Plint Subtitler: available shortcuts

Numerous actions and tools can be accessed as shortcuts in Plint Subtitler. This list is continuously updated:

About "Disable in text editor"

Several shortcuts have the option "Disable in text editor". Checking this will prevent the shortcut from being executed if you press the key combo when you are working in a text field.

Clip: Add new clip

Adds a clip where the time-head is placed on the timeline.

With Auto focus editor you can choose which text edit field you prefer to edit when you have added a new clip. You might want want to add subtitle text right away, or perhaps add a comment.

Clip: Merge clip with next

Merge the selected clip with the next clip on timeline.

Merge text: Activate this setting if you want the text content to be merged as well. If this option is not selected, the selected clip's text content will be the text that remains, and the other clip's text will be deleted.
Merge alongside content: Merges additional content from the clip, such as annotations, reference text and comments. If not selected, only the selected clip's content will remain and the other clip’s content will be deleted.

Clip: Merge clip with previous

Merge the selected clip with the previous clip on timeline.

(For the advanced merge options, see explanations above.)

Clip: Remove clip

Removes the selected clip.

Confirm: Shows a confirmation sign when you try to remove a clip, to avoid clips being deleted by mistake.

Clip: Split clip

Splits the selected clip.

Split clip: With this setting you decide how you want to split the clip. There are two options:

Time-head: Uses the placement of the time-head on the clip, to decide where to split.
Middle: Splits the selected clip in the middle.

Separation direction: Determine on which side of the time-head the separation should be.
Split text: Use the text cursor to decide where to split the text in the clip.
Split alongside content: Duplicates additional clip content such as annotations, reference text and comments to include it in both clips.
Focus: Determine which clip should be selected when the split is done.

Monitor: Toggle full screen

Maximizes the monitor to toggle a fullscreen view of the video with overlaid subtitles. (You leave fullscreen mode by pressing Esc)

Navigation: Go to

With this shortcut you can jump through clips in a selected scope.

Destination: The destinations to choose between are:

First: The first clip in the scope.
Last: The last clip in the scope.
Current: The current selected clip.
Previous: The previous clip in the scope.
Next: The next clip in the scope.

Scope: With this option you decide between which types of clips you should jump through. You can for example skip between only selected or flagged clips.

Jump through the timeline with frame precision. A positive value jumps forward on the timeline, and a negative one jumps backwards.

Audio scrub: Plays audio sample from content while jumping on timeline.

Navigation: Jump seconds

Jump forward or backward on the timeline with seconds as unit. A positive value jumps forward on the timeline, and a negative one jumps backwards.

Jumps between adjacent clips in the selected scope.

Direction: Determine the direction (Current, Next or Previous).
Scope: Select which type of clips to jump through.
Jump to: Determines if you want the timeline to jump to the in- or out-time of the clip.
Move time-head: Determines if the time-head should move along when jumping through the clips.
By time if play: With this option selected, you can set an offset value where the time-head should start playing after jump. Pre-roll: Determines how many second before the clip the time-head should jump, before the content starts playing again.

On the timeline you will often see red markers. These red lines display shot changes. With this shortcut, you can jump between these shot changes.

Direction: Determines in which direction the shortcut should work (Next or Previous).
Pre-roll: If the content is playing, you can determine how many seconds before the shot change the time-head should jump.

Plays and pauses the video in the monitor.

Resume mode: Determines from where the video begins playing.
Clip time-in: The video will start playing from the beginning of the current selected subtitle clip.
Time position: The video will start play from the time-head's current position on the timeline.
Pre-roll: This option only works with the Time position option on. Depending on the value you have entered the time-head will jump the amount in seconds back when pausing, and will continue from that position when playing again.

Project: Undo

Undo the latest changes you have made.

This affect changes made both for the text editor and changes you have made to the clip(s). How many steps you can go back depends on the value for the History States in the Properties panel. Default value is 20.

Project: Redo

Redo the changes you previously have undone.

Project: Save

Saves the latest changes manually. You know the job is saved if you there is no asterisk shown to the right of the work title in the main menu. When you press the key combo for Project: Save, you will also get a feedback with an alert to the upper right of the workspace. (Please note that Plint Subtitler normally also saves automatically at regular intervals).

Text: Send word to line

Instead of using the return key to rearrange words between lines, you can use this shortcut to send words up or down. To be able to both command you need two shortcuts, one for up and one for down.

Text: Set to color

Change the color of a selected word, line or manual selection. To open up the palette to choose a color, click the square.

Selection mode:

Selection: Select the part of the subtitle that you want to change color
Word: Use this option to change the color of the word that is closest to the text cursor.
Line: Use this option to change color for the entire line. The text cursor is used to select line

Text: Toggle line horizontal alignment

Change the alignment of the clip. By repeatedly using the shortcut, you can cycle through all three horizontal alignments. Left, right and center.

Text: Toggle line italic

Adds italic for a whole line of text. Which line that should be affected is decide by the text cursor.

Text: Toggle text italic

This shortcut adds italics for the whole subtitle clip. If you enter new text after using this shortcut, all the text will be in italics as well. You will also notice that the clip will get a blue italic symbol, both in the text editor and for the timeline and list view.

Text: Toggle word italic

Adds italics to a word. You choose the word by using the text cursor.

Text: Toggle raised

Raise all the text in the subtitle clip to the top. This will also add an icon in the text editor, timeline and the list view.

Time: Fix next clip's time-in

Change the separation between the selected clip's time-out and the next clip's time-in. The separation depends on the separation value in the properties panel.

Fix mode:

Set absolute time: With this option enabled, the out-time for the next clip is fixed and the in-time and duration is changed.
Move clip: With this option enabled, you move the whole next clip and the duration is fixed.

Time: Fix previous clip's time-out

With this shortcut you change the separation between the selected clip's time-in and the previous clip's time-out. The separation depends on the separation value in the properties panel.

Fix mode:

Set absolute time: With this option enabled, the previous clip's in-time is fixed and the out-time and duration is changed.
Move clip: With this option enabled, you move the whole previous clip and the duration is fixed.

Time: Set clip's time-in (absolute)

With this shortcut you change the in-time for the active clip. This shortcut can be used while the video content is running.

Reaction time(ms): enter your reaction time for editing clips with running content. The value unit is milliseconds. When you use the shortcut key, the change will be set to the number of milliseconds before you pressed the key. This to compensate for your reaction time.

Time: Set clip's time-out

Change the out-time for the active clip. This shortcut can be used while the video content is running.

Reaction time(ms): see explanation above

Time: Set clip's time-out and fix/create next

This shortcut affects two clips at once. You both edit the out-time for the selected clip and the in-time for the next clip. The gap that is created between the both clip depends on the separation value for the job. If there is no next clip, a new clip is created instead.

Fix mode: With this setting you decide how to treat the duration/out-time for the next clip.

Set absolute time: With this option the out-time is fixed for the next clip. Move clip: With this option the duration is fixed for the next clip. This means the whole clip will be moved.

Focus new subtitle: where should the text cursor end up for the new created clip.

Auto focus editor: in which edit field should the cursor be placed after you have added a new clip. You can choose between the text editor or the comments editor.