bindings; menus and the command palette print the same chords, and a test pins this page to the registry, so the table cannot drift.

Tools

Section titled “Tools”
Key Does
V Select tool
H Hand tool (pan)
T Text tool
R Rectangle
O Ellipse
L Line
A Arrow
M Insert media
Esc Cancel the drag, else back to select, else exit the group, else clear the selection

Edit

Section titled “Edit”
Chord Does
Ctrl+Z Undo
Ctrl+Shift+Z (or Ctrl+Y) Redo
Ctrl+X Cut
Ctrl+C Copy
Ctrl+V Paste
Ctrl+D Duplicate
Ctrl+A Select all
Del (or Backspace) Delete

Paste re-mints element ids, so a copy never collides with its source, and nudges the copy when it lands on the same slide.

Arrange

Section titled “Arrange”
Chord Does
] Bring forward
[ Send backward
Ctrl+] Bring to front
Ctrl+[ Send to back
Ctrl+G Group
Ctrl+Shift+G Ungroup
Ctrl+Shift+L Lock
Ctrl+Shift+H Hide

On the canvas

Section titled “On the canvas”
Input Does
Arrows Nudge the selection one canvas pixel
Shift+Arrows Nudge ten pixels
Ctrl (held while dragging) Bypass snapping, on the canvas and the timeline
Shift (while resizing) Keep the aspect ratio
Alt (while resizing) Resize from the center
Shift (while marqueeing or clicking) Add to the selection
Double-click Enter a group, or edit a text inline
Right-click The context menu for whatever is under the pointer

Timeline and transport

Section titled “Timeline and transport”
Input Does
Space (panel open) Play or pause
Space (panel closed) Step to the next build landing; past the last, the next slide
Shift-drag the ruler Arm a playback loop over the range
Esc Clear the loop
Del Remove the selected keyframe or build marker
Double-tap the ruler Split a build step

Timeline

Section titled “Timeline”

The verbs that act on time rather than on the canvas. None of them is an edit, so none of them lands on the undo stack — moving the playhead is navigation, and burying your real steps under it would make undo useless.

Input Does
I Mark in, at the playhead
O Mark out, at the playhead
Shift+I Go to in
Shift+O Go to out
Page Up Previous edit
Page Down Next edit
B Razor at playhead
Shift+B Razor all lanes
X Lift selection or marked range
Shift+X Extract marked range
Shift+S Timeline snapping
Shift+N Add lane
Shift+Del Ripple delete

Next and previous edit land on the frames where the picture actually changes: each scene’s start and end, and the frame it settles on after its incoming transition. They read the same timebase the compositor mounts against, so they cannot land somewhere nothing happens.

The page keys carry these rather than the arrows, because the arrows nudge the selected element on the canvas and the registry dispatches by key across every surface.

The razor and the ripple delete are the two edits here, and the only verbs on this page that land on the undo stack. It cuts every selected clip the playhead sits inside, as one step, and leaves the ones it misses alone. The halves play exactly what the clip played: the tail picks up the source where the head left off rather than restarting it.

The other six need a playhead to act on. A stage holding a settled still (slides mode, and master editing) has none, so they read as disabled there rather than marking frame zero, which is a real position and not an absence.

Everything else

Section titled “Everything else”
Input Does
Ctrl+K The command palette

Undo and redo also sit on the top bar as the two arrow buttons. In Present mode the presenter’s own keys apply: arrows and Space step, F is fullscreen, B blacks the screen, S opens the speaker window.

Where to next

Section titled “Where to next”