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How to Use Keyboard Shortcuts

These default keyboard shortcuts make your work faster. Try it out.

Key What this key does
CTRL + I Display a generic search bar
CTRL + N Create a new catalog
CTRL + O Open an existing catalog
CTRL + SHIFT + O Open the connect to server dialog
CTRL + P Show Preferences window
CTRL + Q Create a new actor
CTRL + E Edit selected actor. Checks the Actor Window first, then falls back to the Cast Window selection. If no actor is selected in either, opens the new actor dialog.
CTRL + W Add actor
HELP Display the help
F1 -- F8 Switch to Layout 1 -- 8
CTRL + F Display the Filter options
CTRL + K Shows the keywording window
CTRL +F5 Refresh all windows
ALT + Delete key Stops playing the video
ALT + Space key Pause/Play OR Play video from the start if the video is not playing
CTRL + S Add current video frame as video scene thumbnail
ALT + Enter Toggle full-screen mode
Esc End full-screen mode
Hold Ctrl Before pressing the Forward or Backward video player buttons to slow forward/rewind.
Hold Shift Before pressing the Forward or Backward video player buttons to fast forward/rewind.
Ctrl + Right Shift Increase playback speed for videos supporting it.
Ctrl + Left Shift Decrease playback speed for videos supporting it.
Delete When a thumbnail is selected, pressing Delete will remove that video scene thumbnail from the catalog.
ALT + L Select the next video in the catalog window
ALT + O Select the previous video in the catalog window
ALT + K Skip forward in video
ALT + SHIFT + K Skip forward x 2 in video
ALT + J Skip backward in the video
ALT + SHIFT + J Skip backward x 2 in video
ALT + Numpad 1-5 Assign keywords to the selected videos
CTRL + B Show Bin picker
Shift + Alt + R Refresh the search
CTRL+T Move to new web browser tab.
CTRL + SHIFT + T Move to new web browser tab.
I Update start of current clip in playlist
O Update end of current clip in playlist.
ALT + S When scrubbing over the thumbnails in the video catalog window, set the current thumbnail as the thumbnail for the video.
ALT + SHIFT + S Save Layout
ALT + Q Open keyword manager dialog.

You can change these shortcuts from the shortcut window and assign shortcuts to some actions that do not have defaults. You can also assign shortcuts to your custom actions.