Keyboard Shortcuts

Every binding below is the default and every one can be changed: Ctrl+, opens the key map. Ctrl+K opens the command palette, which finds any command by name without needing a key at all.

On macOS, read Ctrl as Cmd.

Transport

Pace

The mouse wheel changes the pace anywhere in the app.

Markers and chapters

Chapter and marker jumps stop at the ends. At the last chapter, "next" does nothing rather than wrapping round to the first — a jump to the top of the script in the middle of a program is never what anyone meant.

Appearance

These are the presenter's screen, not the editor.

Output

Script and project

View

Mapping by pointing at the button

Ctrl+Shift+K turns on mapping mode. The app paints a lit rectangle over every control that accepts a shortcut, with its current key printed inside. Click the one you mean, press the key, done.

That is the answer to the question the list above cannot give: what is this button's key? You are looking at the button, not scrolling ninety command names hoping to recognize one.

Three things worth knowing before you turn it on:

• The layer swallows clicks, including the play key. A band across the top stays visible the whole time saying so and how to leave. Esc exits from anywhere, and the header key stays lit while the mode is on.
• Sliders are not included. Pace, type size, margin, volume — nothing continuous is mappable: a key can only step a slider, and a step is not what those controls are for.
• It works with the show on air. Blocking it there would be deciding for you, and mapping a pad during a rehearsal is a legitimate thing to want.

A MIDI controller

The same mode accepts a pad instead of a key: click a lit rectangle and press the button on the surface. The binding is stored beside the keyboard one, so a command can have both.

The full list has three columns — keyboard, mouse and control surface — and the search finds a command by any of them.

Only note-style messages are read, which is to say pads and buttons, not faders or knobs — the same reason sliders are out. Permission is asked once, and only the operator window ever listens.

Two families that never share a key

F1 F2 F3 are the three modes — whole screens, mutually exclusive. F5 F6 F7 F8 are the panels, which toggle on top of whatever mode you are in. They are kept apart: a key that sometimes replaces the screen and sometimes toggles a panel would be a key you cannot press without looking.