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Tella has keyboard shortcuts throughout the app to help you work faster. You can also press Shift + ? in the editor or video view page to open the shortcuts panel.

General

Editor navigation

These shortcuts let you quickly jump between tools in the editor sidebar.
These keys switch between tools in the left sidebar, they do not toggle a panel open and closed. Pressing 1 always opens the setup panel; pressing it again while setup is already open does nothing. The editor’s left sidebar is always visible and there is no way to hide or collapse it. Escape closes the command menu only, it does not close the sidebar. You do not need to close the sidebar to keep editing, just pick another tool or click your video on the timeline or canvas.

Editor playback

Editor tools

Layout editing

When you have a layer selected in the editor, you can move it with the arrow keys.

Layout timeline

When the layout tool is open, you can select and rearrange segments on the timeline with your mouse or trackpad. These gestures also appear in the shortcuts panel (Shift + ?) under the layout tool.
Every selection change is a single undo step, so ⌘ + Z steps back through your selections as well as your edits.

Video player

These shortcuts work on the video view page.

Video view page

Recording

On Windows, replace with Ctrl and Option with Alt.