Keyboard Shortcuts

All keyboard shortcuts can be customized using the Action Editor. The shortcuts listed below are the defaults.


Default Keyboard Shortcuts

macOS
Windows
Action

Tab

Tab

Toggle scope tabs and main menu

ESC

ESC

Close active window (scope settings, preferences, crop, solo, etc.)

⌥F

Alt+F

Toggle fullscreen mode

⌥O

Alt+O

Toggle Stay On Top

⌥S

Alt+S

Toggle Solo mode for the scope under the mouse cursor

⌥H

Alt+H

Pause (freeze) all scopes

⌥B

Alt+B

Toggle current snapshot

⇧L

⇧L

Blend last snapshot

⌘B

Ctrl+B

Add a QC Timeline bookmark

⇧B

⇧B

Toggle blanking detection

⌘T

Ctrl+T

Toggle targets (View > Targets)

⌘,

Ctrl+,

Toggle Preferences window

⌥C

Alt+C

Toggle Crop window

⌥R

Alt+R

Reset crop

⌥D

Alt+D

Toggle input 3D LUT on all input sources

⌘⌥K

Ctrl+Alt+K

Toggle Action Editor window

⌥⇧A

Alt+⇧A

Toggle About window

⌥1…9

Alt+1…9

Load a saved layout by index (see the layout order in the Layout menu)

↑ ↓ ← →

↑ ↓ ← →

Navigate to next / previous photo (when viewing image files)

Solo Mode Navigation

When a scope is in Solo mode, use the arrow keys to cycle through scopes:

Key
Action

← ↑

Previous scope

→ ↓

Next scope

Mouse Interactions

Input
Action

⌘-click (macOS) / Ctrl-click (Windows) on slider

Turn slider into a text edit box for precise input

Mouse wheel on scope

Zoom in/out (see below)

Middle-click or double-click on scope

Reset zoom level

Hold ⌥ (macOS) / Alt (Windows) on scope

Show image preview (Waveform, Vectorscope, Channel Plot, Sat/Lum)

⌥-click (macOS) / Alt-click (Windows) on Source Signal

Drop a color pin

Middle-click on color pin

Remove the color pin

Drag on Source Signal

Draw a mask (hold ⇧ to make it permanent)

Drag on Histogram

Range selection (luma, saturation, or hue)

Drag on 3D Color Cube

Rotate the cube in 3D

Editable Sliders

Hold (macOS) or Ctrl (Windows) and click any slider to turn it into a text input field for precise value entry.

⌘/Ctrl-click a slider to type an exact value

Mouse Wheel Zoom

Scope
Behavior

Vectorscope, 3D Color Cube

Zooms in and out

Waveform, Sat/Lum, Channel Plot

Zooms into the blacks

Histogram

Scales the plot along the Y axis

Symbol Reference

Symbol
Key

Command (macOS)

Option (macOS)

Shift

Customization

All shortcuts above are defaults and can be reassigned in the Action Editor. The Action Editor also exposes additional actions — such as Go to Frame, Go to Time, per-scope controls, and QC toggles — that can be assigned to keyboard shortcuts or StreamDeck buttons.

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