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.
