Hot Key List

General Windowing

Alt+left mouse drag, or middle mouse drag Pan window
Space bar Expand window up and down
Ctrl+Alt+left drag, or Ctrl+middle mouse drag Zoom some windows (Curve Editor, Node View, Time Bar)
Esc Kill processing
U Update Viewer
Shift + middle drag on a tab, or Shift+Alt+left drag on a tab Tear off a tab as a floating window
T Toggle Time Code/ Frame View in Time-based displays.


The GUI Viewers

N Create/Copy New Viewer
F, Fit frame to image
Shift+F, Fit frame to window
Alt+drag Pan image
+/- Zoom image in Viewer
Home Reset view
r,g,b,a,c Toggle Red, Green, Blue, Alpha, and Color views
1 Toggle A/B image buffers
2 Toggle color channels
3 Toggle update mode
4 Toggle Viewer Scripts
5 Toggle Compare mode


Flipbooks

. (think of it as >) Play
, (think of it as <) Play backwards
Shift+> Ping-pong playback
Shift+drag Shuttle playback
Alt+drag Reveal compare buffer, if set
Ctrl+> Play through once.
Space Stop playing and rendering
? Continue rendering
r,g,b,a,c View a channel
i toggle numeric representation of channel values
Home Reset zoom to 1
-/= (by Backspace) zoom in and out
+/- (on numeric keypad) increase playback rate
t toggle realtime playback
d double/single buffer toggle, SGI only
left/right arrow keys advance frames
h if in compare mode, set to horizontal split
v if in compare mode, set to vertical split
s if in compare mode, switch split
f if in compare mode, fade split, SGI only.
Esc Close window


Function Tabs Workspace

click on function insert node into tree
Shift+click on function New branch
Ctrl+click Replace current node
Shift+Ctrl+click New tree
Alt+drag pan window


Curve Editor

Alt+drag Pan window
Ctrl+Alt+ drag Zoom window
+/- (by BackSpace) Zoom in and out.
Alt+drag on numbed axis Pan only in that direction
drag on numbered axis Scale that direction.
S Sync time to current keyframe
T Toggle time code/frame display.
Shift+drag Select keys
Ctrl+drag Deselect keys
Ctrl+A Select All curves
Shift+A Select all CVs on active curves
Ctrl+click on tangent Break tangent.
Shift+click on tangent Rejoin broken tangents
Delete Delete active keys.
Backspace Remove curves from Editor (does not delete them).
F, Ctrl+F Frame selected Curves
Shift+F Frame selected CVs.
Home Frame All

 

Node Workspace

Keyboard
Notes
Ctrl+X Removes selected nodes and places them into the paste buffer.
Ctrl+C Copies the selected nodes into the paste buffer
Ctrl+V Pastes the buffer into the node view. You can also copy nodes from the Node View and paste them into a Text document. You can also copy the text and paste it into the Node View. This is really swank, by the way. It won't impress your mother, but it will impress her if she is programmer.
Delete This deletes the selected nodes. If the branching is not complicated, the noodles between the parent(s) and children will automatically reattach to each other.
Ctrl+Z Will Undo up to 100 steps. Rearranging nodes counts as a step.
Ctrl+Y Will redo your steps unless you have changed values after you have done several undos.
+ Zooms into the Node View (also use Ctrl+Alt+Left mouse)
- Zooms out of the Node View (also use Ctrl+Alt+Left mouse)
Home Centers all nodes.
F Frames all selected nodes into the Node View.
O

Turns on the Overview window to help navigate in the Node View.

 

Ctrl + F Will activate nodes according to what to you enter in the Search string field.
  • Select by name. Enter the search string, and it will immediately activate nodes that match. For example, if you put just f, FileIn1 and Fade will be selected. If you enter fi, just the FileIn1 will be selected.

  • Select by type. This will select by node type. For example, enter Move, and all Move2D and Move3D nodes will be selected.

  • Select by expression. This allows you to enter an expression. For example, you want to find all nodes with an angle parameter greater than 180:

    angle>180

  • Match case. This will set case sensitivity.
Ctrl+A Selects all nodes.
Shift+A Selects all nodes attached to the current group.
! All selected nodes are deactivated, all deactivated nodes are activated.
Shift+U Adds all nodes upstream from the currently active nodes to the active group.
Shift+D Adds all nodes downstream from the currently active nodes to the active group.
Shift+Up arrow Adds one upstream node to the current selection.
Shift + Down Arrow Adds one downstream node to the current selection.
L This does an automated layout on the selected nodes.
X Snaps all selected nodes into the same column.
Y Snaps all selected nodes into the same row.
G This will visually collapse selected nodes into one node. When saved out again, they are remembered as several nodes. To ungroup them, hit G again.
M This will open a group into a subwindow.
I Will turn off selected nodes when activated. Select them again and hit I to reactivate them. You can also load the parameters into the Parameter View and hit ignoreNode.
E Pulls the active nodes from the tree, reconnecting the remaining nodes to each other.
Shift+M Will launch the MacroMaker with the selected nodes as the macro body.
B Will open up a macro into a subwindow so you can review wiring and parameters. You cannot change the nodes inside the subwindow.
Alt+B Will close up the macro subwindow when the cursor is placed outside of the open macro.

 

Parameter Workspace

Ctrl+drag Virtual sliders
Tab Advance to next text field
Shift+Tab Go to previous text field
Right mouse Access to a pop-up menu.
Drag on parameter name Copy parameter to target parameter.
Shift+drag on parameter name Link parameter from target parameter.