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Marking faster

The gestures and keys that speed up marking, reviewing and describing shots on a shot selects tab, each linked to the page that owns it.

Review detected shots without the mouse

After Detect shots fills the list:

  1. Press Shift+Alt+Right. The playhead lands on the next shot's in point and that shot is selected.
  2. Press Space to watch it, or Del if it does not belong.
  3. Press Shift+Alt+Right again for the next one.

While a shot is selected, Shift+I and Shift+O jump to its in and out points to check the edges, and S splits it at the playhead when it is really two shots.

Reviewing a batch without the mouse: the next-shot hotkey lands on each shot and selects it, and ++delete++ removes the ones that do not belong

Mark while it plays

  • I and O do two jobs. With nothing selected they start a new shot. With one shot selected they move that shot's in or out point instead. Press U to deselect before you mark the next shot. See Mark in and out points.
  • Draw a shot in one gesture. Hold Shift and drag across the source timeline, even over a shot that is already there. See Mark in and out points.
  • P never needs a selection. It drops an interest point at the playhead, and any shot that contains that frame picks it up. Double-click a point to remove it, or right-click it and choose Remove Point. See Interest points.
Three interest points dropped with ++p++, one removed with a double-click and one through Remove Point

Get around a source

  • Double-click a shot's band on the source timeline to jump to its in point.
  • Ctrl+L cycles the loop: off, the playback range, then the shot under the playhead.
  • Double-click the playback range slider to see the whole source. Double-click it again to get the range you had back.
  • Over the source timeline, the wheel steps a frame. Hold Ctrl and scroll to pan, or Alt to zoom around the pointer. Middle-drag pans too.

Move around a source has the rest of the timeline's gestures.

Describe many shots at once

  • Drag across rows in the shot list to select a run of shots. At the end of a long list, start the drag in the empty space under the last row and drag upward; a plain click in that space clears the selection.
  • Ctrl-click adds one shot at a time, and Shift-click takes everything between the row you clicked first and the one you click next. See Select in the list.
  • Select, then edit once. With several shots selected, change a field in the detail panel and the change lands on every one of them.
  • Copy a shown value to the whole selection. A field whose value differs across the selection is tinted. Click into it and press Enter without typing, and the value it shows is set on all of them.
  • Rate from the keyboard. Press Tab to the stars and press a number from 0 to 5. The arrow keys add or take away a star.
  • Filter as you go. In the filter box, rating:3 keeps shots rated three stars or more, -tag:wip leaves out anything tagged wip, and quotes keep a phrase together. See Filter the list.

See Describe a shot for every field. Every right-click menu on this tab is listed in Menus and windows.