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20 Essential Clipchamp Keyboard Shortcuts to Boost Your Video Editing Efficiency

20 Essential Clipchamp Keyboard Shortcuts to Boost Your Video Editing Efficiency

With busy schedules and limited time in mind, we’re here to show you a simple way to make your video editing in Clipchamp even easier, while eliminating time between your keyboard and mouse - cue, Clipchamp shortcuts.

Clipchamp keyboard shortcuts can save editing time, simplify your workload, and help you easily maneuver around the editor!

Firstly, what is a keyboard shortcut? 🤔

Simply put, a keyboard shortcut is a combination of keys used to execute certain tasks that would usually require a mouse click. They provide a very simple, fast way to implement repetitive tasks - for example I’m sure we’ve all used Ctrl+V to paste something easily into a document or email.

Adopting this behaviour, Clipchamp shortcuts makes editing videos a little bit easier by providing key combinations to action tasks that would usually require you to use your mouse.

We’ve created this visual document to showcase the 20 Clipchamp shortcuts for you to enjoy and use as a resource.

Complete list of Clipchamp keyboard shortcuts

You can view the complete list of shortcuts on Clipchamp depending on your device:

  • If you’re in the editor on a Windows or Chromebook device, hit Ctrl / to open the OS keyboard shortcuts menu.

  • If you’re on a Mac, simply hit Command /.

So, let’s jump into all the available shortcuts on Clipchamp.

1. Undo: Cmd/Ctrl + Z
20 Essential Clipchamp Keyboard Shortcuts to Boost Your Video Editing Efficiency
2. Redo: Cmd/Ctrl + ↑ + Z
20 Essential Clipchamp Keyboard Shortcuts to Boost Your Video Editing Efficiency
3. Split selected items: S
20 Essential Clipchamp Keyboard Shortcuts to Boost Your Video Editing Efficiency
4. Delete selected items: DEL or BACKSPACE
20 Essential Clipchamp Keyboard Shortcuts to Boost Your Video Editing Efficiency
5. Copy selected items: Cmd/Ctrl + C
20 Essential Clipchamp Keyboard Shortcuts to Boost Your Video Editing Efficiency
6. Paste: Cmd/Ctrl + V
20 Essential Clipchamp Keyboard Shortcuts to Boost Your Video Editing Efficiency
7. Duplicate selected items: Cmd/Ctrl + D
20 Essential Clipchamp Keyboard Shortcuts to Boost Your Video Editing Efficiency
8. Zoom timeline in: Cmd/Ctrl + plus or Cmd/Ctrl + ↑ + plus
20 Essential Clipchamp Keyboard Shortcuts to Boost Your Video Editing Efficiency
9. Zoom timeline out: Cmd/Ctrl + minus or Cmd/Ctrl + ↑ + minus
20 Essential Clipchamp Keyboard Shortcuts to Boost Your Video Editing Efficiency
10. Zoom timeline to fit content: Cmd/Ctrl + 0
20 Essential Clipchamp Keyboard Shortcuts to Boost Your Video Editing Efficiency
11. Seek to start: Cmd/Ctrl + ← or HOME
20 Essential Clipchamp Keyboard Shortcuts to Boost Your Video Editing Efficiency
12. Seek to end: Cmd/Ctrl + → or END
20 Essential Clipchamp Keyboard Shortcuts to Boost Your Video Editing Efficiency
13. Scrub back:
20 Essential Clipchamp Keyboard Shortcuts to Boost Your Video Editing Efficiency
14. Scrub forward:
20 Essential Clipchamp Keyboard Shortcuts to Boost Your Video Editing Efficiency
15. Scroll timeline up:
20 Essential Clipchamp Keyboard Shortcuts to Boost Your Video Editing Efficiency
16. Scroll timeline down:
20 Essential Clipchamp Keyboard Shortcuts to Boost Your Video Editing Efficiency
17. Select all items: Cmd/Ctrl + A
20 Essential Clipchamp Keyboard Shortcuts to Boost Your Video Editing Efficiency
18. Deselect all items: ESC
20 Essential Clipchamp Keyboard Shortcuts to Boost Your Video Editing Efficiency
19. Play/pause: SPACE
20 Essential Clipchamp Keyboard Shortcuts to Boost Your Video Editing Efficiency
20. Show keyboard shortcuts: ↑ + / or Cmd/Ctrl + /
20 Essential Clipchamp Keyboard Shortcuts to Boost Your Video Editing Efficiency

Full list of Clipchamp shortcuts:

20 Essential Clipchamp Keyboard Shortcuts to Boost Your Video Editing Efficiency20 Essential Clipchamp Keyboard Shortcuts to Boost Your Video Editing Efficiency

And that’s a wrap!

Give learning a few Clipchamp shortcuts a go and make your video editing a little easier.


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