Hit Shift+1 to make sure the Project Panel is active. Shift+4: Program Monitor Selecting a Clip Shift+3: Timeline (hit multiple times to toggle through multiple open sequences) Think about the most basic workflow during the rough cut stage: Select a clip from the Project Panel, load it into the Source Monitor to add in and outs, add it to a sequence and see the output in the Program Monitor. Sometimes, things are just faster with the mouse. Obviously, Command (Mac) / Ctrl(Windows) + Iis your starting point, and depending on a few other variables, you can access all your folders and files with various combinations of modifier keys and arrow keys as well. Technically, you can access and use the Import window with the keyboard, but there are too many variations between OS versions and different file views to try and outline them all here. Let’s break it down into sections: Importing Here’s what we want to create (and suggestions for what shortcuts to use) Go to the Premiere Pro menu (Edit menu on Windows) and select Keyboard Shortcuts.
While you should read the whole thing through once, afterwards, reference this handy PDF for an ordered list of the shortcut workflow.įirst off, to do this properly, there’s one keyboard shortcut we should ADD that Premiere doesn't have by default. There are a lot of keyboard shortcuts scattered throughout this article.
I can’t say it’s always faster 100% of the time, and there are certain tasks that must be accomplished with the mouse, but in an early stage offline edit/rough cut, you can toss the mouse aside and select clips, in and outs, create sequences, overwrite and insert clips, trim and tweak timing, and more before you ever need to touch the little rodent. Well, some still are, but one thing that has changed has been my view on keyboard editing.
When I was a young editing whippersnapper (see, you can tell I’m older now because I used the word whippersnapper), I used to think that the editors I knew who relied heavily on the keyboard to edit were snobs.