Avid editor working with Premiere… keyboard shortcuts?

[Ricky Barrow]

I Avid edited for 20 years, had sworn allegiance. I now use PPro and love it – my advice is learn and use the standard keyboard layout, adding F key functions as needed for quick access to recurring commands.

Ricky

[John Pale]

There is a Media Composer keyboard shortcut file for this, but as an Avid editor since the late 1990’s, I’d second the advice of using a Slightly tweaked standard Premiere set up.
Trying to make Premiere work like Avid is an exercise in frustration. You can try, but Premiere works better as itself than forcing it to imitate another NLE.

[John Heiser]

I’ve found any effort to fully translate one app’s keyboard shortcuts into another’s fraught with frustration. As an example, with Premiere Pro, some shortcuts function across the app, some only in a particular panel of the interface. Duplicating that in other apps or working around it when coming from other apps will be tricky.

If one jumps from one app to another while moving between clients/projects/facilities, it surely could be useful to have on a flash drive a keyboard shortcuts file for each app. You could probably “standardize” timeline/editing shortcuts to your own preference just to make that most basic part of editing more efficient for you as you move about, but as you branch out into other parts of the app, you’ll run into issues if you try to standardize.

John Heiser
Senior Editor
o2 ideas
Birmingham

[Nina Lucia]

Will it ‘break’ anything to move the Premiere shortcuts to other keys? Not sure what you mean by “some shortcuts function across the app, some only in a particular panel of the interface”.

I have a great Avid kb layout that I have set up and it makes editing so much faster and would love to make it work in Premiere as I’m going crazy right now cutting sooooooo slowly. Not only is the software not as good for editing imo (could be just because I’m used to Avid, but I think it’s really not as good because it’s very much the same as FCP which drove me cray-cray), but for me, the kb layout doesn’t make any sense. I’d like to map things to be like my Avid kb and just move the Premiere shortcuts that are in the places I want to use to the other places I ‘take’ things from.

Will that be a problem?

I mean, if I’m going to be using Premiere and Avid, I need the kb layout for my essential editing moves to be in the same place so my fingers know where to go without thinking about it. Also, in Premiere the things I need are spread out and not easily reached. The way I mapped my Avid kb I have everything handy and don’t need to move my left hand from its position on the kb except to hit those f keys for locators. Yes, locators. That’s what they are. They are NOT markers!!!