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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, Delete removes it, and again

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.
  • P never needs a selection. It drops an interest point at the playhead, and any shot that contains that frame picks it up. See Interest points.

Get around a source

  • Double-click a shot's band on the source timeline to jump to its in point. The selection stays as it was.
  • Click the shot that is already selected in the list to jump back to its in point after wandering off.
  • 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

  • Select, then edit once. Ctrl-click or Shift-click rows, then change a field in the detail panel. The change lands on every selected shot.
  • 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. 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 Organize shots.
  • Select from the bottom up. Drag upward from the empty space under the last row.

See Describe a shot for every field.

Right-click menus on the shot-list tab

Right-click You get
A shot row Delete Shot, Duplicate Shot and Reveal in File Browser. With several shots selected, the labels count them, for example Delete 3 Shots.
A video's header row Open This Video, Collapse or Expand, Detect Shots…, Reveal in File Browser, and Remove Video… with its shot count in the label.
A shot's band on the source timeline Split Shot at Frame with the frame number. It splits at the playhead, not where you clicked.
An interest point Remove Point. Double-clicking the point removes it too.
Three interest points dropped with P, one removed with a double-click and one through Remove Point