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Trouble switching from FCP to PPro: Jumping around timeline
Hi, all!
I’ve recently been granted a new machine with Premiere Pro on it to replace a Mac with Final Cut Pro. I’ve succesfully remapped my keyboard, including mapping the “go to previous edit” shortcut to the up arrow.
Problem is, it doesn’t work!
In Final Cut if I hit the up arrow, my timeline marker would jump to the closest edit point to the left. Down arrow would take the timeline marker to the nearest edit to the right. In PPro, the timeline marker doesn’t move from it’s current location even though my view of the timeline changes.
Can someone PLEASE tell me how to make the timeline marker jump to edit points? I rely on this for my editing style and prefer not to relearn EVERYTHING.
Help?!
Tim Boknecht
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8 Replies
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There is a FCP keyboard layout pre designed in PP CS3 and CS4. It may not work 100% correct by defualt.
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The function is there and will respond the same as FCP, the shortcut is different however. PgUp and PgDn.
– Jon 😉Jon Barrie
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Actually, I remapped the page up and page down to the up arrow and down arrow, but the function doesn’t operate as in FCP. As I said, it moves the timeline around, but doesn’t move the actual timeline MARKER to the edit point.
Tim Boknecht
Promo Writer/Producer
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I know this doesn’t help you much, but I’ve worked with both FCP and Premiere, and I gotta tell ya, Premiere’s workflow is so much nicer to work with. If I were you, I would go ahead and relearn a few things, because the two programs operate VERY differently, and I’d say Premiere wins, hands down, in terms of editting efficiency. For starters, editing to audio is just so much simpler in Premiere because the waveform is displayed right on the timeline (last version of FCP I used doesn’t have this). Also, LEARN TO USE THE ZOOM BAR! That’s the little bar with handles above the timeline, unlike FCP, it automatically zooms in on your playback head, which is wonderful. FCPs works like AfterEffects, where you have to move the handles individually around your editing point, which is a pain. Probably the best, feature, however, is that the edit windows all have their own zoom and scroll bars, so if you have 20minutes of video, and want to work with just 5 seconds, you can just look at that little area.
I’m a huge Apple fan, been one all my life. I have a Mac Pro at home, an iPod, an iPhone… I cut my teeth programming hypercard back in the day. But when it came time to buy my own video editing suite, though, I chose Premiere Pro. It’s not perfect, the titler’s a bit buggy at times, and some of the audio effects are pretty shoddy (worst reverb ever!), but for a basic editor, either for 30sec commercial spots or 30minute TV shows, Premiere is just much faster and more intuitive.
So do yourself a favor… try to learn PREMIERE first, instead of trying to turn it into FCP, because you’ll just fall falt on your face. Keyboard shortcuts, I can understand remapping (I personally, don’t understand why “n” is snap on FCP, “s” makes more sense), but for basic workflow, you’ll save yourself a LOT of time by not trying to fight it.
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Heya…
the PG/UP and Down keys should behave as you describe actually moving the playhead to each edit.
That’s what it does on my box…
Try going back to the premiere default keyboard layout and see if PG up and Down behave as described….
It sounds as if maybe you didn’t map the right function in your remapping…
that’s my best guess anyway…
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Eric,
One of my friends download the PP CS4 demo on his Mac Pro. There was not as many fonts or as many transition as my full PC version. I hope it was just the demo version that lacks these features. While the titler was not as robust on the Mac trial version as on the full PC version he did admit it blew away the titling tool of FCP. He thought the trim editor and most other features we indeed much better than what FCP had to offer. You are alo right about the audio . It is easy to make any track stereo, mono or 5.1 surround sound. Sound Booth can also help kicks some ass when editing audio.
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Thanks, Alex.
I ended up returning just those two particular functions to the original shortcuts and it works fine now. One difference with FCP, though: You have to have the track actually SELECTED to get the playhead to move to the previous/next edit point. In FCP, the marker will move to any edit point as long as the track is on. I miss that.
Tim Boknecht
Promo Writer/Producer
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More than 5 years after the fact, but I’m just now making the switch from FCP7 to Premiere Pro CC and came across this thread. Had the issue where up/down only jumps to the next edit on V1 instead of any track like it did in FCP7. Found that there is already built in a shortcut in which shift+up or shift+down acts like the old FCP7 shortcut. I remapped up and down to “Jump to next (previous) edit on any track” to my up and down and it works like a charm.
Just posting in case any other newbies like me are making the switch.
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