Main Editor View

The Main Editor is the primary working environment used to build and test a show. It is accessible at the root URL (http://localhost:8123/).

Header Bar

Element	Description
Logo / Brand	Customisable via public/brand/ assets
Project name / Save	The loaded show and when it was last saved — or Unsaved changes, with a dot on the disk icon, while the show file is behind your edits; click the name to rename it, the disk icon to save
Undo / Redo	Step back / forward through your edits
Multiclient alarm	Master of a multi-client rig only, and only while a client has stopped answering: a red pill naming the machine (RENDER-A offline). Click it to open the Network tab
MUTE | BLANK	One pair of switches for what reaches the room, each on its own: MUTE silences the sound on every machine (the picture stays up), BLANK fades every output to black and back. A switch that is on turns red and says so — MUTED, BLANKED. The ▾ beside BLANK picks the fade (Cut, 2, 5, 10 s, Custom); the current fade is in its tooltip
SHOW OFF / SHOW ON	Whether any output window shows a frame — the largest switch in the row; lit green while the show is on
☰ menu	Project commands (New, Load, Save, Export, Check Project), Audio Mixer, Auto-Heal & Watchdog, and at the foot of that column VIOSO Cloud (a dot and a word for the pairing — click it to connect; once connected it opens Open Cloud Profile, Connection details, Sentinel alerts and Log out; a red ! on the ☰ button means a pairing that worked no longer does); in the right-hand column Walkthroughs, Tutorials, Documentation (this manual), Keyboard shortcuts, Fullscreen, Splash screen (switches the animated start screen on or off for this browser), Restart / Close Exaplay, Settings, Send log (this machine's engine log, output list and version as a ZIP — saved, or sent to support@vioso.com by email; with no share sheet, the ZIP is saved and a mail opens that names the file to attach), System Information, License and About. Monitor and Inputs are tabs of the Control view; they appear here only on a machine without a Control tab (Control Buddy)
Diagnostics	Toggle the Performance Diagnostics overlay
Preview (monitor icon)	Opens the Output Preview
Raw wall ON	Shown only while the outputs run without their calibration (on a multi-client rig: every machine's); click to put the calibration back
Connection status	A lost connection to the engine covers the window with Offline until the engine answers again. If the engine is still connected but its performance data stops, Vio, the assistant orb in the header, says so

Walkthroughs

☰ menu → Walkthroughs opens the overview of every recorded walkthrough: short recordings of the real interface that work offline. Pick a topic, or type in the search field: it finds a walkthrough by any step it shows, says which step that is, and Step n starts the walkthrough right there. Enter plays the best match.

Walkthrough

☰ menu → Walkthroughs → Running the show → Blank the wall — cut or fade chooses the fade and brings the picture back; Saving the show — and knowing when it isn't reads the header's unsaved mark and saves with Ctrl+S.

Composition Area

The centre shows the active composition's Timeline or Playlist, with the composition tabs and the Transport bar (play, pause, stop and the time) above it and the File Browser below it. Click a clip or cue to show it in the Inspector.

For a live picture of a screen, open the Output Preview.

A composition tab with an orange ! plays on a field that no longer exists — its screen was deleted on the Stage. Its content is still played and decoded, but shown nowhere. Point at the ! to see which field; open the composition and the note above it says the same, with Pick a field, which opens the composition (or the track or clip that names the field) in the Inspector to choose another one. Adding the screen back on the Stage also clears it.

Keyboard Shortcuts

The same list opens in the editor itself: press ? (Shift+/), or choose ☰ menu → Keyboard shortcuts. On a Mac, Cmd stands in for Ctrl.

Shortcut	Action
Space	Play / Pause the active composition
Ctrl+S	Save the show
Ctrl+Z	Undo
Ctrl+Y / Ctrl+Shift+Z	Redo
Ctrl+click	Add a clip or cue to the selection; on a Timeline track's header, add the track (for Group N Tracks / Ctrl+G)
Shift+click	Playlist: select a range of items; on a Timeline track's header, select every track from the last one clicked
Delete	Remove the selected clips or cues (opens a confirmation dialog); with a gap selected on the Timeline, close the gap instead
Shift+Delete	Remove one selected clip and close the gap it leaves, so its neighbours end up flush — deliberately skips the confirmation
Enter	Confirm the pending delete
Esc	Playlist: close the context menu, then clear the selection
F2	Rename the selected clip, cue, track or playlist row in place (a double-click on its name does the same); Enter saves, Esc cancels
Ctrl+C / Ctrl+V	Copy / paste clips — on the Timeline at the playhead, in a Playlist after the selected row; the clipboard is shared between the two
Ctrl+D	Playlist: duplicate the selected rows right below
F1–F12	Fire a cue — the key is set per cue in the Inspector, optionally with Alt / Shift (see below)
F11	Toggle fullscreen (the browser's own; ☰ → Fullscreen does the same from the menu)
?	Open this list in the editor

Control tab

Shortcut	Action
Delete	Remove the selected control, device, scheduled action or panel (opens a confirmation dialog)
F2	Rename the selected composition, control or device — the Inspector's name field takes the keyboard; Enter saves

Network tab

Shortcut	Action
Delete	Forget the selected offline machine (opens a confirmation dialog)
F2	Rename the selected machine — the Inspector's name field takes the keyboard; Enter saves

User panel page

Shortcut	Action
Ctrl+Shift+E	On a panel opened on its own page: back to the Exaplay interface, opening on the Stage without the start view. The way out of a machine set to Start Exaplay with → Control → User Panels → As user panel

Stage tab

Shortcut	Action
Esc	Close the open menu or help popover; drop a drag in flight; leave a screen opened by double-click (back to where you came from); clear the selection
Enter	With a question open — "already assigned" or a delete — answer it (change the assignment / delete); Esc cancels
Wheel	Zoom at the pointer
Alt+drag	Move the view (dragging with the right or middle mouse button does the same)
Ctrl+drag	On empty canvas: add to the selection with a marquee (Shift+drag does the same)
Double-click	On a screen: work on that screen large, with its fields
Tab / Shift+Tab	With a field selected and its warping on: select the next / previous warp point
← ↑ → ↓	With a warp point selected: move it by 0.01 (Shift: 0.1); Enter or Esc deselects it
↑ / ↓	In an overlap field: nudge the overlap by 1 px (Shift: 10, Ctrl: 100)

Timeline-only shortcuts

These are active while the Timeline panel has focus:

Shortcut	Action
f	Fit the timeline zoom to show all clips
+ / -	Zoom in / out
Ctrl+wheel	Zoom at the pointer
Shift+wheel	Scroll sideways
s	Turn snapping off / on (on by default, no on-screen indicator)
c	Turn collision off / on (on by default — a dragged clip stops at its neighbours)
Ctrl+C / Ctrl+V	Copy / paste the selected clips and cues (pasted at the playhead)
Ctrl+K	Split the selected clips (or, with nothing selected, every clip) at the playhead
Ctrl+G	Group the selected tracks — selected by Ctrl+click / Shift+click on their headers, or the tracks of the selected clips — see Timeline Groups
Ctrl+Shift+G	Ungroup the selected group (or the group of the selected track); its tracks stay
Home / End	Jump the playhead to the first clip's start / the last clip's end
Tab / Shift+Tab	Jump the playhead to the next / previous snap point
M	Toggle compact / normal track view
Double-click	On the ruler: add a cue there

Keyframe lanes

With a keyframe selected in an opacity, volume, data-track or tween lane:

Shortcut	Action
← / →	Move the keyframe by one frame (Shift: a tenth of a frame)
↑ / ↓	Change its value by 1 % of the range (Shift: 0.1 %)
Delete	Remove the keyframe
Esc	Deselect it
Space	With a lane focused: open the large curve editor
Ctrl++ / Ctrl+-	Large editor: zoom (Ctrl+0 resets the view, ← / → pan, Home returns to the start)

Cue hotkeys

Timeline cues can be assigned their own trigger key (F1–F12, optionally with Shift/Alt) — configured per cue in the Inspector, not fixed. See Cues on the Timeline.

Theming & Branding

Exaplay 3 supports white-label theming. Place custom assets in public/brand/:

File	Purpose
logo.png	Replaces the header logo and the logo on the start-up splash screen
theme-override.css	CSS overrides for colours, fonts, etc. (loaded after the app's own styles)
banner.png	Header background image