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Advene shortcuts

This wiki documents the shortcuts available in the most recent version of Advene (0.40).

Generic player shortcuts

These shortcuts are available in most parts/views of the interface.

  • Control+Tab or Control-Space : play/pause the movie. Note: Using simply Space is a frequent request, but cannot be used here since Advene is about annotating videos. We need to be able to enter a space character, hence it cannot be used for control.
  • Control+right/left : go forward/backward in the movie by 2 s (customizable through Edit/Preferences/Time related)
  • Control+Shift-right/left : go forward/backward in the movie by 5 s (customizable through Edit/Preferences/Time related)
  • Control+down/up : go forward/backward in the movie by 1/25 s
  • Control+Shift-down/up : go forward/backward in the movie by 1ms (customizable through Edit/Preferences/Time related)
  • Control+Home : go to the beginning of the movie
  • Control+End : go to the end of the movie
  • Insert (Linux, Windows) or Alt-Space (Linux, Mac OS X): create a new bookmark
  • Insert + Shift or Alt-Space + Shift: create a new bookmark next to the current one
  • Numeric/symbolic keypad shortcuts:
    • 0 or Insert: create a new bookmark
    • 5 or Begin: play/pause
    • 8/2 or Up/Down: go forward/backward in the movie by 1/25 s
    • 4/6 or Left/Right: go forward/backward in the movie by 2 s (5 s with Shift)
    • 7 or Home: go to the beginning of the movie
    • 1 or End: go to the end of the movie

Main GUI

  • Control-q : quit the application
  • Control-o : open a package
  • Control-s : save the package
  • Control-e : get the evaluator window (for advanced users)
  • Control-k : select the quicksearch entry
  • Control-a : open the EditAccumulator

Timeline

Timeline background

  • p : play the movie at the cursor position
  • single-click in the snapshots zone: play at the cursor position
  • double-click in the background: play at the cursor position
  • c : center the timeline on the current player position

Annotation widget

  • e or double-click : edit the annotation
  • a : adjust annotation begin time
  • A : adjust annotation end time
  • h : toggle highlight annotation (in all views)
  • Return : quickly edit the annotation (textual content only).
  • p : play the annotation (either at the beginning or the end, depending on the cursor position)
  • space : play the focused annotation (even if the cursor is not on the annotation widget)
  • control+click : set the annotation begin or end (depending on the cursor position) to the current movie time
  • control+scroll : update the annotation begin or end (depending on the cursor position) time. Holding Shift uses a larger increment
  • control+return : split the annotation at the current player position (if the position is in the annotation's bounds)
  • shift+delete : delete the annotation
  • Drag-and-drop of an annotation on another one: popup a menu to propose to create a relation, merge annotations or align bounds.

Quick edit mode

  • Return: validate the new content
  • Escape: cancel the editing
  • Tab: validate the content and quick-edit the following annotation

Annotation-type widget

  • e : edit the annotation-type
  • return : create a new annotation with the current position as begin time, edit it, and use the new current position value as end time when validating
  • space : restrict playing to annotations of the given annotation-type (toggle)

Active bookmarks

  • Shift+DND on a timestamp: move the timestamp
  • Control+DND on a timestamp : copy the timestamp
  • Control+D: duplicate a bookmark
  • See also the bookmark creation shortcuts (Insert/Alt-Space) in the #Generic_player_shortcuts

Note-taking

  • Control-s : save the transcription
  • Control-Return : insert a timestamp mark (if the movie is playing)
  • Control-Shift-Return : pause and insert a timestamp mark
  • Control-PageDown/PageUp : go to next/previous mark
  • Control-Scroll on a mark: update the mark timestamp. If the play-on-scroll option is set, the player will be set to the new position when the control key is released.
  • Control-Shift-Scroll: update the timestamp with a larger step (customizable through Edit/Preferences/Time related)
  • Control-Click in the text in single-click-insert mode : move cursor (instead of inserting a mark)

Element Edition popup

Text and generic content handler

  • Control-s : save the content
  • Control-o : get the content from a file
  • Control-r : reload the content (re-uses the filename used to save)
  • Control-i : insert a TALES expression or result from the package browser (text content only)

Fragment value edition

  • Click on image: play the movie
  • Control+click on image: set the value to current time
  • Control+scroll on image: modify the value

Evaluator

  • F1: display the help message
  • Control-w: close the window
  • Control-Return: evaluate the expression
  • Control-l: clear the expression buffer
  • Control-S: save the expression buffer
  • Control-n: next item in history
  • Control-p: previous item in history
  • Control-PageUp/PageDown: scroll the output window
  • Control-s: save the output
  • Control-d: display completion possibilities
  • Tab: perform autocompletion
  • Control-h: display docstring for element before cursor
  • Control-H: display source for element before cursor