Using shortcut keys for editing in Adobe Premiere Pro is useful for an efficient workflow. Let’s take a look at some of the ways you could use shortcuts to speed up your workflow.

The top keys I frequent most are V for the Move Tool and C for the Razor Tool. I also use Ctrl for making Ripple Edits all the time.

Ripple Edits

To temporarily toggle the Ripple Edit tool for trimming down a video, make sure you have the Move Tool active and hold Ctrl (Windows) or Cmd (Mac). The cursor will turn yellow letting you know it’s active. Once you trim the video clip, it will automatically fill in the gap without you having to readjust the video. Once you let go of Ctrl or Cmd, the cursor will turn back to the normal Move Tool (red).

For an even faster method, move the Playhead over the area you want to cut and press Q. This will trim the clip up to the Playhead and ripple delete the rest.

For trimming the end of a clip or everything after the Playhead, press W. This shortcut affects all tracks.

Note: If you’re trying to ripple edit footage and it won’t budge, check for grouped clips, audio tracks, or other video clips that are stuck. Re-adjust those clips or lock the tracks you don’t want affected by the ripple edit.

Cuts

To make a cut, simply press C and click wherever you want the cut to take place. If you want the cut to affect all tracks, hold Shift and all the tracks will be affected.

For more precise edits, move the Playhead over to the cut point and press Ctrl (Windows) or Cmd (Mac) + K to make a cut.

Press Ctrl (Windows) or Cmd (Mac) + Shift + K to affect all tracks.

Deleting Clips

When you press Delete, it will simply delete the clip but leave a gap. Press Shift + Delete and the track will ripple delete closing in the gap.

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Ever want to display your video in full screen? Coming from Sony Vegas, I remember there was a button on the preview window for viewing full screen. Click that, and the preview window would enlarge. Adobe Premiere Pro also enables this ability and can be done with a simple shortcut key.

To view the preview full screen:

The ` (Accent key) is typically located above the Tab key or just left of the numerical 1 on the keyboard.

Use the Spacebar to play your video. Or you can also use the Shuttle Keys J (Shuttle Reverse), K (Shuttle Stop) and L (Shuttle Forward) to play your video.

Got a second monitor? Simply drag the Program monitor window to it and when you toggle full screen, it will display on that monitor. You can continue editing on your primary monitor with full screen enabled.

Mercury Transmit

You can also use Mercury Transmit to send video frames to external video devices. I personally found playback to be more choppy when trying this but it may work better for external video cards transmitting to a TV or monitor. It’s probably because all (3) of my monitors are on a single video card and I still had the Preview window open in Premiere. I’ll need to do more testing with this.

You can enable it from the Edit > Preferences > Playback… window. It gives you the option to choose what monitor(s) you’d like to use. There’s also an option to “Disable video output when in the background” which will stop transmitting a video preview when Premiere is minimized or not the foreground application.

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An alternative would be to hold Ctrl + Alt + Shift and click where you want to split the event. You can also hold Ctrl + Alt + Shift and drag over an event to split it at the point you click and trim it.

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