Keyboard Shortcuts & Glossary
Keyboard Shortcuts and Builder Glossary
Most functions in Builder NLE have a keyboard shortcut. You can learn about the shortcuts here, or hover over any button in Builder and a Tooltip will tell you its function and keyboard shortcut.
| ⌘-I | Import Event XML |
| ⌘-M | Manage Keywords |
| ⌘-1 | Go to clips list |
| ⌘-2 | Go to transcript table |
| ⌘-F | Go to transcript search field |
| Option-[ | Trim Head button |
| ⌘-T | Show Trimming button |
| Option-] | Trim Tail button |
| ⌘-P | Go to People field |
| ⌘-K | Go to Keywords field |
| [ | Join with previous text range |
| ] | Join with next text range |
| Space | Play video |
| J, K, L | Rewind, stop, fast-forward video (you can press multiple times to change fast-forward and rewind speeds) |
| F | Favorite |
| U | Unrated |
| Delete | Rejected |
| Option-H | Hide Rejected |
| ⌘-J | Merge Selected button |
| ⌘-> | Go to Story Builder |
| ⌘-F | Go to keywords search field |
| Delete | Remove selected person(s) or keyword(s) |
| ⌘-1 | Go to selects list |
| ⌘-2 | Go to storyline |
| ⌘-F | Go to selects search field |
| E | Add paragraph(s) to storyline |
| Delete | Remove text range(s) from storyline |
| Option-[ | Trim Head button |
| ⌘-T | Show Trimming button |
| Option-] | Trim Tail button |
| Space | Play video |
| J, K, L | Rewind, stop, fast-forward video (you can press multiple times to change fast-forward and rewind speeds) |
| Option-F | Show Only Favorites (Toggle) |
| ⌘-< | Go to Clip Logging |
Auto-complete: People and Keywords fields have an auto-complete popup menu that suggests a completion for the word you are typing. The words in the auto-complete menu come from previously used People or Keywords, and People or Keywords from the selected Lumberjack Event.
Favorite: You can set text ranges to be rated as Favorite. The Selects list can then be filtered to show only Favorites.
Keywords: Describes or summarizes the content of the text range. Keywords can be used to group and classify text ranges with common themes. Keywords become Final Cut Pro X keywords on the range of the text range.
Text ranges: A transcript is broken into text range, which can be merged or split. A text range represents a keyword range in Final Cut Pro X. In Final Cut Pro X, text transcript of the text range is added to the People keyword’s notes field and added to a caption for the range.
People: The person or people speaking. Speaker names are extracted from transcripts, or the clip name is used if there are no named speakers. This becomes the name of the keyword range in Final Cut Pro X with the text transcript of the paragraph added to the keyword’s Notes field. It is also used to create lower thirds for Final Cut Pro X.
Reject: You can set text range to be rated as Reject. The Transcript list can then be filtered to Hide Rejected. Rejected paragraphs will not show in the Selects list.
Relevance: Keywords from Live Logging or your NLE entered in the Keywords field in the Keyword Manager, are given a relevance of 100%. This is provided in planning for a future option of automatic keywords that will need a confidence or relevance ranking.
Selects: The list of text range from all clips that can be used to build a Story. Only text range rated as Favorite or Unrated will show in the Selects list.
Story: A sequence of text ranges assembled in the storyline. You can have multiple Stories in the same Builder document.
Unrated: You can set text range to be Unrated. All text range are Unrated when the transcript is first linked to a clip.
More Help
- Closed Captions for your Final Cut Pro Projects in three easy steps
- Preparing in Premiere Pro or FCP
- Import XML, Transcripts and Manage Clips
- Logging Mode: Editing Text, Set Rating, Keywords and Paper Color, Trimming Clips and Manage Keywords
- Story Mode: Filtering Selects and Building Stories
- Editing Media Workflow (Proxy Media)
- Keyboard Shortcuts and Builder specific Glossary
