Editor hotkeys

Last updated: 31 July 2026

All Rapidemo editor keyboard shortcuts at a glance: playback, timeline zoom, split, merge and more. View and customize every shortcut in the Settings.

View and customize all shortcuts in the Settings under Hotkeys, which you can open from anywhere in the app with ctrl /. These are the defaults:

General
Play / pause	`space`
Rename project	`F2`
Close project	`ctrl` `w`
Open settings	`ctrl` `,`
Open exporter	`ctrl` `e`
Open hotkeys	`ctrl` `/`
Close modal	`esc`
Undo	`ctrl` `z`
Redo	`ctrl` `y`
Timeline
Zoom in timeline	`ctrl` `+`
Zoom out timeline	`ctrl` `-`
Scroll timeline	`←` `→` or hold `shift` and scroll
Select all elements in a row	`ctrl` `a`
Select multiple elements in a row	Hold `ctrl`
Select adjacent elements in a row	Hold `shift`
Clear selection	`esc`
Split selected element	`s`
Merge selected elements	`m`
Maximize selected element	`f`
Delete selected elements	`del`

Customize a shortcut

Each row in the Hotkeys settings has a Change action. Press the new key combination to record it, or esc to cancel. Combinations that belong to another action or are reserved by Windows are refused.

The Hotkeys settings with one shortcut waiting for a new key combination

Reset returns a changed shortcut to its default, and Reset all restores all of them.