Keyboard shortcuts

Mac users see Cmd; Windows users substitute Ctrl. The in-app dialog opened with Cmd / Ctrl + K is a similar reference, maintained separately by hand, so it can lag behind this page.

Phone doesn’t surface a hotkeys reference — there’s no in-app dialog for phone, since phone usage doesn’t typically involve keyboard shortcuts. Tablet users with a hardware keyboard can use every shortcut listed here.

Global

• [ — toggle the left sidebar (expanded ↔ collapsed)
• Cmd / Ctrl + K — open the keyboard shortcuts dialog
• Cmd / Ctrl + Shift + M — toggle theme (light / dark)

Shot list (Linear and Production)

• Cmd / Ctrl + N — add a shot (or a banner if in Production view)
• Cmd / Ctrl + F — enter Focus mode
• Shift + D — toggle Display Settings
• Shift + L — toggle column layout (fit ↔ scroll)
• Shift + M — toggle compact ↔ expanded row height
• Shift + S — toggle the script sidebar in Linear view (or open the scene picker in Focus mode)
• 1 through 9 — toggle visibility of the first nine columns after the pinned Status / Shot / Day
• Esc — clear current selection
• Delete / Backspace — bulk delete selected items

Focus mode

• Cmd / Ctrl + N — add a shot to the focused scene
• Cmd / Ctrl + F or Cmd / Ctrl + B — exit Focus mode
• Shift + S — open the scene picker dialog
• → / ← — replace focus with the next / previous scene
• Cmd + → / Cmd + ← — add the next / previous scene to focus (multi-scene)

Script editor

• Cmd / Ctrl + 1 through 7 — set the current paragraph’s type (1 scene heading, 2 character, 3 dialogue, 4 action, 5 parenthetical, 6 transition, 7 lyrics)
• Cmd / Ctrl + B / I / U — bold / italic / underline
• Cmd / Ctrl + E — set the current paragraph to the centred-text element type (not a general alignment toggle)
• Cmd / Ctrl + I — with the caret on text, toggles italic. Otherwise it starts a script import (the file picker and the import review) — same as the Import button, which carries the hotkey on its label
• Shift + Return — line break inside the current element
• Shift + P — Populate from Script (runs here in the Script Editor; inert on the shot list)

Zoom

• Cmd / Ctrl + = / Cmd / Ctrl + - — zoom in / out (25% steps, 50–200%)
• Cmd / Ctrl + 0 — reset zoom to fit width
• Cmd / Ctrl + scroll — zoom at the pointer (pinch works too)

Title page

• Tab / Shift + Tab — next / previous title-page field, with the value pre-selected; Tab on the last field enters the script body

Breakdown tag editor

• 1 through 9 — pick one of the first nine categories (while no field has focus)
• Tab — jump to the Element field with the text selected
• Enter — save the tag
• Esc — close without saving

Exports

• Cmd / Ctrl + P — export the current view to PDF on the shot list and storyboard; on the AV Script it opens the share dialog in export mode. Not bound on call sheets — use the Export button in the call sheet’s top menu bar instead.

Notes

• Some shortcuts are context-sensitive — Shift + S and Cmd + N do different things depending on the active view. The lists above note both behaviours.
• The in-app dialog (Cmd / Ctrl + K) shows most of these shortcuts, but not all — it has no AV Script section, and its list is maintained by hand, so it can lag behind this page.