• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Scratching my head

  Posted by Dan Dorsey on June 27, 2013 at 8:23 pm

  Greetings all –

  I am a long-time Avid user who is now using and enjoying a lot of what Premiere Pro has to offer. I am a keyboard guy, and had my Avid keyboard dialed in and mapped for full efficiency. I’ve got Premiere dialed in for the most part, but there are still some critical commands that I cant quite figure out.

  Zooming to the playhead! In Avid I had the the keyboard mapped to zoom in/out to wherever the playhead was sitting on my timeline. I used it constantly. I’ve got a ramshackle way of zooming in and out of the entire sequence in Premiere – but i want to zoom to the playhead!

  Selecting/deselecting tracks. I’m not talking about selecting/deselecting the clips I have highlighted in the timeline (ctrl-shift-D) – I’m talking about selecting/deselecting the V1, V2, A1, A2, to the left of the clips in the timeline.

  Thanks,
  Dan

  Dan Dorsey replied 12 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Peter Garaway

  June 27, 2013 at 9:22 pm

  Hi Dan,

  For targeting Video and Audio tracks do a search in the Keyboard shortcuts dialog for Toggle Target.

  Zooming to playhead (or as we call it CTI;)) I’m not sure if this is exactly what your after but in Premiere Pro using the = key always zooms in over the playhead.

  Hope this is helpful.

  Peter Garaway
  Adobe
  Premiere Pro
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  Gerald Goldman

  June 27, 2013 at 9:28 pm

  Timeline ZOOM defaults to zooming to the playhead, so if you map the ZOOM IN/OUT commands, I think it will accomplish what you are looking to do.

  In CC you can map track selectors to the keyboard. I always have to use the search in the Keyboard Shortcuts interface to find what I’m looking for. Some functions in Premiere have unhelpful names.

  Hope this helps.

  Gerald Goldman
  Director of Post Production
  Grace Creek Media
  http://www.gracecreek.com
  http://www.sportskool.com
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  Dan Dorsey

  July 2, 2013 at 8:12 pm

  Thanks all –

  Apparently I was doing something wrong, or Premiere just really didn’t want Page Up/Page Down to be the Zoom In/Zoom Out keys. I changed it to the up and down arrow and it started working immediately. Weird. That will save me scads of time.

  On the topic of selecting tracks, the Toggle Target did work, although I’m not completely satisfied. It seems as though you can turn on/off all of the video tracks at once OR all of the audio tracks – but not not all video and audio tracks simultaneously with one keystroke.

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