Finding your channels and shows — and what the editor can do

Once you’ve built a few things, the two questions are always where is it and how do I change it. ChannelOS keeps that simple: shows are your content, channels are how content airs. Here’s where each lives and what the editor gives you.

Channels — the broadcast timelines

Open Channels (/channels). Each channel is a row showing its status (On air / Takeover), the show airing now, its aspect and a live screen count. Click a channel to open its detail page (/channels/{id}), where the full-day timeline shows the day’s schedule, the airing-now banner names the current show, and you can schedule, drag and resize program blocks.

Shows — your slide-shows

Open Shows (/shows). It’s a grid of cards: a slide thumbnail, the show name, a source badge (AI / Manual / Template), slide count and aspect. Filter by All / AI / Manual / Templates, or hit New show to make another.

Opening the editor

Click a show card (or its Edit item) and you drop into the full-screen editor at /shows/{id}/edit: a top bar with the show name, undo/redo, save and Publish; a tool rail on the left; the canvas in the center; and a fixed toolbar that changes with whatever you’ve selected.

The canvas — direct manipulation

Click an element to select it; transform handles appear. Drag the body to move, corner handles to resize, the top handle to rotate. Arrow keys nudge 1px, Shift+Arrow moves 10px. ⌘-click adds to a selection, and ⌘G groups several elements into one transformable unit (baked geometry — the player stays group-blind, so what you build is exactly what airs).

The toolbar — contextual by type

The toolbar is fixed and shows controls for what’s selected:

• Text — font, size, bold/italic/underline, alignment, text and highlight color.
• Image — fit, corner radius, filters, overlay, border, shadow.
• Video — trim window, mute, loop, plus the same styling controls.
• Multiple items — align (left/center/right, top/middle/bottom), distribute, and Group.
• Nothing selected — the slide itself: Duration (seconds) and Transition (fade / slide / none).

The tool rail — adding things

Down the left side:

• Text — presets: Add a heading, Add a subheading, Add body text, Add a caption. Double-click any text to edit inline with full rich text (bold, italic, underline, lists, color, highlight, font, size).
• Elements — shapes and live widgets.
• Photos — drag-and-drop upload, your previous uploads, and a free Pexels photo feed pre-seeded to your brand. Click or drag a tile onto the canvas.
• Video — the same, for free Pexels clips.
• AI — Rewrite this slide or Add a slide from a prompt, with a live progress thread.

Background removal is built in: drop an image and turn it into a clean transparent cutout, no external tool.

Keyboard shortcuts — one registry, every surface

Every chord is defined once and surfaced in a ⌘ / Ctrl help overlay (the floating button, bottom-right), so the help and the behavior never drift. mod is ⌘ on macOS, Ctrl on Windows/Linux, and shortcuts pause while you’re typing in a field.

Action	macOS	Windows / Linux
Undo	⌘Z	Ctrl+Z
Redo	⌘⇧Z / ⌘Y	Ctrl+Y
Copy	⌘C	Ctrl+C
Cut	⌘X	Ctrl+X
Paste at pointer	⌘V	Ctrl+V
Duplicate	⌘D	Ctrl+D
Delete	Del / ⌫	Del / ⌫
Select all	⌘A	Ctrl+A
Deselect	Esc	Esc
Group	⌘G	Ctrl+G
Ungroup	⌘⇧G	Ctrl+Shift+G
Bring forward / back	⌘] / ⌘[	Ctrl+] / Ctrl+[

Copy/paste drops at the pointer (clamped to the canvas), so duplicating an element lands it where you’re looking, not stacked on the original.

Managing slides

In the slide panel, click a thumbnail to open it, duplicate or delete from hover or the right-click menu, rename in place, and drag to reorder. Add a slide directly, or generate one from a prompt in the AI tool.

The thread that ties it together

Find it in Shows or Channels, open it, change it — and because a screen’s content is derived from the show and the schedule, your edits reach every tuned screen in real time. No re-publish, no device sync. Edit once; it airs everywhere.