Keyboard shortcuts
Every key PointerCam answers to: recording in Chrome and on a Mac, the video editor, its timeline and preview, and the screenshot tools.
Mac appChrome
Where to find it
- Video editor
- ⋯
- Keyboard shortcuts
In the editor, the full list is also under ⋯ › Keyboard shortcuts.
Recording#
Steps for
- ⌘N
- New recording
- ⌘⇧2
- Stop
- ⌥⇧D
- Draw on screen
- ⌘⇧N
- New guide
- ⌘L
- Open the library
- ⌘,
- Settings
- ⇧⌘S
- Stop
- ⌥⇧D
- Draw on the page
The video editor#
- ⌘K
- Search the settings
- Space
- Play or pause
- ←→
- Step one frame, nudge a selection or retime a keyframe
- ⇧arrows
- Nudge in big steps
- C
- Crop the selected camera or screen
- K
- Add a keyframe at the playhead
- S
- Split the piece under the playhead in two, keeping every frame
- A
- Adjust which part of its take the picked piece shows
- X
- Cut one second out at the playhead, so the video gets shorter
- ⇧X
- Divide the layout card at the playhead
- L
- Loop what’s selected. Off plays the whole video
- F
- Fullscreen the preview
- ⌫
- Delete what’s selected
- ⌘Z
- Undo
- ⇧⌘Z
- Redo
- +−0
- Zoom the timeline in, out, or back to fit
- Esc
- Deselect, leave a crop or leave fullscreen
Pointer and mouse#
- Ruler or playhead
- Scrub. The preview follows as you drag
- Click a piece in the track
- Pick it, and the playhead comes to it
- Drag a piece
- Reorder it; a line shows where it lands
- Ends of the picked piece
- Trim; a shared edge after a split rolls both
- Double-click a piece
- Split it there, keeping every frame
- The bright stretch in Adjust
- Slide the piece along its take; same length, same place
- ⇧ + drag a piece
- Mark a stretch to remove it or zoom over exactly it
- ◆ chip on a join
- The transition, and joining the two back into one
- Double-click the zoom lane
- Add a zoom there
- Double-click the pacing lane
- Speed a stretch up or down
- Click the camera
- Select it. Drag to move, pull the handles to reshape
- Camera handles
- Corners keep its shape, edges reshape it freely
- Click the recording
- Select the screen. Drag to move, handles to scale
- ◆ on a selected block
- A keyframe. Drag to retime, click to edit
- ⌘ + scroll the timeline
- Zoom about the pointer; plain scroll pans
- Hold Alt while dragging
- Disable edge snapping
The screenshot editor#
- V
- Select
- T
- Text
- A
- Arrow
- S
- Shape: a rectangle, an ellipse or a star
- N
- Step, a numbered badge
- I
- Icon
- R
- Redact, to blur or pixelate
- C
- Crop the screenshot
- ⌘]⌘[
- Bring forward or send back
- ⌫
- Delete what is selected
The guide editor#
- ←→
- Previous or next step, while nothing is selected
- PgUpPgDn
- Previous or next step
- HomeEnd
- First or last step
- ⌥←⌥→
- Move the focused step card left or right
Read next
Search the settingsPress ⌘K in the editor and type what you see or what you want, like shadow or silence. Each result says where it lives, and Return opens it.Use the timelineThe timeline lays the video out left to right, with a lane for each kind of change. Drag the playhead to scrub, and zoom the timeline with + and −.Pause, stop or discard a takeEvery take has a small bar with the clock, Draw, Pause, Stop and Discard, and keys that work from anywhere. The Mac app keeps its bar out of the video.
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