Menus and Keyboard Shortcuts

The tables list Revela’s menus in display order, followed by right-click menus and keyboard controls. Each row points to the section explaining the command.

28.1 Reading the Tables

Each table gives the menu label, shortcut, availability and reference section. A dimmed item is unavailable; the “Enabled when” column gives its conditions.

Three terms recur. Targets are the assets selected in the grid or, when nothing is selected and the grid does not have focus, the asset open in the loupe. A catalog is open means a Catalogue window is in front. The launch sequence is the license and sign-in screens Revela shows before any catalog opens (section 1.2); several items stay dimmed until it is complete.

Some items change their wording with what they will act on: Delete reads Delete 12 Photos, Delete Folder or Delete Node; Paste Grade reads Paste Grade onto 12 Photos. The tables give the plain title and the pattern.

Several items print a key with no modifier, or with ⇧ alone: 0 to 9, P, X, U, \, Esc, ⇧R, ⇧X, ⇧L. These keys work throughout the Catalogue window except while typing in a text field. Section 28.10 lists them with their conditions.

28.2 Revela

28.3 File

There is no Save As and no export of an output from the File menu. Outputs are exported from the Output tab, the output card and Catalogue → Export ▸ (Chapter 25).

28.4 Edit

28.5 Catalogue

28.6 View

28.7 Window and Help

The Help menu also carries the system’s search field. There is no help book.

28.8 Right-Click Menus in the Browser and the Loupe

The grid. The menu acts on the selection when the clicked thumbnail is part of it, and on the clicked thumbnail alone otherwise.

In Recently Deleted the grid’s menu holds only Restore and, in red, Delete <n> Items Now (section 6.8). In References it holds only Delete Reference or Delete <n> References, in red (section 8.6).

The loupe. A right-click on the picture, away from any heal marker, offers Reveal in Finder, Set as Reference, Use Reference ▸, Clear Reference and Export and Delete Photo (or Video) for the open asset (section 7.8). A right-click on a tracked marker on a clip opens the tracking menu (Chapter 23).

28.9 Right-Click Menus in the Sidebar, the Canvas and the Resources Panel

The sidebar. Each kind of row has its own menu.

Recently Deleted, dividers and headers have no menu.

A card on the node canvas. Which items appear depends on the kind of node.

The resources panel. Right-click a row.

Copy to ▸ and Move to ▸ appear once the catalog has kits. The + button at the end of the panel’s tab bar opens New Kit and Add a Kit from a Repository on every tab (section 17.6).

28.10 Keys by Where They Work

These are the keys that act without a menu, including the bare keys the menus print. Every one does nothing while a text field has the cursor or text is being edited on the picture. “Anywhere” means anywhere in the Catalogue window.

Culling, anywhere. These act on the targets. With Advance After Rating or Flagging on, the grid moves to the next asset afterwards (section 5.3).

The grid, while it has focus (section 5.2).

The loupe, anywhere.

A reference (Chapter 8).

Playback, while a clip is open in the loupe (section 9.8).

Crop mode (section 18.2).

Mask mode (section 19.2).

Healing, while the heal overlay shows (section 20.7).

Frequency separation, while the tab is active on its node (section 21.7).

The node canvas, while it has focus (Chapter 11).

Text boxes take Return and Esc while their text is being edited (Chapter 22).

28.11 Keys With Two Meanings

Some keys have different functions according to the active mode. These rules determine which command runs.

• ⌥← and ⌥→ are printed on Catalogue → Previous and Next and on View → Previous Tag Range and Next Tag Range. While the clip in the loupe has range tags, they move between the tags; otherwise they move through the grid.
• ⇧⌘H has no menu item. It is not ⌘H, which hides Revela, nor ⌥⌘H, which hides the other apps.
• S cycles the split orientation, except while the Frequency Separation tab is active, where it arms Smooth. C enters crop mode, except on that tab, where it arms Clone. H has a meaning only on that tab.
• ⌥1 to ⌥3 apply pinned tags, except while the Frequency Separation tab is active, where they switch its view. ⌥4 to ⌥9 keep their tags.
• I, O and the arrows set trim points and step frames, except in crop mode, where O cycles the overlays and the arrows nudge the box. J, K and L keep playing in crop mode. In mask mode O also shows and hides the overlay.
• X rejects; ⇧X swaps reference sides; in crop mode X swaps the box’s width and height. L plays forwards; ⇧L locks reference zoom; ⌥L adds a layer node. P picks; ⌥P adds a parallel node.
• Space peeks while a reference is set and plays or pauses a clip otherwise.
• Esc acts on an armed mode (crop, mask, healing, frequency separation, the eyedropper) as its table in section 28.10 says, clears a search in the focused grid, and clears a reference. It is printed on Catalogue → Clear Reference.
• ⌫ is taken by an armed mode or a selected range tag before it reaches the grid or the canvas. Edit → Delete (⌘⌫) is the menu route for the grid, the loupe, the canvas and the sidebar’s folders.
• Home and End go to the ends of the clip’s range unless the grid has focus. Click the picture first.
• 1 rates one star; ⌘1 is Actual Size.

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