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December 29, 2022
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favorite keyboard shortcuts

  • December 29, 2022
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Thought this might be an informative thread where we share our favorite keyboard shortcuts particularly those that may not be obvious...  I've been doing this for a very long time, starting in very early versions of Avid Media Composer and FinalCut 1...  I used to obsess about keyboard shortcuts, but over the last few years, I've loosened up a bit.  But whenever I'm involved in constantly using repetitive tasks, I start exploring Premiere shortcuts.  It's pretty amazing how deep and useful this feature is.  And I'm constantly discovering useful keyboard shortcuts that didn’t seem obviously available. 

For example, I do a great deal of editing on a 2012 macbookpro when I’m working at a client’s office…. It’s a severely underpowered machine that’s pretty close to end of life since I cannot update the OS beyond Cataline, so I’m stuck on Premiere 2022…. I work with low res proxies and it works fine…. When I’m doing edits for verbal content, I usually work at ¼ resolution in the program monitor for smooth playback, but often want to review it at ½ resolution after rendering a section.  After mousing to change the program monitor resolution constantly, I thought… maybe there’s a keyboard shortcut…. The search function in the keyboard shortcuts is great and I searched ¼ and there it was, as was ½.  Just mapped them to 4 and 2. Maybe those of you who’s memory is better than mine can instantly remember your shortcuts, but it always is helpful for me to use a keyboard shortcut that’s easy to remember.  I also use post-its attached to my screen….and I often change the default shortcut to something that’s easier for me to remember…

I hope this thread will be useful to both neophytes and experts.  Always amazes me how much I don’t know in Premiere….

 

Happy New Year everyone.

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Peru Bob
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 29, 2022

Unfortunately, Ctrl + Z is my most used shortcut.

Ctrl + K  (split clip) and  Ctrl + Alt + V (paste attributes) are used frequently.

I remapped some keys (unused Windows and Menu keys) with KeyTweak to make reaching some keys easier.

 

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R Neil Haugen
Legend
December 30, 2022

Can KeyTweak change Windows shorts? Like ... freeing the Alt key so Windows doesn't grab it?

 

Neil

Everyone's mileage always varies ...
R Neil Haugen
Legend
January 2, 2023
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Can KeyTweak change Windows shorts? Like ... freeing the Alt key so Windows doesn't grab it?

 

Neil


By @R Neil Haugen

 

Once a key is rekeyed, it behaves just like the key to which it is changed.

You can't change the properties of the key, but you can change which key it is.


My comment had to do with my frustration that Windows overrides applications ... such as when you have an Alt-W or Alt-R combination, many others ... Windows will take over and whatever hotkey action Windows has assigned for that is what you get.

 

I never, ever use hotkeys for Windows, and would dearly, dearly love to kill that behavior.

 

As it means that setting most Alt-something combinations in Premiere doesn't actually work something in Premiere.

 

Neil

Everyone's mileage always varies ...
R Neil Haugen
Legend
December 29, 2022

Woa ... didn't know you could map Program monitor resolution! That's awesome, gonna do that with my laptop certainly.

 

Q and W are my top used shorts for basic editing. Q cuts from the playhead to the beginning of the clip, ripples the timeline to the previous edit point to close the gap. W cuts from playhead to end of the clip, and again, ripples the rest of the timeline up to  that playhead location.

 

Transmit-Out I have set to Shift-C, so I can turn on my reference monitor when I want to, or turn it off when not needed.

 

As per Jarle's suggestions from his awesome and massive Premeire tome, The Cool Stuff in Premiere Pro” I also set the Timeline and Trim prefs so I can do ripple or rolling edits purely by cursor location over/near an edit point. So I don't even need a modifier key to change edit/trim type.

 

Neil

Everyone's mileage always varies ...