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# 12. Shortcut keys

Table 1. General shortcuts

Ctrl-N | Creates a New project.
Ctrl-O | Opens an excisting 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 | Pastes pictures from the global clipboard and adds 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 what's this arrow for querying information about a user interface item.
Ctrl-F | Adds one or several frames/pictures to the animation.
Ctrl-E | Creates a new scene

Table 2. Toolbar shortcuts

| Play the animation.
*, P, Asterisk | Go to the last frame of the take.
9, Page Up | Go to the next frame of the take.
6, O, Right | Go to the previous frame of the take.
3, L, Page Down | Go to the first frame of the take.
/, Slash | Go to the last take of the scene.
8, Up | Go to the next take of the scene.
5, I, Clear | Go to the previous take of the scene.
2, K, Down | Go to the first take of the scene.
7, Home | Go to the last scene of the project.
4, U, Left | Go to the next scene of the project.
1, J, End | Go to the previous scene of the project.
0, M, Insert | Go to the first scene of the project.
| Toggle whether the animation should loop when playing.

Table 3. Project tooltab shortcuts

C | Start the camera.
Space, Return, Enter | Capture a frame from the camera video stream.
Delete, Comma, Period | Delete frame.
+, Plus | Add take to the scene.
Shift-Delete | Delete take.
-, Minus | Add scene to the project.
Ctrl-Delete | Delete scene.
| Switch to image mixing/onionskinning mode.
| Switch to image differentation mode.
| Switch to playback mode.

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