Tag Archives: Premiere Pro
Top 10 Less Known Keyboard Shortcuts for Premiere Pro CC 2014
There are obvious shortcuts that everyone needs to know, like how to use the arrow tool or the blade tool, and then there are shortcuts that are a little less obvious. Those are the shortcuts that I’m hoping to go over in this video. Chances are if you are seasoned in Premiere, you know some of these, but hopefully I can shed some light on some that you didn’t know, including some custom keyboard shortcuts that I set up.
The shortcuts I go through:
The Bonus Keyboard Shortcut:
Keyboard Shortcut Dialogue
Opt+Cmd+k
- Ripple Trim Previous / Next Edit to Playhead
Q / W - Slip / Move / Trim with Keyboard
Cmd+ Opt ← → / Cmd ← → & Opt+↑ ↓ / Opt+ ← → - Panel Windows
Shift+1 = Project Panel
Shift+2 = Source Monitor cycles through open clips
Shift+3 = Timeline Panel cycles through open sequences
Shift+5 = Effects Control
Shift+8 = Media Browser - Trim Edit/Toggle Trim Types
t/ Cntrl+t - Nudge Audio Volume Down & Up
[ & ] - Select Next & Previous Clip
Cmd ↑ ↓ - Replace Clip Match Frame
Opt+Shift+DragCustom Shortcuts
- Show Video / Audio Keyframes
Cntl+k / Cntl+Shift+k - Delete Tracks
Cntl+Opt+Cmd+Delete - Set to Frame Size
Opt+Cmd+F
New Features in Premiere Pro CC 7.0.1 Update!
Well, it seems Adobe has kept their promise to use the new Creative Cloud platform to deliver a whole slew of new features. Now I don’t just mean bug updates as we had seen in the past with the Creative Suite, I mean upwards of 25 new features. In this video we go through the biggest changes to Premiere Pro CC and what you should know and expect from these new features.
And yes, I don’t talk about in this video and I haven’t tested it myself, but there is a fix in this update for the horrible Multicam bug that a lot of users were experiencing!
Check out the video as these really are some big new features.
For a full list of features visit this link.
Working Around a Premiere Pro CC Bug to Sort in Icon View
So, if you are like me, you were really excited that Premiere Pro CC got the much needed ability to sort in Icon View. There are a number of predefined methods you can sort by, and you can even create a custom sorting order by using metadata in list view and choosing the “List View Sort”. For more info on these great new features, see this article.
However, the big disappointment is that as of right now, these custom sort methods don’t actually work in List View or Icon View. Meaning, you can click on the column header to sort, but it just won’t take! You can see this issue in the video linked to above. Now, this post isn’t intended to bash the engineers at Adobe, hopefully they are hard at work on the solution as we speak. It is merely intended to give you guys a potential work around.
For me the issue was that I wanted to be able to sort in Date Created order. I had a number of cameras that name their files differently, shoot to different formats and frame rates, and don’t shoot any meaningful timecode. If I merely sorted by Name, it would sort each camera in Date Created order, but all 3 cameras would be separated from each other. I wanted to see all 3 of the cameras placed in the right order and mixed in with each other.
I decided that my only solution needed to happen before I ever took my clips into Premiere Pro. I opened up Bridge CC, made sure to sort my folder of videos by Date Created, and simply evoked the Tools-Batch Rename option. There, I set up a few custom rules to basically keep my original file names while adding a 3 digit sequential numbering to the front of my file name.
Now, when I load my clips back into Premiere I can simply sort by Name and know that my clips are in the right order. I should warn that this project is a single person type of operation, so if you are sharing clips with others and need to make sure you have the same file names this would not be the way to go. This is a distructive process (unless perhaps you save the originals in metadata and find a way to go back), so please use caution when using this workaround yourself.
To make sure Adobe knows about this bug and sees there is demand to fix it, file a bug report by clicking here.
Switcher’s Guide – Premiere Pro Speed Changes & Freeze Frames
In this video we discuss the numerous similarities and differences between speed changes and freeze frames in Premiere Pro and FCP7.
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