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Keyboard only editing in Premiere (or other fast editing method)
Hi, I was forced to switch from FCP to Premiere recently, and I found I’m so slooow in Premiere, so I beg you for advice.
In FCP, I used keyboard only for basic rough editing, which was really fast, my workflow was: Cmd+4 to load browser, Enter to load clip into Viewer, Shift+Right/Left Arrow to scrub thru the clip (+/-1s), I and O to mark In Out, F9 to insert into timeline. In the timeline, Ctrl+V to do a cut, V and [] to trim the clips/, X to select the clip, or back to the viewer with Cmd+1.
Can anyone who knows Premiere well help me with the shortcuts for this workflow, or suggest a better one? What I miss most is the Shift+Arrow Keys to move 1 second forward or backward – a lot of footage I get are 45 minutes clips, and navigating with mouse is pain…
Thanks for help.
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Remap your keyboard or use the FCP keyboard settings with Premiere for a lot of these. To select clips in the browser and load them into your source monitor and shuffle through them quickly, read this:
Most of Premiere’s operations aren’t mapped by default, and they’re in weird places when you try to find where to map them.
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Michael Hancock
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Thanks for the link, there’s a solution for loading the clip into Source Monitor, but I didn’t find a way to scrub thru the clip with keyboard shortcuts, the same way I do with Shift+Left/Right Arrow in FCP. Any idea how to do this?
Thanks!
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Premiere Pro doesn’t have a keyboard shortcut for skipping forward or backward by 1 second. Only frame by frame or +/- 5 frames. Personally, I rarely used that shortcut when I was on FCP7 and prior. Only when clients said something like, “Skip forward 5 seconds,” or something. Instead, I use JKL for scrubbing around clips.
If you would like to have the +/- 1 second keyboard shortcut, make a request: https://www.adobe.com/go/wish
Kevin Monahan
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Adobe After Effects
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Adobe Systems, Inc.
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