DOCUMENTATION

Documentation

The essentials to start with Bernard Review, and the full illustrated user guide.

Getting started in 5 steps

Install. Download the player for your system from the download page. It is free and needs no account.
Open a sequence. Use File > Open File or Sequence…, or drag a file or a folder into the playlist on the left. For an image sequence, pick any one frame: the whole sequence loads as one clip.
Play. Space plays and pauses. The left and right arrows step one frame, ten with Shift. J, K and L play backwards, stop and play forwards.
Compare A and B. Press W. Drop the other version onto the B side of the picture, or double-click it to choose a file. Drag the divider to wipe from one to the other.
Review together. Click Start session, give the session a name, choose who can join, then click Start session in the dialog: the session runs on this machine or on the studio network (or a VPN), and Invite, in the session bar, gives its link. An online session is created in the Bernard Review console and the player joins it by its link; creating it straight from the player is coming soon. Everyone sees the same frame; guests without the player follow in a web browser once Stream to remote guests is ticked in the session menu.

Connect your tracker

File > Tracker… connects the player to your studio's production tracker: it reads a playlist from it and sends the review notes back. Nothing runs on its own: each exchange is a click. The tracker's address must start with https://. The Bernard Engine connection is coming soon.

Essential shortcuts

Keys	Action
`Space`	Play / pause
`J` / `K` / `L`	Play backwards / stop / play forwards
`←` / `→`	Previous / next frame
`Shift`+`←` / `Shift`+`→`	Ten frames back / forward
`I` or `[`	Set the in point
`O` or `]`	Set the out point
`\`	Clear the in and out points
`F`	Fit the image to the window
`1` / `2` / `4`	Zoom 100% / 50% / 25%
`W`	A/B compare
`Shift`+`1` / `Shift`+`2` / `Shift`+`3`	In A/B: A alone / B alone / the wipe
`E` / `Y`	Exposure / gamma (drag, or the wheel; Escape to leave)
`P`	Show or hide the paint tools
`Shift`+`W`	Brush
`Ctrl`+`Z` / `Ctrl`+`Y`	Undo / redo an annotation
`Ctrl`+`S`	Save the playlist
`Ctrl`+`Shift`+`E`	Essential / Complete interface

Every shortcut can be changed in Edit > Keyboard Mapping, and the menus show the keys as printed on your own keyboard.

User guide

The illustrated guide to the player: the Essential and Complete views, playing, comparing, annotating, exporting, reviewing together, colour, memory and trackers.

Developer documentation