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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.

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General

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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 when it is open and clears selections in timeline tools, but 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.

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Editor playback

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Editor tools

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Layout editing

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

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Cut, Layout, and Zoom timelines

These gestures work on the canvas timeline shown by the Cut, Layout, and Zoom tools.

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Layout and Zoom cards

When the Layout or Zoom tool is open, you can select and rearrange cards on the timeline with your mouse or trackpad.
Range and multi-card selection gestures are undoable, so ⌘ + Z can step back through those selections as well as your edits. Clicking one card to navigate does not add an undo step.

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Video player

These shortcuts work on the video view page.

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Video view page

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Recording

These shortcuts apply to the web recorder.
On Windows, replace ⌘ with Ctrl and Option with Alt.

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Windows app recording shortcuts

The Windows app lets you set your own shortcuts for:
  • Start and stop recording.
  • Pause and resume recording.
  • Cancel and restart recording.
  • Open Speaker Notes.
Open the Windows app settings to choose each shortcut. Tella tells you when a shortcut is already taken by another app or could not be registered, so you can choose another combination.