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# 11. Shortcut keys

Table 1. General shortcuts

Ctrl-N | Creates a New project.
Ctrl-O | Opens an existing project.
Ctrl-S | Saves the project.
Ctrl-Shift-S | Saves the project as.
Ctrl-Alt-V | Opens a dialog to export the project as video.
Ctrl-Alt-C | Opens a dialog to export the project as a Cinerella project.
Ctrl-Q | Quits the application.
Ctrl-Z | Undoes the last action.
Ctrl-Shift-Z | Redoes the last undo.
Ctrl-X | Cuts the selected frames out of the animation and places them on the global clipboard.
Ctrl-C | Copies the selected frames to the global clipboard.
Ctrl-V | Paste pictures from the global clipboard and add them to the animation after the selected frame.
Ctrl-G | Brings up a menu where you can select a frame to jump to.
Ctrl-P | Opens the import and export preferences menu.
Shift-F1 | Gives you a whatsthis arrow for querying information about a user interface item.
Ctrl-F | Add one or several frames/pictures to the animation.
Ctrl-E | Create a new scene
Delete | Deletes the selected frames.
Shift-Delete | Deletes the selected scene.
A | Selects all the frames in the opened scene.

Table 2. Play shortcuts

P, K | Play the animation.
Right, L | Go to the next frame.
Left, J | Go to the previous frame.
O | Go to the next scene.
I | Go to the previous scene.
Ctrl-L | Toggle whether the animation should loop when playing.

Table 3. Camera shortcuts

C | Start the camera.
Space | Capture a frame from the camera video stream.
1 | Switch to image mixing/onionskinning mode.
2 | Switch to image differentation mode.
3 | Switch to playback mode.

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