Here are ten shortcuts that I use every single time I open up Premiere Pro.
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Keyboard shortcuts
The great thing about this window is if you hit any key on the keyboard,
it will show you exactly what command that key does.
If I press and hold down the forward delete key, you'll notice that it tells
you the exact commands that that key will do, as well as if you were to add
any modifiers like if I add shift, the command would be ripple delete,
which leads me to the first shortcut that I use all the time ripple deleting.
Now staying inside my keyboard shortcuts menu, I want to showcase to you
that you can actually apply two different keyboard shortcuts
to the same command because I reply delete a lot while editing.
I also want to apply the T key as a shortcut,
so to do this, I'll go to the search bar type in ripple delete double click
in the negative space right here and I'll hit the T key below
It will give you a warning if you are going to override
any previous shortcuts with that keystroke,
because I don't use the type to a very much.
I'm completely fine with having T as a shortcut for Ripple Delete.
I'll hit OK, and let's say we want to completely get rid of this turtle clip.
Highlight the clip.
I'll hit T to Ripple Delete that clip.
And what Ripple deleting does is delete the section
that's highlighted and shift all of the clips over.
Now let me on do that, and let's say I wanted to get rid of a whole section
of clips here from the time this person jumps over the fence
all the way to when this dog is grabbing this stick.
A common way to delete in this case would be to set an in and out point.
So I'll hit "I" on my keyboard where I want my inpoint to be.
Then I'll scrub over to where the dog is biting the stick and I'll hit
"O" on my keyboard to set my outpoint and If I hit the keyboard shortcut
to ripple delete, it will delete everything that's within the in and out
brackets.
I hit 'T" and we ripple deleted that whole section.
Now let me go over a similar method called ripple trimming.
And let's say I actually wanted to keep this turtle clip, but
only the part where the turtle falls off the log like this on the keyboard.
I'll hit the Q key and notice how it ripple
trimmed from the play head to the previous edit point.
And now I want to ripple trim from my play head to the next edit point.
From this point forward, if I hit W,
it deleted everything in that space and shifted everything over.
To recap when Ripple trimming its Q and W
instead of creating cuts or splits
on the clip by using the razor tool,
the command that I think is faster is to add edit.
If you're unfamiliar with add edit, if you move the play head anywhere along
the timeline and hit Command K on Mac or Control K on Windows, it creates
cuts on the clips instead of having Command K as my add edit shortcut.
I've switched that to F.
Now let's talk about Select Clip at Play Head by default.
You can do this by hitting the "D" key So with the play head above my clip,
if I d, it will select a clip at play head to other things to add
to selecting a clip.
one is the modifier of holding option while you're selecting the clip.
So if I hold option on Mac or Alt on Windows and select the clip,
that will allow me to select only the video or only the audio to add onto
this is nudging clips up and down, with the clip highlighted hold option
and hit the up or down arrows to nudge the clip up or down.
A super simple concept, but I use that all the time.
Let's talk about duplication.
If I click this clip over here and I hold option
while I click and drag it now, I have created a duplicate of that clip.
I use this method all the time when I'm duplicating something in the sequence.
And speaking of duplicating in sequences, the next one I want to talk about
is duplicating sequences. Normally you could do this
by right clicking on the sequence and hit duplicate.
I do this quite often, so I like to have a shortcut key for it.
So what I've done is taken the same keyboard stroke
for when you're in Photoshop and you need to duplicate a layer by hitting Command J
on Mac or control on Windows and applying that here if I hit Command J.
It automatically creates a copy of the sequence
and I can continue working on the sequence or if for some reason
I have to go back to a previous iteration of my sequences.
They're right there before I show you more of the shortcuts I use.
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Another one I use all the time is to enable a clip and more
so to unenable a clip.
But the keyboard stroke is to enable the clip.
Let's say in this example, I wanted to A/B test
how these two different clips look at this part in the timeline.
And what you normally would do is right click and click Enable.
And that would un-enable the clip on the top,
thus making it easy for you to see the clip on the bottom.
But the keyboard shortcut for this is shift command e on Mac
or shift control e on Windows, so you can quickly un
enable and enable your clips with that shortcut key.
Chances are while you're editing, you're also zooming in and out on the timeline.
By default, that's the plus and equals key to Zoom in the minus key to zoom out.
And one that people may not know about is the backslash.
Key will zoom to sequence.
So I zoom in by hitting the plus or equals sign.
Hit the minus to zoom out and I'll zoom in again.
And if I hit the backslash key, it'll automatically fit
your whole sequence to the timeline.
Just to give you a better example, let me move this clip
all the way over here. Let me zoom in again.
I'll hit the backslash.
It zooms out to the whole sequence, and the cool thing
is, if I hit the backslash one more time,
it will go back to my previous zoomed in spot.
Like that.
And also sticking with the topic of zooming
in, if you want to have a window, take up the entire screen.
All you have to do is put that cursor above whatever window that is
and hit the tilde key.
That's the key right underneath your escape key.
So I'll hit tilde and that makes this full screen hit tilde again, it takes it off.
Now, if you're looking to
make your program monitor full screen just hit controll tilde,
and now your program monitor will play full screen
to go back to normal, just control tilde again.
one thing I found myself doing often is switching between my windows
and specifically the project window
the effects window and the effects control window to bring those up quickly.
If you hit Shift one, you'll bring up your project window.
You hit Shift five, you'll bring up your effects control window.
And if you hit Shift seven, that brings up the effects window.
So if you're ever editing and you want to access those windows
quickly, remember those three shift one, shift five and shift seven.
one major aspect of Premiere Pro that has a big effect
on some of the shortcuts that I talked about in this video like Ripple,
deleting and selecting your clip at the Play Head is your track targeting.
So if you want to learn all about that little section over to the left
of the timeline inside Premiere Pro, I made a video about it right here.
And until next time, my name's Javier
Mercedes, and I hope you're out there living a life of abundance by.