FCP 7 key commands in Premiere

[Peter Garaway]

[Arturo Glass] ” I hit SHIFT+X it deletes the selected clip and shifts all the footage back to fill the gap. In Premiere, how do I do this?”

This one is called ‘Ripple Delete’ Option+Delete

[Arturo Glass] “what’s the Premiere equivalent of OPTION+down arrow? That is, how do I shift elements up or down along the available tracks?”

This is called ‘Nudge Clip selection Up/Down. This one is not assigned by default in the FCP KB commands, but its Option+UP/Option+Down in Premiere Pro KB commands. That keyboard command is available in FCP KB commands.

[Arturo Glass] “If I cut clips that are on audio and video tracks 2, when I go to paste them they revert back to track 1. How can I make them retain the same tracks when pasting?”

https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/source-patching-track-targetting.html

Best,

Peter Garaway
Adobe
Premiere Pro

[Arturo Glass]

Thanks Peter. I’m really trying to like Premiere but getting over the hurdles of being an FCP user for years.

One more question you may be able to help with. Are there ways of speeding up the launch of the program on OSX? It seems to take a lot of time to load

[Peter Garaway]

The launch time will vary per system but theres ways to optimizer this process. Do a search and lots of suggestions will come up. But here’s the general rule.

OS and Programs on 1 drive and everything else on another or split between multiple. Something like:

1: OS/Programs
2: Projects
3: Scratch
4: Media
5: Exports

Hope this is helpful.

Peter Garaway
Adobe
Premiere Pro

[Arturo Glass]

Thanks for that. Very helpful.

One last question – in FCP when I have two clips and want them to lay flush against each other, one way I do that is select the second clip and hit the MINUS key and a numerical value. If it’s more than the space between clips, it leaves them flush against each other. I tried this with Premiere and it overlapped them. Is there a way to make one clip stop the other from moving further?

[Kevin Monahan]

Hi Arturo,
Here is just one of the ways Premiere Pro and FCP differ. However, I never adjoined clips the way you described in Premiere Pro or FCP.

Personally, I think it is much easier to do one of the following: