Keyboard shortcut for adding a key frame in Premiere Pro CS5

[Vince Becquiot]

Hi Cindy,

[Cindy Weller] “I’m looking for a keyboard shortcut to add a fade up/out keyframe on my timeline. I know I can go to the add-remove keyframe button and then back to the time line move it and then add another keyframe. But it takes a lot of mouse movement to go back and forth. Is there a keyboard shortcut.”

Select the end of the clip and make sure the layer is also selected, then hit Ctrl+D, (This applies the default transition which is crossfade). You can change the default transition in preference.

[Cindy Weller] “Also, is there a master fade to black button that can be used on the top video layer that would fade to black all the layers below?”

You could use Dip to Black, set the effect to end at 50%.

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Bent Myggen]

I’m on a Mac, but since Adobe took away the nifty way to insert keyframe markers, I’ve lamented the movement needed to do this.

I found a way to do it. Set up your keyboard preferences in “tools” for “pen-tool” to something simple like “q” – (the regular grabber is “v” so you can always go back.

Then – as you work – hit “q” (now your cursor is pen-tool, and place you mouse where you want the keyframe. Hold down the Mac-key (try something else on PC) and you can now click to make a keyframe marker on the timeline.

[Bent Myggen]

I’m on a Mac, but there’s an easy way to do it:

Select either the regular pointer or the pen-tool.

Place you mouse where you want the keyframe. Hold down the Mac-key (Cntr on PC) and you can now click to make a keyframe marker.

Yah.

[Richard Misener]

Press p then as u click on the yellow line in the sequence editor hold ctrl