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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 ...
Legend
December 30, 2022

Did some research on it and it hasn't been updated in quite a few years...  and some people have had problems with it.  Maybe Peru Bob can fill us in on his experience.  When I first added a windows machine to my setup, I played around with trying something like this so the keyboard shortcuts would be a better match with what I'd set up for Premiere on the Mac.  Just seemed a little too dangerous to me...  So, I tried finding a cloning solution for windows so if I screwed something up, it would be a simple process to restore my setup to it's previous state.  Never had much luck with that although gotta say I didn't spend a lot of time on it...  Did some googling etc and the options never seemed to work as "advertised."  If and when I decide to migrate completely to windows (unlikely since most of my clients that I provide support for are on the Mac), I'll dig in to it further...

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 ...