keyboard shortcut to cycle between sequence tabs

[Todd Kopriva]

No. You can submit a feature request here.

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[Jon Barrie]

Yes. I too would like to see such a shortcut added as I tend to work off multiple sequences for “building” an edit.

I feel your pain. 🙂

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[Jon Barrie]

I just remembered there is a feature to multi-stack the panels or two or more timelines that way you can simply move the mouse into the other timeline and grab what you need and simply work with a top/bottom workflow.

such as:

– JB

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[Reuben Fink]

thanks for the workaround idea. It seems very strange to me to consider this an actual feature. Something that you would have to upgrade your version in order to get. I know a lot of people may not ever care about this functionality but I do about 90% of my editing on keyboard only. I have massive amounts of footage that I usually have to sift through so when I’m culling through it and picking selects no time is wasted when I need to cut and past to a separate selects timeline. Nothing worse then having to reach over to the mouse over 100 times in 1 session. No offense to Adobe I love their products, I use photoshop and after effects daily and have recently been exploring Premiere, but when you’re trying to win people over from say FCP you need to offer at least the same basic functionality. I can understand a different name, location, hotkey etc. but to just not be capable of something so simple. It seems silly.

But alas I will put the feature request in.

OSX 10.6.4
Equipment: 2.8 ghz 8 core Intal Mac Pro, 20 gig of ram
Aps: CS5 Production Bundle, FCP Suite 2, Avid Media Composer

[Reuben Fink]

OK I found a FIX. I had to do a little digging but there’s a unmapped command under windows>timeline which if you map it to a key it will cycle to the right. You can’t go to the left but I’ll take what I can get. So as long as you only have 2 timelines open then it should work fine. Another way is to split it into two viewable panels as you described then it will jump back and forth between both even if you have other sequences open, as long as the sequences were opened one right after the other. You’ll have to play with it to see where it’s limited. For some reason if you map a hotkey to window>program monitor it behaves similar cycling through the tabs but if you split a window then this command will not get you to that tab. So keep in mind though that when using this command it will activate the timeline tabs in the order that they were opened. So If you have say 4 sequence tabs open and you rearrange their order then you will jump tabs. But then again maybe there’s a secret fix for this.

OSX 10.6.4
Equipment: 2.8 ghz 8 core Intal Mac Pro, 20 gig of ram
Aps: CS5 Production Bundle, FCP Suite 2, Avid Media Composer

[Kevin Monahan]

This shortcut actually exists and you can find it here on this page in Help: https://help.adobe.com/en_US/premierepro/cs/using/WS1c9bc5c2e465a58a91cf0b1038518aef7-7c2ea.html

For the same behavior in cycling through panels like you do in FCP, look for the commands:
Activate panels in rotation to left: Ctrl+Shift+< (Windows), Command+Shift+< (Mac OS)
Activate panels in rotation to right: Ctrl+Shift+> (Windows), Command+Shift+> (Mac OS)

You may find it faster to go directly to a panel. These are a must to memorize:
Audio Mixer panel: Shift+6
Effect Controls panel: Shift+5
Effects panel: Shift+7
Source Monitor panel: Shift+2
Program Monitor panel: Shift+4
Project panel: Shift+1
Timeline panel: Shift+3

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[Kevin Monahan]

I’m glad you found a workaround.

I see now you wish to cycle between tabs within panels and not different panels. The shortcut I gave you above is for cycling different panels. My apologies.

As my colleague suggests, please make a feature request for this: https://www.adobe.com/go/wish
I’d love to see it in Premiere Pro, as well!

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[Kevin Monahan]

I just talked to engineering and we are actually able to cycle through tabs: Type the shortcut for opening/focusing the panel multiple times (Shift+2 or Shift+3) and focus will cycle through the open sequences. This also works for other panels like the source monitor when you have multiple clips in its Most Recently Used list.

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[Glenn Hughes]

This is a pretty important feature for Pros as most of us like to edit without touching the mouse and this is a really commonly-used task: cutting from one timeline and pasting to another. In PP it can be done like this:

1. Set in point: i
2. Set out point: o
3. Lift (ripple cut): ‘
4. Navigate to other open sequence: GOTCHA! (shift-3)
5. Navigate to insert point: Page up/down
6. Insert: Comm-shift-v

That looks like a lot of steps instead of using a mouse but once you get the hang of it it can be done REALLY quickly. Unfortunately cycling through the open timelines by tapping shift-3 mutliple times is NOWHERE near as efficient as the FCP version of comm-shift-{ or }. The weird thing is that cycling through the timelines seems to go in reverse alphabetical order, NOT left to right or visa versa! Try it.

This is one command that I am REALLY missing.

[James Fleming]

Thanks so much Glenn and Reuben. I was having the same difficulty and I was tearing my hair out trying to switch to Premiere from Final Cut. I just haven’t been able to edit anywhere nearly as quickly because I’m forced to use the mouse all the time. The next challenge (feature request please Adobe?) is to be able to program multiple keys to do the same thing as you can in Final cut. [The shortcut preferences window needs some serious rethinking adobe]. For example, I have programmed a sequence of shortcuts similar to Glen’s above into the keys ‘2,3,4,5,6’ in FCP 7. This means in FCP I can just hit those keys in a row and it takes the footage I’ve selected between my in and out points, copies it, changes to the next tab (sequence) pastes it and then flilps back to the the tab/timeline/sequence I was working in. This means I can watch through the rushes and build a sequence of selects almost in real time!

Ideally, I would be be able to program that sequence into one key and Bang! Final Cut would run the whole sequence. I tried doing that in FCP using Automator but Automator is too slow – it took about 6 seconds to execute it. As a hot key sequence, it takes half a second.

Now try doing this in Premiere… The first hurdle is that to program a sequence like that means you lose any other short cut keys because (idiotically) Premiere only allows you to program one key to each action so in the above sequence ‘paste’ or ‘insert’ would always be say ‘4’ and you’ve lost your normal hot key. Ideally it could be both, as in FCP. The next problem is that programming a sequence often means you need to do the same action twice. In my sequence ‘4’ and ‘6’ are both ‘go to next tab’. Premiere can’t do this so the best I could come up with was ‘2’, ‘3’, ‘4’ ‘5’ ‘4’ which is not as quick for the hand to execute. The aim here is to avoid the mouse and to automate mechanical tasks as much as possible. I’m going to look into scripting this stuff. FCP isn’t scriptable. Has anyone had any luck scripting Premiere? Someone here on Creative Cow suggested Video Toolshed’s Video Macro but if it’s macro/automator based it would be too slow for this kind of task as automator takes several seconds to execute. Scripts should be instant. Cracking this is really important. Using sequences I can now cut a short doco or promo in 3 hours that used to take more than a day, not to mention the fact it has eliminated repetitive, boring, injury inducing actions and made my work more intuitive, direct and creative. Come on Adobe, lift your game! Get this and other simple FCP 7 functions right and pro editors will come flocking over as we all know FCPX sucks ass.