Keyboard shortcuts

Every key prism knows, in one place: first the keys on the app's own shortcut sheet, grouped as the sheet groups them, then the keys that belong to one panel or tool. Every shortcut works in both modes; the Simple ones are those Simple's sheet lists.

1How shortcuts work

• Where they work. Surface, layer and canvas keys work in Design. Keys marked “in the list” work when a row of the Surfaces list or a surface's Layers list has the focus. Show keys work in Show (a few in Design too).
• Not while typing. Keys don't fire while you type in a field, except Ctrl + Shift + C.
• Right-click for the rest. Right-click (or press and hold) a surface, a layer or the canvas for everything else; Shift + F10 or the Menu key opens the menu of whatever has the focus.
• The sheet. Press ?, or click the keyboard button in the top bar (Advanced), or Help “?” ▸ Keyboard shortcuts (Simple). It has a search field. In Simple it lists only the Simple keys; the others still work.

2General

3Surfaces

In the Surfaces list: ↑ ↓ Home End move through the rows (Shift extends the selection within a group); ← → fold or open a group; Ctrl/⌘-click adds a row, Shift-click a range, Alt-click selects its group; Enter / Esc finish or cancel a rename; Esc cancels a drag. See Surfaces list and groups.

4Arrange and groups

5Layers and the look panel

In a layer list, ↑ ↓ Home End select another layer. On a setting: right-click, Shift + F10 or the Menu key opens its menu; on a slider, the arrows step, PgUp PgDn step a tenth, Home End go to the ends.

6Canvas

While dragging: Shift keeps a move straight, a box's proportions and a circle round. In the Pen, Backspace takes back the last point. Del deletes only with the canvas, the page or the Surfaces list focused: on a scene tile, a Live control tab or a panel's button it does nothing to your surfaces, and in Draw or the Pen it never deletes the selected surface. See The canvas, Shapes and Draw and Pen.

7View

8Show

These are the project's show keys; change them in Live control ▸ Keys (Show keys).

In Show, the GO key means GO even when a button has the focus; Enter still presses buttons. See Show mode.

9Scenes and cues

On the tiles (not on the sheet): click fires and selects · Ctrl/⌘-click and Shift-click select without firing · double-click opens the options (without firing: in Design a click fires once the double-click time has passed) · right-click, Shift + F10 or the Menu key opens the menu · a row is one Tab stop: ← → Home End move, Enter fires, Tab reaches the tile's buttons · Alt + ← / → move a tile in the GO order. See Scenes and cues.

10Timeline

The timeline's keys (except Shift + Space) work while it has the focus: click a key, a lane or a track name first. See The timeline.

11Keys of panels and tools

These aren't on the sheet: they belong to one panel or tool.

12The projector window

The projector's own window has four keys of its own, whatever the show keys are:

See Projectors and outputs.

13When a key doesn't work

Related

Source-backed shortcut reference

This table is generated from the command registry. Tool-specific gestures and context are explained above. Mod means Ctrl on Windows or Command on macOS; a shortcut may require its panel or canvas to have focus.