Media dialog

CatDV uses the media dialog to play the media for a selected clip at full size:

All these options use the media dialog to show the media, either in a window or full screen. Double click or press Escape to close the media dialog. See below for various other keyboard shortcuts you can use to control the media as it's playing.

There are also a number of Preferences options that control how media is played, for example the slide show delay.

Keyboard shortcuts

The following keyboard shortcuts can be used to control the media presentation and mark the clip that is playing:

Space barplay or pause a movie
Up, Downmove to previous or next clip in the catalog
Escape (or Cmd-W)close the media dialog
Ftoggle into full screen mode. Double click to return to normal mode.
Tab (or R)start or pause slide show mode
Enterclose a slide show
+, -increase or decrease the audio volume
[, ]rotate image 90 degrees left or right
Ddouble the playback size of the movie or image
Shift-Drestore playback to normal size
Ctrl-Rrefresh the display, re-centering the window on the screen
0-9adjust speed of slide show
Ctoggle showing/hiding the movie controller
J/K/L/;jog-shuttle controls (see below)
Shift-Ltoggle looping playback mode
Mset the mark flag for the clip
Shift-Mclear the mark flag for the clip
G/N/?mark the clip as good/no good/maybe
I, Oset start/end of a selection (in2/out2)
Pplay the selection from start to end (in2 to out2)
T, Ymove to start/end of a selection (in2/out2)
S, Eplay start/end of a selection (in2/out2)
Ctrl-J (or Cmd-I)display clip details dialog

JKL controls

The behaviour of the JKL jog-shuttle controls depends on the Preferences setting:

These keys apply in the media dialog, in the Movie and Preview tab of the clip details dialog, and when playing movies full screen.


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