Select region in the timeline

[avi12641]

I used to work with Sony Vegas Pro in the past, but switched to Adobe Premiere Pro CC.

My question is, how do I select a region in the timeline with my keyboard, then hit a single key to delete what I selected?

In Vegas Pro, I'd simply mark the wanted region using either the mouse (click-dragging) or the keyboard (Shift-Left/Right), then delete with the Delete key.

Thanks!

[R Neil Haugen]

Well, for a bunch of clips ... just 'lasso' them with a bounding box with the mouse, then Backspace key to cut them. Cmd/Ctrl-X is the basic "cut" command short.

Neil

[avi12641]

The problem is that it'll select the whole clip. I want to select just a small portion of it, then delete it easily.

Right now, the only way to do this is to actually go to each of the points I want to cut, select both the video & audio and press Ctrl+K - a bit long process.

Simply selecting with the mouse, then readjusting with the keyboard would be much faster and simply deleting would be way​ faster.

[Averdahl]

The problem is that it'll select the whole clip. I want to select just a small portion of it, then delete it easily.

Set an In Point, set an Out Pont and use the Extract or the Lift command. All can be done with keyboard shortcuts. This will delete the portion of the clip you selected. Extract will do a ripple delete and Lift will just remove the video/audio.

[avi12641]

Thanks! That's what I was looking for!

I have another question: In the keyframes window (that appears when selecting an audio track or a video clip and then going to the Effect Control panel) - is there a way to zoom in and out using a keyboard shortcut?

Also, if I attempt to zoom in & out using the scrollbar, it'll zoom to the center, which really confuses me because I have to drag the timeline marker and search where I put the keyframes. Is there a way, when zooming in & out - to zoom to the side that I drag, instead of zooming to the center?

[Averdahl]

is there a way to zoom in and out using a keyboard shortcut?

Yes, use the keyboard shortcuts for Zoom In and Zoom Out. (+ and - on my keyboard.)

Is there a way, when zooming in & out - to zoom to the side that I drag, instead of zooming to the center?

AFAIK, no there is not. But, you can use the small arrows on the attached image to "Go to Previous Keyframe" and "Go to Next Keyframe" to easily find the keyframes.

For some odd reason there are no keyboard shortcut for those two commands in Premiere Pro. That´s very frustrating if you use After Effects and are used to use keyboard commands for navigating through keyframes.

[avi12641]

I need to move the time indicator one frame at a time because there are times there I need to make a quick, unnoticeable transition, in which case the only way to make stuff easier is to use the "global" timeline, in which I can simply press ← or →  and make the timing perfect.

[Nexahs1138]

To delete something you can use the cut tool to select two points and then select that and press the delete key.

[SinaNJ]

I want to set the In&Out just by dragging the mouse cursour around an area of a clip, then do the Extract.
Is there any method or I should ask for a feature request?
Thanks.

[Averdahl]

I want to set the In&Out just by dragging the mouse cursour around an area of a clip, then do the Extract.
Is there any method or I should ask for a feature request?

By @SinaNJ

AFAIK there is no way to use the mouse to select an in/out point.

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