Swift CG Keyboard Shortcuts

Regular users of Swift may find the following keyboard shortcuts useful to assist with streamlining the editing process.

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Keyboard Shortcuts

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1.0; 2.0

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Swift Keyboard Shortcuts

Regular users of Swift may find the following keyboard shortcuts useful to assist with streamlining the editing process.  Some of these are the same as ‘Windows’ shortcuts and so the user may be familiar with them already.  Some are bespoke to Swift.  The list below is a complete list of all shortcuts which we hope you find useful.

Application Shortcuts

F1

Enter Edit mode

Esc

Enter Playout mode

Ctrl + Delete

When in playout, exit the application

Graphic editing Shortcuts

G

Snap To Grid

W

Translation Tool

E

Rotation Tool

R

Scaling Tool

Ctrl

  • Alter the pivot point for the current tool (rotation and scale have separate pivots)
  • Choose between local and global axis for translation tool

Shift

Translate by slightly larger increments

Arrow Up/Down/Left/Right

Translate object by a small amount

Ctrl + F

Open the Find Node dialog

Delete

Delete currently selected node

Ctrl + X

Cut current selection

Ctrl + C

Copy current selection

Ctrl + V

Paste current selection

VT Shortcuts

Space

Toggle Play/Pause

Arrow Left

Jog Reverse

Arrow Right

Jog forwards

Project shortcuts

Ctrl + S

Save anything that has not been saved.

Dialog Shortcuts

F10

Show preferences

Playout Shortcuts

F4

Play Hotkey Script 1

F5

Play Hotkey Script 2

F6

Play Hotkey Script 3

F11

Delete Stack

F12

Abort all graphics

Keypad Enter

Take next graphic/method

Alt + nnnn

Load a stack called “nnnn.stk”

Camera Controls

Alt + Middle Mouse Button

Crab Crane camera

Alt + Right Mouse Button

Track camera

Alt + Mouse Wheel

Zoom camera

Alt + Ctrl + Mouse Wheel

Roll Camera

Debug Shortcuts

Ctrl + Shift + F12

Dump current frame at various stages of the video pipeline to files on disk.

Ctrl + C

Turn off metric sample marking.

Ctrl + S

Stop timing scope (Playout mode only)