Keyboard shortcuts

Press ? anywhere in the editor to bring up this list without leaving the canvas.

Mixture follows Figma’s conventions where it can and video-editor conventions where those are stronger, so most of these should already be in your fingers. On Windows and Linux, use Ctrl wherever ⌘ is shown.

Tools

Shortcut	Does
V	Select
R	Rectangle
O	Ellipse
T	Text
P	Pen
Enter	Finish the path you’re drawing
Esc	Leave the current mode — point editing, 3D edit, clip editing

Pressing a shape shortcut arms that tool exactly as clicking its toolbar button does, so the button lights up too. Press the same key again, or V, to go back to the cursor.

Navigating the canvas

Shortcut	Does
Space hold + drag	Pan the canvas
⌘+	Zoom in
⌘−	Zoom out
⌘0	Reset the view

Zoom applies to whichever surface your pointer is over: hover the timeline and ⌘+ zooms the timeline instead of the canvas. Both are on screen at once, so the pointer decides.

Playback

Shortcut	Does
Space tap	Play / pause

Space does double duty — hold to pan, tap to play. Mixture tells them apart by whether you panned during the hold, so both work without conflicting.

Editing

Shortcut	Does
⌘Z	Undo
⇧⌘Z	Redo
⌘C	Copy
⌘X	Cut
⌘V	Paste
⌘D	Duplicate
⌘A	Select everything in the scene
Delete / Backspace	Delete the selection

Undo and redo work even while your cursor is in a text field, so a mistake mid-edit is always recoverable.

Duplicate lands in place, not offset — nudging the copy sideways would misalign anything full-bleed. The duplicate is what’s selected afterwards, so dragging moves the copy and leaves the original where it was. It also doesn’t disturb your clipboard: whatever you copied earlier is still there to paste.

Select all takes the scene’s top-level layers. It deliberately doesn’t also select layers inside groups — selecting a group and its children would apply every subsequent nudge to the same layers twice.

Copy and paste carry a layer’s animation with it. A layer’s motion lives on the scene rather than the layer, so pasting re-keys the keyframes, operations and intents onto the new copy — a duplicate arrives fully animated.

In the point editor, Delete removes the selected points rather than the layer.

Arranging

Shortcut	Does
⌘G	Group the selection
⇧⌘G	Ungroup
⌘]	Bring to front
⌘[	Send to back

Ungrouping lifts the children back out exactly where they sit, in the same stacking position the group occupied.

Non-US keyboards

On German, Nordic, Spanish and similar layouts, [ and ] are typed with AltGr, which means the bracket shortcuts aren’t practically reachable there. Use Bring to front / Send to back from the right-click menu instead — same actions, no key combination required. (Every other shortcut on this page works on any layout.)

Note

Two kinds of group won’t ungroup: one that’s been rotated or scaled, and one using auto layout. In both cases the children’s stored positions aren’t where they actually render, so dissolving the group would scatter them. Mixture leaves the group intact rather than doing that — remove the rotation, or turn off auto layout, and it’ll ungroup normally.

Moving precisely

Shortcut	Does
← → ↑ ↓	Nudge by 1px
⇧ + arrows	Nudge by 10px

Nudging is zoom-independent — one press is always one composition pixel, whether you’re at 25% or 400%. That’s predictability over visibility: when you’re zoomed out and 1px is invisible, reach for ⇧.

A burst of presses collapses into a single undo step, so nudging something twenty times doesn’t cost twenty undos to get back.

Arrows work on a multiple selection and move everything together.

Animating

Shortcut	Does
⌘K	Open the animate palette

Describe the motion you want in plain language and it becomes a real animation on the selected layer — see Animate a layer.

Not shortcuts, but worth knowing

Some of the most useful moves are gestures:

• Double-click a shape to edit its points. On a rectangle you get its corners plus an “add point” dot on each edge; clicking one converts it to an editable path. See Morph shapes.
• Double-click a group to step inside and work on its children.
• Drag on empty canvas to marquee-select.
• Shift-click or ⌘-click to add to a selection.
• Right-click a layer for Group, Repeat, Make 3D, Morph to…, Convert to path, and the stacking commands.
• Click a selected clip on the timeline at the moment you care about to open its menu there — Split, Cut, Zooms, Speed. See Edit video.