Unlike other editors, kino uses many keyboard commands for fast navigation and editing inside the movie.
It acts on frames that are single images from a movie, scenes that are defined as groupings of one or
more frames with recording times differing by no more than one second, and movies that are groups of one
or more scenes. The following keystrokes can be used for moving and editing. Some of them are also
available as buttons in a graphical menu bar. (Also note the deliberate similarities between kino
commands and the text editor vi.) The following is a brief list of the commands. A more complete list is
available in the online help.
MOVING AROUND
space Toggle between play and pause.
l,right-arrow
Move one frame forward.
h,left-arrow
Move one frame backward.
gg Move to the start of the movie.
G Move to the end of the movie.
0,^ Move to the start of the current scene.
$ Move to the end of the current scene.
j,return,+,down-arrow
Move to the start of the next scene.
k,-,up-arrow
Move to the start of the previous scene.
ctrl-f Move forward five scenes.
ctrl-b Move backwards five scenes.
w Move forward one second.
b Move backwards one second.
DELETE OPERATIONS
x,dl,dspace,del
cut the current frame.
dd cut the current scene.
d$ cut from current frame to end of scene.
d^,d0 cut from start of scene to before current frame.
dG cut to end of movie.
dgg cut from beginning of movie.
CLONE OPERATIONS
yl,yspace
copy the current frame.
yy,Y copy the current scene.
y$ copy from current frame to end of scene.
y^,y0 copy from start of scene to current frame.
INSERT OPERATIONS
p paste after current frame.
P paste before current frame.
GENERAL COMMANDS
:r inserts a SMIL playlist or DV AVI before frame. (Pops up a file dialog.)
:w saves the movie as a SMIL playlist. (Pops up a file dialog.)
:q quits the program.