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Is there no universal directional trim?
Hello,
I’m going through the keyboard shortcuts and tools noticing there’s a different command set for everything. in FCP and Avid, trimming involves 4 hotkeys that control nudge, roll, slide, and slip by context. Is this not the case in Premiere? It appears that I have to make a different hotkey for each separate task, which would make it a pain from the keyboard. Is there a set of hotkeys that will control them all in contexts?
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You can build you’re own hotkey map if you don’t have one that meets your needs.
It’s all in what you’re accustomed to I suppose… ripple/roll edit and slip/slide are on four keys B-N and Y-U.
The mouse is modal with the default tool…over an edit it’s regular trim unless you use the Ctrl key and you then have a rolling edit or a ripple trim depending on how far from the cut you hover..
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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So only the mouse is modal huh? I was in the middle of building a custom set of hotkeys actually which is what prompted the question. I appreciate your help. Seems like you have to set 4x the number of hotkeys to trim from the keyboard. I was hoping the trim tools were more keyboard centric.
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Yeah…Adobe ran out of keymaps in PPro some time ago…moving ripple/roll and slip/slide to the same key, toggled with a Ctrl or Alt (Cmd or Opt) modifier would probably free some keys up.
Personally, I’ve submitted feature requests to have some of these functions be modal against the select tool…release the modifier and back to the select tool…but again, that would only be modal against the mouse.
Adobe has been working rather feverishly over the last 4 versions to evolve Premiere Pro to a point where FCP and Avid users find it easier to adapt to…but Adobe Premiere has been around as long as Avid and it came from a -totally- different place. FCP came along later and basically had Avid in its sights, so the Avid to FCP migration was an easier changeover than the switch to Premiere Pro has been for the same user base.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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BUMP.
I’m with David here. This is one of the things that’s making Premiere really painful for me. Is there still no way to get universal motion keys that respect the current mode? On a similar note, still no cycle-through-modes (like r, rr for foll, ripple or t, tt, ttt, tttt for single, multiple track selection forward and backward)? This is so much easier to remember than Premiere’s multiple modifiers for each such command. It also leaves more keyboard realestate available – and would make the transition easier for both FCP7 and Avid editors.——
Joe Shapiro
Director / Producer / Editor
206-420-6411imdb.com/name/nm1497731/
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Hi Joe,
Sorry, still no way to cycle-through-modes as you described. I’d recommend filing a feature request here:
https://www.adobe.com/products/wishform.html
In our upcoming release we’ve added a new Visual Keyboard Layout along with some additional functionality. See more info here:
https://www.provideocoalition.com/adobe-premiere-pro-IBC-2016-reveal/
Best,
Peter Garaway
Adobe
Premiere Pro
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