🎹 Keyboard shortcuts and workflow

[mifi]

I want this issue to be a place where we can vote and discuss which functions shall be bound to keyboard shortcuts. You can leave an upvote on the shortcuts/functions you want the most, or add a comment with new suggestion(s).

• The main feature I'm working on implementing is user-customizable keyboard shortcuts

Ideally this would have an entry in "Settings" but a (text, json, ...) config file would be better than nothing

See #654 #726

‼️ Please leave a 👍 on the comments that you would like to see implemented below

[mifi]

👀Being able to change the seek time from 1 sec or 1/60 sec by using arrow-keys in combination with shift/ctrl/alt for different speeds (speed parameter in seconds adjustable for each combination). From VLC:

Very short backwards jump	key-jump-extrashort	Shift-Left
Very short forward jump	key-jump+extrashort	Shift-Right
Short backwards jump	key-jump-short	Alt-Left
Short forward jump	key-jump+short	Alt-Right
Medium backwards jump	key-jump-medium	Ctrl-Left
Medium forward jump	key-jump+medium	Ctrl-Right
Long backwards jump	key-jump-long	Alt-Ctrl-Left
Long forward jump	key-jump+long	Alt-Ctrl-Right

implementation in losslesscut:

• left/right will jump 1 sec (customisable in settings)
• ctrl+shift+right will jump 10 sec (customisable in settings)
• (unbound keyboard) will jump 60 sec (customisable in settings)
• ctrl/cmd+left/right will jump 1% of the timeline at the current Zoom.
• alt + left/right will jump to next/prev keyframe

[alsab200]

Keyboard Shortcuts: I dont know if its already included but frame by frame would be very helpful..
Best implementation is in Potplayer, my experience, f for Forward d for backwards..
To me most important thing is if you press f key continously playback would be like slowmotion and flawless.. More importantly frame-BACK dont work in most of the most known video players.. You can try, with mp4 files especially, it works "flawlessly"
If you can achieve it here would be great..
Also thank you for implementing our suggestion for saving the project..

[Fujosej]

Hi there , love LC.
I tried latest 3.11.0 release and here are some thoughts.

-It would be nice if i can change the amount i wanna scrub/seek with my mouse scroll , right now it scrubs/seeks for 6+ seconds and thats it.

-There is also a bug i think with mouse scroll , when i zoom in using ctrl + mouse scroll , regular scrub/seek with mouse scroll no longer works after that, only if i set it to zoom 1x.

-About paning the timeline , i think an automatic pan would be really nice if its possible , right now when i am zoomed in , it gets stuck in one place and i dont have mouse scroll left / right binds. The only solution is to change zoom level and it snaps back to playhead.

-It's nice , but in my case i need a setting to change my arrow keys to 1/5/10 sec seek.

-Jump to cut start / Jump to cut end, need a hotkeys , or a custom one , every user should be able to set it to whatever they want.

-Another insteresting addition would be a bind to toggle back to zoom 1x and whatever zoom you were in.

I think ultimately , there has to be a rebind feature for every user to change their hotkeys to whatever they are comfortable with.

[davidp57]

First, thanks a lot for this excellent tool that is very efficient !

I don't know if it's been said elsewhere, but I found disturbing that after having pressed L a few times to increase playback speed (btw it works perfectly, and does not stutter at all, not like in Adobe Premiere 👍 ), when I press K two times it does not go back to playing at 100% speed.
Not sure that I am clear, so let me try another way :
Expected : L L L L L L (500% speed) K (pause) K (100% speed)
Actual : Expected : L L L L L L (500% speed) K (pause) K (500% speed)

Again, thanks !

[mifi]

from #691 (comment)

• Export Keyboard Shortcuts. PDF would work. In the endI usually put mine in Excel so I can keep track of the ones that I customize ;)

[mifi]

From #1170 :

I want to check where my current position actually is. By playing. If it is what I want, I have to go back to the position, inaccurate.

• Separate pause and stop (jump back to where you started playing or clicked with mouse) (+ keyboard) keys. Video editors generally prefer to use the stop behavior. Some use enter/space to differentiate them.

[mifi]

From #1284 :

• Select the segment in which cursor is currently on the timeline

[Fred-Vatin]

• It would help a lot if kbd shortcuts were shown when hovering the buttons in the UI.

[mifi]

• Shortcut for centering timeline view to playhead Shortcut for centering timeline view to playhead #1492

[vertigo220]

Similar to what davidp57 said (which should be an option as to whether it reverts back to 100% speed after pausing or not), a missing command is to do so manually. In addition to keys to speed up and slow down playback, it should allow a key to be assigned to toggle between 1x speed and the last set speed. For example, if it's sped up to 4x, pressing that key would slow it back down to 1x, and pressing it again would return it to 4x.

[mifi]

• Shortcut to directly change playback speed to a fixed or custom value want to set the default playback speed of the video to be edited.  #1865

[mifi]

Hotkeys to manipulate tracks (from #1917 #1937). Something like:

• disable all tracks
• enable all audio tracks
• enable all video tracks
• enable audio track number #N
• enable video track number #N
• toggle audio tracks enabled
• toggle video tracks enabled
• toggle subtitle tracks enabled
• toggle attachment tracks enabled

[starfishpatkhoo]

From #1284 :

* [ ]  Select the segment in which cursor is currently on the timeline

+1 for this keyboard shortcut...

Currently I need to create multiple recap videos (and such) from a single source video. It's faster through Losslesscut. I just load the video, go through it, then press "B" to split into segments at cursor (instead of "I" and "O"). Then select/mark the ones I want, and export+merge. Then go through again and reselect different segments for a different recap video. The saved Project file also keeps a list of all segments so later I can go back and reselect different segments as needed easily.

Just that at the moment, I need to use the mouse to select/unselect individual segments, whereas all the other steps are keyboard driven. So would be great for a keyboard shortcut to select/unselect or mark/unmark the current segment. 😄