razor tool with snapping

[Kevin Monahan]

It won’t snap, but if you click anywhere near the playhead, it will splice in the right place. Give it a go.

I prefer to make add edits with keyboard shortcuts, though: target the track, then press CMD+K (Ctrl-K Windows).

More info: https://help.adobe.com/en_US/premierepro/cs/using/WS1c9bc5c2e465a58a91cf0b1038518aef7-7d03a.html

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[Ron Pestes]

Thanks Kevin, I will give it a try.

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[Ann Bens]

Put playhead where you want to cut, select the track the clip is in and hit Ctrl+K (add edit).
Ctrl+Shift+K to add edit to all tracks.

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[Jon Barrie]

Hi Ron,

If you want the razor to have a bit more of a “stickiness” to the playhead position a trick I use is to zoom the timeline out a bit.

But yeah, there is no way to see that the tool is in sticky/snap mode like with FCP.

Good Luck and welcome to the Premiere Pro Family.

– JB

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[Ron Pestes]

Thanks guys for all your help. Much appreciated.

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[Mark Maness]

I’m an FCP 7 convert moving to Premiere Pro because its more like what we’ve been using EXCEPT the razor tool. What good is the razor tool if we cannot snap to the CTI? I don’t understand who would want to use the razor tool without snapping to it. Who cuts at random? Just my two cents…

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[Ross Haines]

Couldn’t agree more with Wayne on this. You can fly through footage in FCP and grab pieces you want with the razor tool. It’s not for every project, but when I need to fly through lot’s of footage and pull a couple things it’s great.

The razor tool in Premiere is useless if it can’t snap.

How do we get Adobe to change this?

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[Eric Merklein]

When I park at a point in my time like, is there a way to make a cut or splice without using the razor tool? I’m trying to cut down on key strokes.

In Avid I just park at a point in the middle of a segment, hit one key and the segment is cut in half. Then I can lift that half out of my time line.

Thanks much