how to make a cut at current playhead location

[Craig Howard]

CTRL-K = Razor at CTI Position

Note Keyboard shortcuts are listed in the menu under customisation.

Craig Howard
Shooter Film Company
Auckland
New Zealand

(Premiere Pro 1.5 / Matrox TRX100 XTreme Pro)

[Mbelli]

Beware that CTRL-K cuts everything, not just your selected clip but all the clips underneath it. Wish it would just cut the clip selected.

[Josh Weiss]

Does anyone know how to do this without cutting all tracks as mentioned in the previous post (and without using the razor tool)

[Hector Melendez]

Control K if you never change in customization. To un-cut underneath tracks, the only way I have found is locking the tracks. (look at a lock icon at extreme left of the timeline.
Remember you can custom-built the keyboard the better suit your workflow
Mine is: Z to make cuts, X to riple delete,C page down, D default video transition, Control D default audio xsition With left hand I can control this commands while with right move the mouse. Fast way to me!

[Victoria Ellis]

If you wanted to cut a section out of the footage, instead of razoring in two places and then deleting the footage and closing the gap, put in and out points (using I and O keys) and then to ripple delete out press the ‘ key (middle row, second one in from the enter, but depending on keyboard customisation it might be the one directly next to the enter on the middle row).

If you just want to lift the section out, do the in and out points and press the ; key (third one in from the enter on the middle row).

If there are multiple layers, it will just do the edit to the selected video and audio tracks, and not the other tracks.

Hope this helps.
Victoria

[David Goodwin]

Thanks, I had the same query so found this via Google.

[Trig Simon]

I find the Shuttle Pro 2 as a handy tool. Makes shortcuts very simple. Your fingers do all the work without lifting your hand.

Trig Simon
Video Images by Trig
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Toledo OH 43605
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[Werner Botha]

To select which tracks will be cut using Ctrl+K activate track targeting for the selected tracks. To do this click on the track name next to the lock icon for the specific tracks you want to cut.

[Yonatan Lehman]

In version 2015.4 (maybe before – I don’t know)
ctrl k cuts with no selected clip cuts all the enabled tracks
ctrl k with an enabled clip cuts only the enabled clip
ctrl shift K cuts all unlocked tracks – both enabled and disabled

[Acachia Schoniwitz]

Simply lock the layers you don’t want to be affected by the cut. It’s the lock icon, and locked layers will be grayed out with diagonal lines across them. ☺ Similar to Photoshop.