okay I'm not saying that I advocate this or that I'm promoting it in any way but
if you are a procrastinator and you put things off to the last minute this video
is probably good for you what is that people Dunna here and today
we're talking about ten shortcuts and features that you can be using to speed
up your editing in Premiere Pro being able to speed up your workflow and
increase your efficiency is something that every editor should be striving for if
you're just doing projects for yourself it's gonna increase the amount of time
that you have to create more and if you're doing projects for clients
it means the potential to impress those clients hit deadlines and in the end
make more money doing what you love to do one of the best ways that you can
speed up your workflow is by using shortcuts on those repetitive tasks that
you're gonna do thousands of times over the span of a project even if each
shortcut only saves you a couple of seconds multiply that by every time you
have to repeat that throughout the project and you're basically a
time-traveling wizard or just really efficient okay let's jump into the first
one number one is creating your own keyboard shortcuts this might seem like
a weird place to start off but it's one of the most important ones if there's
something that I don't mention here today it probably still exists inside
Premiere Pro and if you think it's a good idea you can map it to whatever
keys you want on your keyboard go into the preferences and go into the keyboard
shortcuts and you can customize them however you want find the function that
you want cut beside it and then use the shortcut that you want to use in the end
if the keyboard shortcut is already being used by something it'll give you a
little warning and you can decide whether you want to go ahead with it or
not I found this particularly helpful because I'm used to other software and
other shortcuts from my work in recording studios so when I first
started using Premiere Pro I went in and mapped things out to what I was already
used to simple things like cutting moving things just map them out to where
I already knew them and then I didn't have to learn a whole nother program and
that brings us to our second point which is to add edit all this means is that
we're gonna make a cut in a clip on our timeline now you can go and click the
Blade tool and make that come wherever you want or you can use
the shortcut for it which defaults to being in command K or control K I personally
set it to "B" because that's what I was used to in my other software but you can
set it to whatever you want because you know how now number three everybody's
favorite ripple delete let's say we make a cut in a clip and make another cut and
we want to delete that but we don't want to leave a big empty space on our
timeline we want everything to snap back to where that clip was all you have to
do is use ripple delete to ripple delete highlight the clip that you want to
delete and hit shift delete alternatively if there's already a gap
in your timeline double click to highlight the gap and then hit shift
delete again I map this to a quick key of X because I use this so much one
thing to note on the left side of your timeline there is something called
toggle sync lock and this is gonna change whether each track in your
timeline is going to respond to that ripple delete or whether it's going to
leave the clips in the same place if it's turned off on that track it'll
leave the clips alone if it's turned on everything will snap back with the
ripple delete something very related to ripple delete number four is ripple trim
trimming just means pulling in from the end of a clip so let's say we want to
trim off the last 15 seconds of a clip we can just pull it in or if we leave
our cursor where we want to trim and we hit W it's gonna automatically do the
trim for us and snap everything back into that place so there's no gap in the
timeline again alternatively if you want to trim from the front of a clip you can
put your cursor where you want it hit Q and it'll delete everything off the
front of the clip snapping all the clips back to the place where that clip was
starting now be careful with this one because not only does toggle sync lock
affect this but also the toggle track targeting which is the highlighting of
the a1 v1 v2 so on and so forth essentially enabling which tracks are
going to be affected by this and which ones aren't this can actually be really
handy because sometimes you just want to work on one track at a time and leave
everything else where it is so you can turn off all the other tracks and only
work on the one it takes a little bit of getting used to and you delete a couple
of things you don't want to but you can always undo bonus tip command-z
or control-z undo you probably know that one already
number five is snapping and you can toggle this on and off by using the s
key but there's also a button on the top left side of your timeline and what this
does is it toggles the snapping of different clips when you're moving them
around on the timeline if it's enabled they snap to pretty much everything if
there's a marker if there's another clip you can always snap them to other places
on the timeline but sometimes you want to move them around without them
automatically snapping into place so you can toggle this off move it where you
want it and you're good to go number six is an awesome feature that
not enough people are using and it's the custom workspaces actually even the
workspaces that they give you not enough people are using one of the best things
for usability in Premiere Pro is that you can totally customize the layout the
way that it looks and the way that you interact with it but Premiere Pro also
set you up with a bunch of automatic ones that are designed for each stage of
the process so there's assembly for when you're
picking Clips there's edit for when you're editing there's color for when
you're ready for color grading audio graphics and then I personally
customized a couple of those and made three different setups for myself one
for when I'm just using my laptop it's my single screen setup one for when I'm
at home and I have my secondary monitor so that's my dual screen setup and one
that's designed for editing vertical video for Instagram that has a vertical
video viewer on the right-hand side instead of the space at the top to view
your video which is obviously made for horizontal video once you move a whole
bunch of things around if you want to save your own all you have to do is go
up to the window menu and save your own under the workspaces tab number seven is
a simple but useful one and it's moving your cursor to the next cut on the
timeline sometimes you just want to jump to the next cut see what the next clip
is if you press down it'll go to the next edit and if you press up it'll go
to the previous edit holding shift will make that work too any track in the
timeline but if you just hit up or down without holding shift it'll just go on
the tracks that are activated on the left hand side
number nine is one that I only recently started using and it's super handy and
it's called rearrange clips let's say you've got two clips in a row and you
want to rearrange the order of them if you try and just drag that second one
over the first one it'll just make the first one disappear but if you grab the
second clip hold command or control on a PC and move it before that first clip
it'll actually bump the first clip over now if you've got other tracks as well
and you're only holding command it's actually gonna bump everything over and
it will make cuts and the other tracks so if you only want it to move over
things on the track that you're working on
hold command and option I believe that would be ctrl + Alt on a PC I'm not
really a PC guy and the final shortcut is to copy and paste attributes I talked
about this in a previous video where I talked about hacking speed ramping and
making it quicker throughout a whole sequence what copy and paste attributes
allows you to do is take a whole bunch of different functions of a single clip
and paste them to another clip or multiple other clips all at one time so
let's say I've zoomed in made some keyframes done some things with the
opacity and applied a couple of effects to a clip and I want that to be applied
to all the clips that are in that same series all I have to do is highlight
that first clip on my timeline hit command C to copy or control C on a PC
highlight the other clips that I want to paste those attributes to you can hold
shift to select multiple or just draw a box around them right click on one of
the clips choose paste attributes and then you can select which parts of that
previous clip you want to paste on to the other ones this is really handy for
Clips like this where I'm recording for a long period of time but I cut it down
if I think I want to apply an effect to any of those clips and I want to
eventually do it to all of them all I have to do is do it on the first one and
then paste attributes to the rest of them and bam I'm done as a bonus to that
one you can also remove attributes so if you right-click on any clip you can
click remove attributes and you can get rid of any little part of that clip
restore it back to the way that it originally was as always I want to turn
it over to you guys do you have any shortcuts or features that you use in
Premiere Pro that speed up your workflow share them in the comments let's start a
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