Keyboard shortcuts
Every Reelbird keyboard shortcut: start and stop from any app, the picker, the countdown, and the editor timeline.
These work in every app. Change them in Settings… → General; Reelbird refuses keys another of its shortcuts or another app already uses.
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| ⌥⇧R | New recording; while recording, stop |
| ⌥⇧P | Pause or resume |
| ⌥⇧M | Add a marker (only while recording, so the keys type normally the rest of the time) |
| ⌥⇧L | While recording with the camera: switch the camera layout (bubble, camera only, screen only) |
After you stop, the quick actions card closes by itself after about 12 seconds unless the pointer is on it; × closes it sooner. It never takes keyboard focus, so you can paste the link straight away. Settings… → General → After recording chooses between the card (the default), opening the editor, or nothing.
While picking what to record, Return starts and Esc closes the picker. During the countdown, Return, Space or a click skips it and Esc cancels. When selecting an area, Return records and Esc cancels.
In the editor:
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| Space | Play or pause |
| J / K / L | Back 2 seconds / pause / play |
| ← / → | Step back or forward 1/30 second (with ⇧: one second) |
| Home / End | Jump to start or end |
| S | Split at the playhead |
| Z | Add a zoom at the playhead |
| M | Add a marker at the playhead (click a flag to jump to it, double-click to rename, right-click to delete) |
| C | Add a camera layout at the playhead (or select the one there) |
| R | Speed: 2× for the selected part (or 3 seconds from the playhead); on a speed segment, the next speed |
| B | Blur an area: drag on the preview |
| A / X / T / H | Draw an arrow, a box, a text label or a highlight |
| 1 to 9 | Zoom depth of the selected zoom, or the one under the pointer (1 = 1.25×, 9 = 3.5×) |
| 0 | Turn that zoom off without deleting it, or back on |
| I | Make that zoom instant: it cuts in and out with no animation |
| Delete | Cut the selected part, delete the selected zooms, layout, speed or overlay, or restore a cut |
| Esc | Put down the drawing tool, or clear the selection |
| ⌘C / ⌘V | Copy the selected zooms / paste them at the playhead |
| ⌘A | Select every zoom (shift-click or drag a box on the zoom lane to select some) |
| ⌘K | Command menu: search every command and setting |
| ⌘/ | Show every editor shortcut |
| ⌘1 to ⌘8 | Background, Cursor, Zoom, Camera, Canvas, Audio, Captions, Overlays |
| ⌘= / ⌘− | Zoom the timeline in or out |
| ⌘E | Export |
| ⌘Z / ⇧⌘Z | Undo / redo |
Elsewhere: ⌘N starts a new recording, ⇧⌘L opens the library, ⌘O opens a .reelbird project, ⇧⌘E shares or copies the link, ⇧⌘R shows the recording in Finder, ⌘⌫ moves it to the Trash, and ⌘, opens Settings.