Cubric Studio - Hotkeys

Hotkeys

Power-user shortcuts from the in-app Help panel, now documented for Cubric Studio workflows.

Move around with the Tab radial

Tab no longer flips straight between the Gallery and your last card. Hold Tab instead: a radial menu opens, move the mouse toward the option you want, and let go. Letting go in the middle picks nothing. It works from the Gallery and from inside a card, including inside a Flow, the Flow Library, or the model picker.

Four destinations: Gallery, Models (opens the model picker), Flows (opens the Flow Library), and Latest Workspace, the last card you had open.

The Tab radial over a dimmed Gallery: Gallery, Flows, Models and Latest Workspace in four quarters, with a line from the centre toward Gallery and that quarter lit — Hold Tab and move toward a quarter: the one you are heading for lights up, and letting go opens it.

Cubric Studio remembers that last card per project, and remembers it after you close the app, so Latest Workspace returns you to where you left off. If a project has no cards yet, Latest Workspace greys out. If you delete the card it was holding on to, Latest Workspace greys out rather than sending you somewhere you did not ask for.

Keyboard shortcuts

For keys not listed as Cmd in the macOS column, the Windows/Linux keys are identical on Mac unless noted.

Dialogue and overlay

Action	Windows / Linux	macOS
Accept	`Enter`	`Enter`
Close / cancel	`Esc`	`Esc`
Open context menu	`Menu` or `Shift` + `F10`	`Menu` or `Shift` + `F10`
Toggle fullscreen	`F11`	`F11`
Change UI size	`Ctrl` + `+` / `-`	`Cmd` + `+` / `-`

UI size is remembered between launches. Ctrl + mouse wheel no longer changes it — macOS delivers a two-finger trackpad pinch as a Ctrl+scroll, so pinching to zoom an image resized the whole interface. The keyboard shortcut above always did the same job and is unaffected. Mouse-wheel zoom on the canvas, held-space zoom, and the mask brush size are unchanged.

Workspace modes

Action	Windows / Linux	macOS
Toggle focus mode	`F`	`F`
Exit focus mode	`Esc`	`Esc`
Release memory	`F5`	`F5`
Release memory + cache	`Ctrl` + `F5`	`Cmd` + `F5`
Show memory monitor details (hold)	`Ctrl`	`Ctrl`

Agent

Action	Windows / Linux	macOS
Toggle the Agent panel	`A`	`A`

Image canvas and pointer interaction

Action	Windows / Linux	macOS
Zoom	Mouse `Wheel`	Mouse `Wheel`
Pan	Mouse `Click` + `Drag`	Mouse `Click` + `Drag`
Reset view	Double `Click`	Double `Click`
Zoom (while holding SPACE)	Mouse `Wheel`	Mouse `Wheel`
Pan (while holding SPACE)	Mouse `Click` + `Drag`	Mouse `Click` + `Drag`
Reset view (while holding SPACE)	Double `Click`	Double `Click`

Canvas tools

Action	Windows / Linux	macOS
Brush size	Mouse `Wheel`	Mouse `Wheel`
Paint brush	`B`	`B`
Eraser	`E`	`E`
Undo the last canvas edit	`Ctrl` + `Z`	`Ctrl` + `Z`
Redo the last undone canvas edit	`Ctrl` + `Shift` + `Z`	`Ctrl` + `Shift` + `Z`
Resize a shape without squashing it (hold)	`Shift`	`Shift`
Rotate a shape (hold, over a handle)	`Alt`	`Alt`

Undo applies to the canvas only. Ctrl + Z takes back a canvas edit — a brush stroke on the mask or on paint, a Clear, a committed detection, an applied Adjust — and Ctrl + Shift + Z puts it back. Nothing else in Cubric Studio has an undo. One history is shared by the mask and paint layers in the order you worked, so undo inside the Paint tool can walk back into a mask stroke. It follows you between tools and starts fresh when you open a different image.

Gallery

Action	Windows / Linux	macOS
Grid size	`+` / `-`	`+` / `-`
Toggle cue panel	`Q`	`Q`
Toggle card info mode	`I`	`I`
Multi-select items	`Shift` + `Click`	`Shift` + `Click`
Single select items	`Ctrl` + `Click`	`Cmd` + `Click`
Item context menu	`Right` + `Click`	`Right` + `Click`
Deselect all	`Esc`	`Esc`
Delete selected cards	`Delete`	`Delete`
Drag to prompt box	Mouse `Click` + `Drag`	Mouse `Click` + `Drag`

When exactly two cards are selected (not a stack), compare overlay is available.

History

Action	Windows / Linux	macOS
Multi-select entries	`Shift` + `Click`	`Shift` + `Click`
Single select entry	`Ctrl` + `Click`	`Cmd` + `Click`
Entry context menu	`Right` + `Click`	`Right` + `Click`
Deselect all or return to gallery	`Esc`	`Esc`
Delete selected entries	`Delete`	`Delete`

Generation

Action	Windows / Linux	macOS
Cue generation	`Ctrl` + `Enter`	`Cmd` + `Enter`
Stop current job	`Ctrl` + `Alt` + `Enter`	`Cmd` + `Option` + `Enter`
Toggle loop mode	`Ctrl` + `L`	`Cmd` + `L`
Blur text field (restore app hotkeys)	`Esc`	`Esc`

Dictation

Action	Windows / Linux	macOS
Dictate into the prompt box or the Agent panel (hold)	`Ctrl` + `Space`	`Ctrl` + `Space`

Hold, speak, and release to write out what was said. See Audio and Dictation.

Flow

Action	Windows / Linux	macOS
Previous step	Left arrow	Left arrow
Next step	Right arrow	Right arrow

Video player

Action	Windows / Linux	macOS
Play / pause	`Space`	`Space`
Previous frame	`Left arrow`	`Left arrow`
Next frame	`Right arrow`	`Right arrow`
Jump to first frame	`Home`	`Home`
Jump to last frame	`End`	`End`
Toggle mute	`M`	`M`
Volume +10%	`Up arrow`	`Up arrow`
Volume -10%	`Down arrow`	`Down arrow`
Toggle loop	`L`	`L`
Set trim in to playhead	`I`	`I`
Set trim out to playhead	`O`	`O`
Reset trim range	`X`	`X`

GIF Player

Action	Windows / Linux	macOS
Play / pause	`Space`	`Space`
Previous frame	Left arrow	Left arrow
Next frame	Right arrow	Right arrow
Delete selected frames	`Backspace`	`Backspace`

Compare overlay

Action	Windows / Linux	macOS
Play / pause both videos	`Space`	`Space`
Previous frame (no loop)	`Left arrow`	`Left arrow`
Next frame (no loop)	`Right arrow`	`Right arrow`
Toggle loop	`L`	`L`

Crop

Action	Windows / Linux	macOS
Scale from center	`Shift` + `Mouse` (while dragging handles)	`Shift` + `Mouse` (while dragging handles)