The shortcuts, you really need to
know the biggest step to start video editing at
an acceptable speed that can give you the confidence to
start taking pe projects is of course, shortcuts.
When you think of video editing,
a big skill that comes to mind is speed
when it comes to pros versus amateurs.
So let's get you editing fast.
What do we need to know?
We need to know shortcuts in general,
high edit my footage in
Premiere is specifically on the timeline.
You can add it two ways.
You can be editing here in the source window,
here in point around point and then drag it in.
Or in another case,
you can hit the Comma button
and that will insert it for you.
I prefer to not edit that way.
I would prefer to edit everything in the timeline.
So I'm going to select all of my footage,
throw it in the timeline.
Why do I do this one?
I think it's easier to use certain shortcuts
when you are in the timeline and you're editing,
I think it's really easy to get a flow going.
I also prefer to edit by the waveform,
which I will talk about a little bit later of basically,
as you can see,
we can see where
all the pauses are by when I stopped talking.
And if you're gonna be editing for a lot of YouTubers,
this is probably something that's
gonna be pretty common for you
because YouTube editors normally taught like this.
And the whole point is to be cutting out the dead air.
So being able to see
both the dead air and were
any mistakes could possibly be,
is gonna be really helpful for you cutting a lot faster.
Now of course, you can scroll left and right to play.
You can also hit the spacebar to play.
I preferred hit L on the keyboard to move forward.
And the more you hit L, the faster
you will go, which is very helpful.
K on the keyboard,
we'll stop that movement and j will movie backwards.
The more you hit J, of course,
the more you're going to speed up.
That is a key shortcut.
You've got to know it if you haven't already
learned that how I cut this footage in
the timeline is a really pivotal shortcut that's going
to make your editing process a heck of a lot faster.
And that is q and w.
We want to start right when the waveform starts,
we've got where our play head is going to be,
the marker and we're gonna hit
Q and it's going to cut up to the play head.
This is super helpful when you are moving very quickly,
you can hit a cut right there.
And you'll go to the
next piece and you're going to hit Q.
Same thing if you would like to go the opposite way.
Let's say we're going to cut out all
this and we're going to place a cup there.
We're gonna go to this end.
And we're going to hit W. And now everything has
just cut up to the play head on the other side.
This is probably my most used shortcut
when I'm editing my rough edit in the timeline.
And it's something that I definitely,
if I were you, I would learn to use.
It's also important since we're talking about that,
to know and understand that when
you are cutting with the q and the W tools,
it's cutting according to
which video track is highlighted.
Right now the video one track is highlighted.
And so when I'm trimming
off the beginning or end of a clip,
it is going to do it according
to the one which this video is in.
If I had this selected,
it could be a little bit different.
If I have v2 selected,
it's now looking at where's
the next video in the V2 track.
And when I hit W, for example,
it's going to shove all the video
up to the play head according to the V2 track,
which you of course do not want.
So we're going to hit v1 and we can
move according to the B1 track.
Another one of the most popular shortcuts
I use to edit very
quickly in Premiere is simply
hitting the a button on the keyboard,
which brings up these two little arrows.
You will then hit the mark that you would like to select.
And you'll see that everything to the right of
those arrows go Scott highlighted and
this would pertain to everything that
you have on the right and including multiple tracks,
everything's gonna get highlighted if
you needed to add something in,
this could be an easy way to
do that because then of course,
once everything is highlighted,
you can then shift it however way you want.
I use this a lot when I'm editing as I
normally need to add extra things in.
It just helps to move things out of the way so that I'm
not pasting things in and it's overlapping.
I just like to be able to clear everything out of the way
so that I can just have a clean area for a moment.
And then of course I can just hit the space
right here and hit Delete and that
will bring everything back.
Or if you didn't want to ripple delete,
you could just hit a again,
select everything and then just
drag it back to where you wanted to drag it.
Now, one tool that I don't use too often,
but I do like to use a lot
when it makes sense to me is the N tool.
It's already set up in Premier.
You don't need to set it if you hit N,
it will give you this tool.
This simply will adjust where your clip is being trimmed,
but it won't necessarily wall.
Just show you if I were to move this here.
You can see it's not moving.
Eclipse any particular way.
It is simply shifting where the cut is happening.
This can be super helpful if you do not
want to adjust the edit,
necessarily if you do not want to move anything,
but you just want to slightly
adjust where a cut is happening.
This is a super great,
easy tool for that,
and that is called the rolling edit tool.
Now, I wanted to share a tip that I made for myself.
I don't know if this will help you or not.
I just know that it helped me greatly
when I am moving quickly through an edit,
which of course is the ultimate goal is
to move as fast as possible.
The zoom in and out shortcut is the plus In minus on
the keyboard and that feature is
very far away from where my hand usually lives.
My hand usually lives
is on the left side of the keyboard,
near the Q and then W,
and lives near c and v where
the cut razor tool and the select V tool is.
I like to have my hand on the left side of the keyboard.
I prefer all of my heavy hitter shortcuts
to live on that side now,
I also have experience working
in Pro Tools and in Pro Tools.
These zoom in and zoom out buttons were r and t.
T zoomed you in and our zoom you out.
I taught myself that as T for tiny and
r was rural to R0 was like, Oh, everything.
I'm back now on big and faraway
versus Tiny was supposed to be closer.
I don't know if that's what I taught myself anyway,
of course, you do not have to do this,
but this was something that helped me
greatly and I stand by it
that a really helps because I'm usually zooming in,
zooming out all the time,
even while I'm in the middle of laying my YouTube video,
I'm zooming in to do any detailed cuts and I'm zooming
out while the video is
playing so that I can get a big picture.
Look at what I'm doing and what's coming out.
Take that with a grain assault.
Maybe R or T is another shortcut in your workflow.
If it wasn't anything, I couldn't easily
be replaced by something else.
So that worked for me and it helps me a lot.
So we'll leave it at that.
A couple of other small things is
the enable and disable tool,
as well as the link and unlink tool.
You can of course hit Command L
to link and unlink if it's not already in Premier,
I believe link is already set up
with Command L. That's a really helpful shortcut,
usually helps me in the way of that.
For me personally, something is going
to need enabled or disabled,
or maybe he just needs on link for some reason
those two things go hand in hand and importance.
So again, Command L will unlink footage.
So now if I'm linked and then
Command E disables or enables Eclipse,
I do not believe that command E is
something that is automatically enabled and disabled.
But again, of course,
I encourage you to
figure out what works for you in terms of shortcuts,
what shortcuts are important to you,
and then to find them in
the keyboard shortcut panel and then to
adjust them or create them as needed.
I did already mentioned
the command P that I set up for myself,
which reveals a clip in the project.
Again, super-helpful for if you have
a ton of footage and you need to
find maybe another clip that's
near a clip or you need to find a different,
take that super-helpful and
moving quickly through your edit.
And then the last thing I just want to talk about
is actually not quite a shortcut,
but it is more of a feature in the premier timeline
and that is utilizing the tracks to
your advantage right now of course we have the video and
audio enabled if for
some reason you couldn't drag video in,
that's probably why Same with audio.
These do need to be highlighted,
and normally the one is
highlighted as well as A1, A2, and A3.
So this can help you greatly if you
are looking to paste something
into an already created timeline without wanting to move
everything around with the
a toll-like I was mentioning before.
Say we have a piece of content like this shot here,
and I want to put
it over here in the beginning of this timeline.
I'm going to copy it Command C.
And then I'm gonna come over here.
If I were to paste this over here,
it's gonna paste right into it.
And of course that's not cool.
We don't want that.
It's pasting there specifically because
the V1 and A1 tracks are highlighted.
However, if you were to highlight v2
and not have V1 or A1 highlighted when you paste,
It's going to paste above and below.
Again, take with this what you will.
I find this incredibly helpful for my workflow because
I'm often copying pasting things a lot.
And especially when it comes to
other assets and graphics and things like that,
I want to make sure I create those things
and import those things as smoothly as possible.
And this is a really easy way to do that.
So take with that what you will.
But I honestly, when I learned that that was gold,
to me, of course,
there are so many shortcuts you can learn.
And I believe that that can be
an overwhelming thing when you are learning
video editing is feeling like you need
to learn all of these shortcuts.
What do all of these shortcuts mean?
What do all of these windows mean?
But again, we are in the business of
making things as minimal and easy as possible.
And so while I could continue on
other shortcuts that might be helpful to use.
Those are the main shortcuts that I
use in my daily life as a video editor,
especially working in YouTube,
those core shortcuts are going to help you become
a more professional video editor and most importantly,
a wicked fast editor.
So hope that helps
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