# 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.

Where to find it: Video editor › ⋯ › Keyboard shortcuts

In the editor, the full list is also under **⋯ › Keyboard shortcuts**.

## Recording

**In the Mac app:**

- `⌘N`: New recording
- `⌘⇧2`: Stop
- `⌥⇧D`: Draw on screen
- `⌘⇧N`: New guide
- `⌘L`: Open the library
- `⌘,`: Settings

**In the Chrome extension:**

- `⇧⌘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
- `PgUp PgDn`: Previous or next step
- `Home End`: First or last step
- `⌥← ⌥→`: Move the focused step card left or right

> **Note:** On Windows and Linux, use Ctrl where a Mac uses ⌘.

## Read next

- [Search the settings](https://pointercam.com/help/search-settings)
- [Use the timeline](https://pointercam.com/help/timeline-basics)
- [Pause, stop or discard a take](https://pointercam.com/help/recording-controls)

Source: https://pointercam.com/help/keyboard-shortcuts