Split, copy and paste clips and use J, K and L on the timeline
Pick several parts of a video on the timeline, split a clip, copy, cut, paste and duplicate, redo, and move around with J, K, L and the arrow keys.
01Pick one part or several
Every part of the Video row (a clip, a picture, a collage or a title card) has a numbered tab in its own colour, such as 2 · Picture. Click a part to pick it, and its page opens on the right with Part 2 of 5. Cmd-click on a Mac, or Ctrl-click on Windows and Linux, adds a part to those picked or takes it away. Shift-click picks every part from the one you last clicked without Shift, and Cmd+A or Ctrl+A picks them all. The card says how many are picked, and Esc keeps only the part whose card shows.
02Move parts by their tabs
Drag a part by its tab and the other parts make way before you let go; the edges of the block make it shorter or longer. Drag one of several picked parts and they all go along, in their order, to where you let go, while a press without a drag picks that part alone. Text, marks, layers and everything else that lies on a part move with it.
03Delete closes the gap
Delete or Backspace takes every picked part away, and the parts after them move up, so the row has no gap. What lay on a part you took away goes with it. The Video row keeps at least one part: with every part picked, the Studio says The Video row keeps at least one part.
04Split a video at the play position
Put the play position where the cut belongs and press S, or Split under the preview. The video part there becomes two parts, cut on a frame and meeting with a straight cut, and the row stays as long. Whatever lies on the second half goes with it when you move that half. Only a video part can be split: on a picture, a collage or a card the Studio says Only a video part can be split. A picture, a collage or a card gets shorter by its edge. With a sound piece picked, S splits that piece instead.
05Copy, cut, paste and duplicate
Cmd or Ctrl with C copies, X cuts, V pastes and D duplicates. They work on the parts picked, or on the one text block, mark or layer block picked. Pasted parts go in after the parts picked, or else between the parts where the play position lies, and come in picked. A pasted block starts at the play position with its own length: a layer block on a layer with room there, a numbered step with the next number. Duplicate puts the copy right after the original. What you copy stays ready while ClipHearth runs, so you can paste it into another video too.
06Undo and Redo
Undo in the header, or Cmd+Z or Ctrl+Z, takes the last change back. Redo beside it brings back what Undo took: Cmd+Shift+Z on a Mac, Ctrl+Y or Ctrl+Shift+Z on Windows and Linux. A new change empties Redo. Cancel in the Updating the video window also takes a change back, and that one does not come back with Redo.
07J, K and L
L plays, and each further press while it plays runs faster: 2×, 4× and 8×. Above the normal speed the preview is silent. J runs backwards, faster with each press, and K stops either. Hold K and press J or L to step one frame back or forward. The speed shows beside the time, for example 2× ▶ or ◀ 1×, and a pause ends the fast run, so the next play is at normal speed with sound. Space still plays and pauses. Up to 1.8.1 J and L jumped 5 seconds; the -5s and +5s buttons still do that.
08Jump between edits and frames
The up and down arrows jump to the previous or next edit: the edges of the parts, the starts and ends of text blocks, marks, layer blocks and zooms, the chapters and the parts cut out. The left and right arrows step one frame, with Shift one second, and Home and End go to the start and the end of what you keep.
09When a key does nothing
The keys work anywhere in the Studio except while you type in a text field or work in the Words view, and a slider you are using keeps the arrow keys for itself. While Updating the video shows, the Studio waits for it, and Esc is the same as its Cancel.
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