VLC Player
In preparation for another tutorial video (Standard Workflow) I was reminded that we use VLC Player for a lot of things. VLC Player is a very good free video player with a lot of very useful functions. In the video, we run through the download and installation process, as well as outlining the process of generating small video clips (we call them "snippets") without a great deal of work. Watch the video and then check out the list of standard shortcut keys below.
The following are all of the VLC hotkeys, as found on the VLC Wiki page. We've highlighted yellow the keys we use the most. One of the most useful (and one we didn't mention in the video) is "E". Frame by frame forward, accompanied with GoPro 60 FPS and greater video is a great tool for breaking down mechanics.
| Ctrl + A | Advanced controls |
| Ctrl + B | Bookmarks |
| Ctrl + C | Open capture device |
| Ctrl + D | Open disc |
| Ctrl + E | Extended settings |
| Ctrl + F | Open Folder/Directory |
| Ctrl + H | hide/show menus (a.k.a Minimal view; like in Acrobat Reader) |
| Ctrl + I | Media Information |
| Ctrl + J | Codecs Information |
| Ctrl + L | Hide/Show playlist |
| Ctrl + M | Messages |
| Ctrl + N | Open network stream |
| Ctrl + O | Open File |
| Ctrl + P | Preferences |
| Ctrl + Q | Quit |
| Ctrl + R | Convert/Save |
| Ctrl + S | Streaming |
| Ctrl + T | Goto Time |
| Ctrl + U | Dock/Undock playlist |
| Ctrl + V | Paste Location/Paste MRL |
| Ctrl + Shift+W | VLM configurator |
| Ctrl + X | Load playlist |
| Ctrl + Y | Save playlist |
| + | faster |
| - | slower |
| ESC | leave fullscreen/close dialogue |
| space | play/pause |
| Enter | select menu entry (dvd) |
| Arrows | navigate menus (dvd) |
| A | cycle aspect ratio |
| B | cycle audio track |
| C | cycle cropping ratio |
| D | cycle deinterlace filters |
| E | next frame (Great frame by frame control) |
| F | toggle fullscreen |
| G | subdelay down |
| H | subdelay up |
| I | interface show |
| J | audiodelay down |
| K | audiodelay up OR next subtitle-track (or none) (??????????????) |
| L | loop |
| M | mute |
| N | next track |
| O | original video size ( adding the black borders to the video ) |
| P | previous track |
| R | random |
| S | stop |
| T | position/time |
| V | subtitle track cycle |
| W | wallpaper (does only work with video output DirectX) |
| Z | cycle zoom |
| Shift + A | cycle audio device |
| Shift + B | title next |
| Shift + G | history back |
| Shift + H | history forward |
| Shift + N | chapter next |
| Shift + O | title prev |
| Shift + P | chapter prev |
| Shift + M | disc menu |
| Shift + R | Record |
| Shift + S | snapshot |
| Alt + A | audio menu (English translation) |
| Alt + C | crop / (+shift) uncrop bottom |
| Alt + D | crop / (+shift) uncrop left |
| Alt + F | crop / (+shift) uncrop right |
| Alt + H | help menu (English translation) |
| Alt + L | playback menu (English translation) |
| Alt + M | media menu (English translation) |
| Alt + R | crop / (+shift) uncrop top |
| Alt + T | tools menu (English translation) |
| Alt + V | video menu (English translation) |
| Alt + Left Arrow | jump 10 sec. back |
| Alt + Right Arrow | jump 10 sec. forward |
| Control + Left Arrow | jump 1 minute back |
| Control + Right Arrow | jump 1 minute forward |
| Control + Alt + Left Arrow | jump 5 minutes back |
| Control + Alt + Right Arrow | jump 5 minutes forward |
| Shift + Left Arrow | jump 5 seconds back |
| Shift + Right Arrow | jump 5 seconds forward |