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Cutting – Ameteur Question
I’m trying to get more into Adobe Premiere, after having used Sony Vegas for several years. A lot of the projects I do involve cutting a very large video into much smaller pieces – making an hour-long talent show video into individual acts, or taking a home video from VHS converted to a digital video file into individual videos.
In Vegas, when I have the time bar set where I want to split, I just hit S on the keyboard to split it. In Premiere, I have to select the razor and click there. Is there a keyboard shortcut to split a video? I looked on the keyboard customization list but I didn’t see one
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I think it’s crtl+K
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That seems to be the Extract shortcut
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It used to be control+K but they removed that as a keystroke after ver 6.5. It’s actually referred to as “Razor at Current Time Indicator” or something very close to that and this command is in the SEQUENCE menu at the top of the application. In your customize keyboard settings look for the SEQUENCE section and drill down through it to find that command. Then click to the right of that command and hit your OWN keystroke! It will fill in for you and may tell you that it was in use by some other command but don’t worry, it will take whatever you give it.
Nate
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I changed the shortcut for that to C, which used to be the shortcut for bringing up the razor itself, but it doesn’t seem to be working. Or at least, I’m not using it properly. I select the clip in the timeline, move the red time indicator bar to about halfway through the clip, and hit C, but nothing happens. If I click the Razor button and then click on the clip, the clip splits into two. How can I get the C button to have that same effect without the use of the mouse?
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I think that may be a key that premiere won’t let you re-asign. I know! Maddening! I mean if it’s a customizable keyboard then it should be ummm… CUSTOMIZABLE! To whatever you want! But I digress. The short answer is try another key combination. How about shift+c or ctrl+c?
Nate
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Keep in mind that you can’t invent a function by assigning a hot key…
The Control K function is to cut all clips in the timeline at the position of the CTI.
I’ve never used a ‘cut selected clip at the point of the CTI’ function in Premiere…or Premiere Pro…I’m not sure I’ve ever seen one.
(Not that I’m saying it wouldn’t be a useful function to have…i just bounce back and forth between the razor and select tool…)
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions, -
Really? Maybe it’s because I’m used to a Vegas-type workflow but it seems like switching between them, even with keyboard shortcuts, makes trimming videos a slow process
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I think it’s a question of perspective…
You feel like pressing ‘C’ to get the razor and ‘V’ to get back to the select tool seems awkward…
On the other hand, I don’t have to select a clip to cut it…the razor cuts whatever it’s on top of…so I would find the act of having to click on the clip I want to split and having to position the CTI on the exact spot a bit of a bother…
It’s all based on what you’re accustomed to.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions, -
Hmmm, very interesting. Thanks for the help!
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I know this thread is old, but in case anyone else is looking for this function here’s how to do it:
On CS5.5 (it will likely work on other versions too), to razor at the cti location you press ctrl+k (you can change the shortcut on edit>keyboard shortcuts). It will razor all the SELECTED tracks. So if you’re splitting a long sequence and you only want to split, say, video 1 and audio 3, alll you gotta do is select only those two tracks at the track header section of the timeline (light gray is selected, dark gray is not selected). Hope this helps.
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