OpenShot Video Editor

Keyboard shortcuts

Asked by kaleda

What I'm missing in OpenShot is keyboard shortcurts.
When editing, I keep pressing my keyboard arrows [<-] [->] and space to find correct cut point.
What I would like, is to have a common keyboard shortcuts, like:
F3 and/of '[' - for mark the beggining of the clip (cut and delete clip from the beggining to cursor position)
F4 and/or ']' - for mark the end of the clip.
's' or 'x' or some any key - to split clip at current position - this shortcut is essential !!!

Without keyboard shortcut - editing is like a minesweeper - a game with a mouse. You waste plenty of time just to "point and shoot" your mouse, and not editing the media you want.

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Andy Finch (fincha) said : 		#1

See the link below for short cuts in Openshot:

http://www.openshotusers.com/help/en/ar01s04.html#sect2_20

In addition, since the manual was written there have been a couple more added:

c = cut all tracks whereever the playhead is currently located
Ctrl + s = save
Ctrl + z = undo
Ctrl + y = redo

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kaleda (kaledos) said : 		#2

'c' - thank you for it! It helps a lot!

Though I would still suggest some more shortcuts to have cut-and-trim the begining/end.

I think putting an example here is the best.

Lets say '#' is cursor point

You have
[Prev scene][Curre#nt scene][Next scene]
you press some shortcut (e.g. F3, "i" or "["), and you get
[Prev scene][nt scene][Next scene]

And in the prev example the same could be possible for the end (e.g. F4, "o" or "]") and you get
[Prev scene][Curre][Next scene]

Hope you understand, what I mean.

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Deactivated Account (narren96c-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#3

I would suggest a shortcut to insert clip into timeline (to end of the last clip).
Thank you for your good work!

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Glenn Hancock (glennh-gmail) said : 		#4

Couple questions: 1) Do you have help on your editor? It looks clean but seems to have very little useful functions at the moment. For example, I open a clip up but have no menus to allow me to do anything with it. It seems I have to actually drag to the time line and then grab ends and drag it like I want. If I'm going to have multiple scenes from same clip I actually have to split the track and save for later. Any other program I've used (Final Cut Pro and others) there are ways to mark my (in) and (out) points on the preview clip and then drag just that area into my time line without further work. Is there a way to do this in your program?

Also, why is dragging the time slider so slow? Its completely useless for actually working with the video. I'm currently running on a 3.3ghz 8gb RAM VERTO GeForce FT240 system with SSD drives so hardware should not be the problem. I"m running final cut pro on a much lesser Macbook Pro system with only 4gb of RAM that performs perfectly. I would like to try your system out but at the moment I'm not seeing how you actually edit videos with it.

Also, if I were interested in helping out with the development, do you have any quick start guides to show how you have things laid out and working?

Thanks,

Glenn

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