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Participating Frequently
May 21, 2017
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HOTKEY - "Set in and out point for clip at Playhead"

  • May 21, 2017
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Hey all!

Been searching inside of Premiere's new hotkey keyboard panel and cannot find this shortcut anymore to save my life. Does anybody know if they failed to migrate it to their new keyboard type setup for hotkeys or changed the name?

I've found "Select Clip at playhead" but that only selects the clips, not set an in and out point over the entire clip. Did they change the name of this hotkey by chance?

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Correct answer Horshack

hehe, still not working within a brand new project and new footage.

It's quite a strange one. The command does not work within the timeline window at all which is frustrating. But the second I jump to the 'Program Monitor' and scrub the timeline from within that window, it allows the function to work properly. It's just very impractical to jump windows like that for editing.

I appreciate the help Horshack!


That's a good clue. Some shortcuts are specific to panels and can override non-panel specific shortcuts. This behavior is color-coded in Premiere's shortcut viewer. Perhaps you have defined a shortcut to be panel-specific or defined a conflicting shortcut that overrides your shortcut in the timeline window.

If all else fails you can try using a different shortcut preset (drop-down at top of shortcut viewer) and see if that works.

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Participant
December 6, 2018

What You're looking for is called. "MARK SELECTION" in keyboard shortcuts.

Participant
October 22, 2020

OMG Thank you!

Horshack
Legend
May 21, 2017

If I'm understanding you correctly, the shortcut is called "Mark In" and "Mark Out" is assigned to 'i' and 'o' by default.

Participating Frequently
May 21, 2017

Yeah, I have those shortcuts already mapped and used them often. The shortcut I am looking for however creates an in and an out point over the clip your playhead currently sits over top of.

Participating Frequently
May 21, 2017

Forward slash is "Mark Selection", which is the same as "Mark Clip" except it does it for the selected clip rather than the clip the playhead is over.

If I understand your workflow correctly it sounds like you have everything you need but for some reason the "Mark Clip" isn't working for you. Just to recount, you've moved the playhead on the timeline over the clip you're interested in. You press 'T' (your shortcut to "Mark Clip") but the in/out point in the timeline for the clip the playhead is over isn't being set to that clip?


That is 100% correct. I've used this method countless times without issues until I updated my Premiere last night.

I also tried "Mark Selection" to see if it would set an in and out point after I selected the clip, but that didn't work either.

I'm wondering if there is a master setting somewhere that is not allowing for me to set in/out points this way in my timeline window. Going to dig through some settings to see if anything is causing this, directly or indirectly.