Keyboard Shortcuts

Every keyboard shortcut in Screen Bolt, grouped by what you're trying to do.

A full reference of every keyboard shortcut in Screen Bolt. Menu-bar shortcuts work anywhere in the app. Timeline and playback shortcuts work whenever the editor window is focused. Glyphs: ⌘ Command, ⌥ Option, ⌃ Control, ⇧ Shift, ↵ Return, ↑↓←→ arrow keys.

Recording

Available from the Record menu. Work globally whenever Screen Bolt is the frontmost app.

Shortcut	Action	Notes
`⌥⌘3`	Record display	Starts recording the primary display immediately.
`⌥⌘4`	Record window	Opens the window picker, then starts recording the selected window.
`⌥⌘5`	Record area	Opens the area selector, then records the drawn region.
`⌃⌘↵`	Start / stop recording	Toggles recording of the current source selection.
`⇧⌘T`	Teleprompter	Shows or hides the floating teleprompter window.

Inside the area selector

Shortcut	Action
`↵`	Confirm the drawn selection and start recording.
`Esc`	Cancel area selection.

Inside the window picker

Shortcut	Action
`↵`	Record the highlighted window.
`Esc`	Dismiss the picker.

Teleprompter (while recording)

Active only when the teleprompter window is live during a recording.

Shortcut	Action	Mode
`Space`	Pause / resume auto-scroll, or advance to the next page in manual mode	Both
`↑`	Increase scroll speed	Auto-scroll
`↓`	Decrease scroll speed	Auto-scroll
`→`	Next page	Manual
`←`	Previous page	Manual

File and project

Available from the File menu.

Shortcut	Action
`⌘O`	Open a project or video file.
`⌥⌘Z`	Open the most recent project.

Non-shortcut File menu items worth knowing: Open recent, Show previous projects, Recover unfinished recordings…, Create project from video…, and Import preset….

Editor panels

Available from the View menu. Active when an editor window is frontmost.

Shortcut	Action
`⌘1`	Open the Screen panel.
`⌘2`	Open the Background panel.
`⌘3`	Open the Camera panel.
`⌘4`	Open the Audio panel.
`⌘5`	Open the Zoom panel.
`⌘6`	Open the Cursor panel.

Timeline and playback

Active when an editor window is focused. Most of these are single-letter shortcuts — no modifiers.

Playback

Shortcut	Action
`Space`	Play / pause.
`←`	Step back one frame (1/30 s).
`→`	Step forward one frame.
`⇧←`	Jump back 5 seconds.
`⇧→`	Jump forward 5 seconds.
`Home` / `fn ←`	Seek to the start of the timeline.
`End` / `fn →`	Seek to the end of the timeline.
`J`	Slow playback by 0.25× (minimum 0.25×).
`K`	Pause.
`L`	Speed playback up by 0.25× (maximum 4×).

Editing

Shortcut	Action
`S`	Split the clip at the playhead.
`I`	Mark in — set the start of a marked region.
`O`	Mark out — set the end of a marked region.
`Delete`	Delete the marked region, selected zoom, or selected timeline item(s).
`Esc`	Deselect everything and clear the marked region.
`T`	Add a text overlay and open the Text panel.
`B`	Add a blur region and open the Effects panel.
`F`	Add a focus region and open the Effects panel.
`M`	Add a marker at the playhead.
`⌘K`	Add a zoom keyframe at the playhead.
`[`	Seek to the previous marker.
`]`	Seek to the next marker.
`⌘Z`	Undo.
`⇧⌘Z`	Redo.

Timeline zoom

Shortcut	Action
`⌘=`	Zoom the timeline in.
`⌘-`	Zoom the timeline out.
`⌘0`	Reset the timeline zoom to fit.

Help

Available from the Help menu.

Shortcut	Action
`⌘?`	Open the in-app Help window.
`⇧⌘/`	Open the Help window scrolled directly to the shortcuts section.

The Help menu also includes View Full Documentation, What's New, and Report an Issue… (all open in your browser or default mail client).

Application

Standard macOS conventions, plus a couple of Screen Bolt specifics.

Shortcut	Action
`⌘,`	Open Settings.
`⇧⌘L`	Open the license key entry screen.
`⌘H`	Hide Screen Bolt (macOS default).
`⌥⌘H`	Hide other apps (macOS default).
`⌘M`	Minimize the active window (macOS default).
`⌘W`	Close the active window (macOS default).
`⌘Q`	Quit Screen Bolt (macOS default).

If a shortcut listed here doesn't fire, the most common causes are: the editor window isn't focused, another app is capturing the key combination, or you haven't granted Input Monitoring (only relevant for Screen Bolt's in-recording key-press tracker, not the shortcuts themselves). See Troubleshooting if something stays broken.