Editor shortcuts

The editor keeps keyboard shortcuts focused on preview playback, range marking, seeking, and timeline navigation so browser, form, and media controls stay predictable.

Shortcuts only control the editor when focus is not inside an interactive control or dialog. They are ignored while typing in inputs, using selects, pressing buttons, adjusting sliders or scrollbars, or working inside export and framegrab dialogs.

Preview playback

Marking and seeking

I, O, Shift + I, and Shift + O match Premiere-style mark and jump behavior. Bracket keys and arrow-key seeking are Cliparr conveniences.

Setting In or Out clamps the range to the media duration and keeps Cliparr’s minimum clip length intact. Second-based seeking stays inside the media duration and resumes playback when the preview was already playing.

Frame stepping and zoom

K + J, K + L, -, and = preserve Premiere muscle memory. Page Up and Page Down are Cliparr-specific aliases for single-frame stepping.

Frame stepping pauses the preview and moves by the active source video frame rate when Cliparr can detect it. If the frame rate is unavailable, Cliparr falls back to a 30 fps step.

Editable timecodes

Click the preview time, In, or Out timecode to type an exact time.

Timecode fields accept seconds, minutes and seconds, or hours, minutes, and seconds. Examples include 90, 1:30, and 1:02:03.

Pointer controls

Most editor actions are controlled directly on screen:

• The timeline always spans the full media duration. The media block represents the selected clip range.
• Drag the media block to move In and Out together, keeping the clip length.
• Drag either block edge to adjust In or Out. Click the empty media row or ruler to scrub the source.
• Focus the block or either edge and use arrow keys for precise adjustments; Page Up and Page Down adjust by one second.
• Use the zoom buttons to change timeline scale.
• Drag the scrollbar body to navigate the full video. Drag its edges inward to zoom in or outward to zoom out; zoom changes proportionally to the current view, so fine subtitle adjustments stay precise on long videos.
• Zoom out to fit the full media duration, or zoom in to inspect subtitle timing. Scrollbar handles, zoom buttons, and wheel zoom share the same limits.
• Scroll the timeline to move horizontally.
• Use Ctrl/Cmd + scroll over the timeline to zoom around the pointer.
• Use the volume slider and mute button to control preview audio.

Working with long videos

Use the scrollbar body to move through the full source, then drag a scrollbar edge inward to zoom in until subtitle cues are easy to read and adjust. Drag outward to zoom back out. The thumb’s width follows the zoom level, while its position tracks where you are in the video; its width continues to change even when only a few seconds are visible.

With the scrollbar body focused, Left and Right Arrow pan a small distance, and Page Up and Page Down pan most of the visible view. With an edge focused, these keys adjust zoom instead. These controls leave the playhead and clip boundaries in place. The zoom buttons keep a visible playhead at its screen position, or keep the center of the view when the playhead is offscreen, until the view reaches a media boundary.

Zoom out to see the entire source when choosing a new moment, or zoom in for subtitle timing. Moving the media block changes only the export range; subtitle cues stay aligned with the source. The In and Out timecodes remain available for exact boundaries.