Text-Based Editing Keyboard Shortcut for editing text

Report · Aug 15, 2023

Hi guys! I usually have to check my transcription before starting the text based editing. After correcting one text of the transcription, I can just press esc and scroll the text cursor (the one that controls the timeline pin) with the arrows to find the next part I want to correct. And that's great!

But after that I have to eather click on the pencil in the top of the text tab or double click the text to edit the content again.

As silly as it sounds, it would be great not having to get my mouse back to get into the text editing layer.

I could not find any option that would lead to that function in the keyboard shotcuts menu, at least in PT-BR.

Thanks in advance. Thats my first idea here in this channel, sorry if I'm using it wrong.

Report · Aug 16, 2023

@Ðann,

Great question, and thanks for the feedback on your workflow.

Try the Enter key. There were MANY Text panel-specific shortcuts added as part of the Text-based editing. I think it was around that time that the function of Enter changed to make it one of the options to enter Edit mode.

These newer shortcuts do not appear to be in the Keyboard Shortcuts list. Some appear on individual help pages, but I do not see a complete list at the moment.

There is, for example, a shortcut in the Text Panel where "Home" navigates to the beginning of the transcript section that is the focus. It is this type of function you are using to go up/down one line with the arrow keys. And there are both "navigates to" and "selects to." Neither of these require entering edit mode. Navigates to does not select. Selects To navigates and adds to the selection for purposes of marking in/out. Very powerful options.

But I do not see a shortcut to go to the next transcript section. Only up/down appears to make that jump. But only one line at a time. It would be nice to have something like Page up/down to jump by Transcript section.

@Kerstin Ebert @Alexander Riss Am I missing a "navigate to next/previous transcript segment" shortcut? Is there a complete-ish list of transcript/caption relevant shortcuts other than from the Beta discussions?

Stan