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Trimming and Cutting Tips for Adobe Premiere Pro

Robert Carreno — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 16:53:15 +0000

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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Full Screen Preview in Premiere Pro

Robert Carreno — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 20:35:43 +0000

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:

Windows	Mac
`Ctrl` + `	`Cmd` + `

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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Hide Files in the Project Panel of Adobe Premiere Pro

Robert Carreno — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 17:00:21 +0000

Adobe Premiere Pro allows you to hide files in the project panel, including bins. Now there are a variety of reasons you might want to use this. Especially if you have quite a few files you’re working with. Perhaps you want to focus on a specific set of assets. You can hide everything but those specific assets.

Or perhaps you’re sending a project off to another editor. You may not want to confuse them with extra video clips in the project panel that doesn’t pertain to their task.

Or maybe you’re working with a client over your shoulder. Hiding clips may be handy to keep them from asking to watch all the extra clips you have.

To hide files in the project panel:

Select all the files you want hidden
Right-click and choose Hide

To reveal hidden files in the project panel:

Right-click anywhere in the project panel and choose View Hidden
Click View Hidden again to re-hide those files.

Add a keyboard shortcut and you’ll be hiding clips in a flash.

Simply go to Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts and type “hid” in the search. Scroll down to Project Panel and from here you can add a shortcut for both the Hide function and the View Hidden function. Click to highlight the shortcut for the command you’d like to set a shortcut for and press in the shortcut keys you want to use. I went with Ctrl-H since it wasn’t currently used.

Now all you have to do is type in the assigned shortcut key(s) to View or Hide hidden files.

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Duplicate Clips in Adobe Premiere Pro

Robert Carreno — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 00:25:04 +0000

To quickly duplicate clips in premiere:

Press and hold down the Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac) key.
Select one or more clips in the timeline and drag them to a new location.
After dropping the clips, they are duplicated.

Clips can be dragged horizontally or vertically.

You can also duplicate just the video or audio portion depending on what you select.

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Sony Vegas: Override Snapping

Robert Carreno — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:34:09 +0000

Ever need to quickly override snapping while moving media in the Sony Vegas timeline? Simply hold down the Shift key while moving clips to temporarily disable snapping. If snapping’s already disabled and you’d like to quickly enable it, hold down the Shift key while moving clips to temporarily enable snapping. F8 is the shortcut key to completely enable/disable snapping.

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Sony Vegas: Solo Tracks

Robert Carreno — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 20:05:22 +0000

Soloing tracks or singling out tracks in Sony Vegas is easy. Click the exclamation point (Solo) button in the track header for a selected track you want to single out or Solo. That track will be the only one visible. You can also Solo additional tracks to single out a group of tracks. To remove a track from the solo group, click the Solo button again. If you have a group of tracks soloed, you can hold Ctrl while soloing an unsoloed track to remove all other tracks from the solo group. Hold Ctrl while clicking Solo on a Soloed track to reset all Solo buttons and return to normal. When you Solo multiple levels of parent and child tracks, the parent track and its compositing children will also be Soloed.

SOLO BUTTON

SOLO MULTIPLE TRACKS

CLICKING SOLO WHILE HOLDING CTRL SINGLES OUT TRACK

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Sony Vegas: Assign Track Names

Robert Carreno — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 05:06:04 +0000

Did you know you can assign names to tracks in Vegas Pro? Often overlooked, there’s a small area where you can input text on each track. Simply double-click this blank area called the Scribble Strip and type in any name for that track. Once done, press Enter to save the name. If you don’t see the Scribble Strip, simply expand the track to reveal it.

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Sony Vegas: Time Stretch

Robert Carreno — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 05:14:09 +0000

You can change the duration of an event without changing its contents. Simply hold “Ctrl” while dragging the right or left edge of an event. Stretching the event inwards will speed up the clip while stretching it outwards will slow it down. To preserve the audio while stretching, right click the audio clip and choose” Properties”. From there, you can adjust the audio’s Time stretch/pitch shift.

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Photoshop: Layers to Files

Robert Carreno — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 05:12:14 +0000

You can export and save layers as individual files in Photoshop. Simply navigate to File > Scripts > Export Layers to Files… You can set options to control the output type and generation of names as they are named automatically. After choosing the destination folder and applying all options, click Run.

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Better Manage Multiple Monitors

Robert Carreno — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:53:37 +0000

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