This wiki documents the shortcuts available in the most recent version of Advene (3.13).

These shortcuts are available in most parts/views of the interface. The Control prefix can be changed to some other special key on the keyboard (Alt, Meta, Shift...) through Edit/Preferences.

• 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 as annotation content, 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 (customizable through Edit/Preferences/Time related)
• 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

In addition to the generic player shortcuts, additional shorcuts are available in fullscreen mode.

• Tab or Space : play/pause the movie (no Control is needed if we are not entering text yet).
• right/left : go forward/backward in the movie by 2 s (customizable through Edit/Preferences/Time related)
• shift-right/left : go forward/backward in the movie by 5 s (customizable through Edit/Preferences/Time related)
• up/down : go forward/backward in the movie by 1/25 s (optionally customizable)
• Shift-down/up : go forward/backward in the movie by 1ms (customizable through Edit/Preferences/Time related)
• Home : go to the beginning of the movie
• End : go to the end of the movie
• 1 to 0 keys (top row of the keyboard) display the n 10th of the movie, i.e. 1 displays the first 10% (goes to the beginning), 2 displays the second 10%, etc. As a convenience for french users (AZERTY keyboard), the Shift key does not have to be pressed to get the behaviour, simply press the key with the number on it.

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

• p : play the movie at the cursor position
• single-click in the snapshots zone/timescale: play at the cursor position
• double-click in the background: play at the cursor position
• single-click in the background: unlock the inspector if it was locked
• c : center the timeline on the current player position
• draw a rectangle on the background: if the area covers at least one annotation, select covered annotations. Else, propose to either create an annotation or to zoom on the selected area.
• Control-+/- : increase/decrease zoom level
• Control-1 to Control-9 : set zoom level to from 100% (Control-1) to 2% (Control-9).
• Control-Return : create an annotation at current player position (its type depends on the cursor position).

• simple click: player the annotation and lock the inspector on this annotation
• 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)
• Delete or Backspace : 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.
• 1 to 9: if the Edit/Preferences/Text content/Quick fill option is active, set the content of the annotation to the nth predefined keyword for the given type. If the annotation content type is Keyword list, then multiple values can be entered and 1 to 9 toggle the corresponding nth values from the predefined list.

Quick-edit mode is obtained in the timeline by pressing Enter while the mouse pointer is over an annotation. It allows to edit the annotation content through a small text entry with the following shortcuts:

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

• e : edit the annotation-type
• a : display the Shot validation interface
• 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)
• 1 to 9: if the Edit/Preferences/Text content/Quick fill option is active, create a new annotation with the current position as begin time, and set its content to the nth predefined keyword for the type.

• 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

• 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)
• Control-C: convert transcription into annotations

• Return edits the content of the annotation in place
• Control-Return opens the edit form for the annotation
• Control-</Control-> modifies begin/end time
• Space plays the annotation
• 1 to 9: if the Edit/Preferences/Text content/Quick fill option is active, set the content of the annotation to the nth predefined keyword for the given type.

• 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)

• Click on image: play the movie
• Control+click on image: set the value to current player time
• Control+scroll on image: modify the value
• Right click: display a popup menu, which offers to save the screenshot, adjust the timestamp through the frame selector or use the current player time.

For advanced users, a python shell is available to directly access the internal API. Feel free to tinker with it but there are no safeguards.

• 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