Manual · Chapter 17
Keys and preferences
The keyboard shortcuts and how to change them, layouts for Premiere Pro and CapCut users, the theme, the language and the lessons.
Keyboard shortcuts
A command's key, where it has one, is shown beside it in the menus. Help, Keyboard shortcuts lists them all, grouped by menu. Shortcuts work anywhere in the studio, except for the keys a field or a slider uses itself while it has the focus (typing, the arrows). On a Mac, Cmd takes the place of Ctrl.
The ones you will use most
| Key | Does |
|---|---|
| Space | Play or pause |
| S | Split at the playhead |
| Delete | Delete the selected clips |
| ShiftDelete | Delete and close the gap |
| CtrlZ | Undo |
| CtrlShiftZ | Redo |
| ArrowLeft ArrowRight | A frame back or forward |
| ShiftArrowLeft ShiftArrowRight | A beat back or forward |
| AltArrowLeft AltArrowRight | A bar back or forward |
| Q W | Trim the clip's start or end to the playhead |
| I O | Mark in, mark out |
| M | Add a marker |
| N | Snapping on or off |
| ShiftK | Snap cuts to the kicks |
| V B Y U R | Select, Blade, Slip, Slide, Roll tools |
| ShiftG | Graph editor |
| ShiftR | Reverse |
| CtrlG | Group |
| CtrlL | Unlink video and audio |
| CtrlC CtrlX CtrlV | Copy, cut, paste at the playhead |
| CtrlAltV | Paste attributes |
| CtrlShiftC | Copy properties |
| CtrlShiftV | Paste properties |
| = - 0 | Zoom in, zoom out, fit the edit |
| CtrlS | Save |
| CtrlE | Export |
| CtrlShiftH | History of edits |
Changing them
In Keyboard shortcuts, choose a Preset: DriftEdit's own, Premiere Pro or CapCut, so the keys your hands know work here. To change one key, click its shortcut and press the keys you want; Escape keeps it as it was. A key taken from another command is removed from it. Reset to preset puts one back; Reset all puts them all back. Signed in, your keys follow you to your other devices.
The theme
System follows your device's light or dark setting; Dark, Light and High contrast choose one. Pick it from the theme button in the top bar. The website and the studio share the choice.
The language
Help, Language chooses one of the thirteen languages the studio speaks: English, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), French, German, Italian, Russian, Turkish, Indonesian, Hindi, Japanese, Korean and Simplified Chinese. The website and the studio share the choice. Captions from speech understand 99 languages, whatever the studio's language.
Lessons and the tour
Help, Take the tour walks through the studio in a minute. Help, Lessons has short lessons on each part of the studio, each pointing at the part of the screen it talks about: auto mode, cutting, effects, techniques, sound, captions and export.
Other preferences
- Proxy, under the viewer: playback from lighter copies (on), or from the original files (off).
- Safe areas, over the viewer: where phone apps cover the picture.
- The music grid, beside Snap: bars and beats on the timeline.
- Full power, in the Export window when Smooth motion or Perfect quality (AI) is on: the models use more of the graphics card, faster, with the rest of the computer slower meanwhile.