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1. Welcome, this is what you're going to learn: Welcome to this short but super valuable class here
on Skillshare, where I teach you how I
managed to work more than two times faster inside of
Adobe Premiere Pro, with the help of 15 of the most useful keyboard
shortcuts in the software. Hi, I'm Joey, a filmmaker editor and content
creator from Netherlands. And especially as
a content creator, I had to work as
efficient as possible. So this class is designed for everyone that does video
editing in Premiere Pro, but is seeking to do
that more efficient, no matter if you're
just starting out or already are a more
experienced video editor, I think there is something
to learn in this class for everyone because
as a video editor or a soda filmmaker like myself, you spend most of your days behind the computer
editing and video. And at that point, doing this simple actions
more efficient is going to save you a lot of time at
the end of the process. So by the end of this class, I believe that you upgraded
your workflow with at least one thing that you wish you knew earlier
in your career. I've split the techniques up
into three different parts. One, navigating on a
timeline to a row editing. So a simple talking
head like this, e.g. and three B-roll editing. So working with
overlapping footage in that way we cover almost
the whole editing process. In the next episode, I will tell you
some useful things to know before we start. See you there.
2. Important things to know before we start: Hi guys. Before we start
with the shortcuts, here are some useful
things to note. First of all, if we go
to Premier Pro and we hit over here the
Premier Pro text, we can go to keyboard shortcuts. And over here, you
will see this a lot as B-roll in upcoming episodes. But over here, you can set
all the shortcuts you want. And over here you can see which shortcuts are
already in use. And if you want to
change something or if you want to
delete something, you can just double-click
on the thing over here, like the B, e.g. and then you can hit the cross, but you can also
click next to it. And if you now select key
on your keyboard, e.g. the H, then it will put the H as a new
shortcut next to it. But watch out, because now
it says the shortcut H is already in use with another
application commands. So know what you're doing
here because otherwise it's overriding other shortcuts. I will give you in this class a couple of recommendations, but if you change something, you can save it as a new preset. So then you can hit the
Save As button over here. Then there's a second
thing I have to tell you, and that is that I'm working on a Mac computer like
90% of the time, it's exactly the same, but there is one big difference when you're working on
a Windows computer. That is the Command key, because I'm working
on a Mac computer and I think a lot of creative
people work on a Mac computer. I use command in this class, but when you're
working on Windows, every time I say command, you have to use control. So e.g. when I use Command L, then you have to use Control L. So keep that in mind. And of course, I'm working
in Adobe Premiere Pro. If you're not already
using Adobe Premiere Pro, I've put a link in the class project about
the class project. Last but not least, what do I want you to do? Find a way to add the new
shortcuts into your editing. Because when you're working on a new project in two weeks, the chances that you forgot to shortcuts
or that you forgot the workflow because
it's really easy to fall into old patterns. That's just that we
as humans function. So what I do to remind myself of the new things I learned
is I write it down on a post-it note and
stick it in wherever I want on my desk or my
monitor or things like that. You can also write it
down on a piece of paper or a notebook. So I want you to leave
a picture with your way to remind yourself of the
new things you learned. So with that I said
everything you need to know. Now let's start with
the first episode, which is about navigating
on the timeline.
3. Shortcuts for navigating on the timeline: Let's start with
some quick shortcuts to navigate on the timeline. The most common, of course, is zooming in and zooming out. I wish scrolling with your
mouse while holding Command on your keyboard was more
seamless, but it isn't. I don't know why it is. Because you will say that if you build a
function like this, that would work perfectly. But only if you do
it really slow, but if you want to be quick
then begging all the time. So hitting the
plus and minus key on your keyboard
is my way to go. It's also really
nice that it keeps your play head always
in the middle so you can really precisely
zoom in on a specific thing. And did you know
that hitting the backslash on your keyboard, make sure timeline like the
content on your timeline, fitting your screen the best way to have a good overview
on what you did. Going to the beginning
or the end of a clip by hitting the up and down
button on your keyboard. If you want to do that
manually by hand, I wish you good luck zooming
in and out endlessly. Not really a keyboard shortcut, but definitely a shortcut is to double-click in the beginning of a layer of a video or audio layer to make
it bigger or smaller. Also, if it's like a
really weird size, you can reset it to
those two sizes. It's super nice as
you can switch to it like really easily
because sometimes she wants to do something
over here like now you can change the opacity and you
have the same with audio. Like if you want to have bigger audio because you
want to see the waveforms, but then you want to do it because you don't
have a lot of space. The sound effects over here, you can really easily switch
between those options. A trick to navigate not only in the timeline but in
Premiere itself, is to hit this key. It's called the back tick. And yes, I had to look that up. It's probably in your
left bottom corner and it makes every smaller window you're
in which you can defined by the blue
line around it. It makes it full screen. I use it a lot on
these two windows, this one and this one and y, because sometimes
I want to check something like close up
on the preview monitor. So if I hit that back tick key, I can check if there
may be something visible in the
background or also I use this when I'm done editing and I want
to review the video, then I can really
focus on what's going on here instead of
looking at the timeline. And over here I used
a lot if I want to find a specific B-roll. So if I make this bigger because now I'm working on
a 13 inch screen, so I don't have a lot of room, but now my overview of all the shots I
have is bigger so I can find the thing
I'm looking for the Bureau I'm looking
for more easily. Otherwise, I had
to scroll through all the B-roll over here. Then when I found
it, I select it, I go back with the back
deck and then I find it here so I can now drag
it into my timeline.
4. Shortcuts for A-roll video editing: Now it's time for a row editing. The first thing I'm doing
when I'm starting a row edit is to link my audio Emma
video together because most of the time I have
now separate audio and I want to link that
together to the video. I do that with command L, and that is link or unlinked
the audio and video, depending on what it already is, it's way easier than hitting the right mouse button and
search for link slash unlink. And when I'm linking
these things together, I always keep the old audio
there in case of emergency, but I want that
audio to be muted. For that, I disable or enable the audio
or separate clips. And you can do that by
the right mouse button and then search for it. But it's easier to hit
Command Shift E. Like I said, I mostly use it for audio when I don't want to hear
one audio layer, but I'm not ready yet to
delete it completely, but also use it a lot
for B-roll editing. If I have multiple B-roll
on top of each other, then I can hit Command
Shift E to take a quick look of what
is underneath it, e.g. now, only like this back
tick icon is on top of here. And if I don't like it, I'll leave it as a bold and
it's the same as with audio. If I delete it or if
I move it, I lost it. I can just leave it
in the same place, but I can turn the
visibility off. Then it's time to trim
and catch your video. The most important process
of your editing career, and there are a lot
of ways to do it. This is what I think
is the best way. So bear with me, first of all, the dead residue and throw
it out of the window. Because even when you use the shortcuts to go to the tool, it's a waste of time. Also deleting a
part of the video, the normal way is not efficient because of the gap it leaves. So instead of doing this, hit C on your keyboard
for the razor tool, make a cut here, make
a second cut there, then hits the fee to
go to the normal tool, click on it to select
it, and delete it, then hits the a on your keyboard
for the select forgot to grab everything on the right and shove it back to the cut, then hit V on your keyboard
for the normal tool. And you can go on with
reviewing your footage. These are a lot of steps
to do a rough edit, even if you use the shortcuts on your
keyboard for the tools. But there are two magic actions you need to know to
make this quicker. And those are at
Edit and ripple, delete add edits
will make a cut on your video like instantly
and width ripple delete. You can delete something
without having a gap because it automatically shoves
the other part of the video back
to where God to us. If you put these two actions
on a shortcut, you get this, go to the point cut, go to the point gut,
select, Delete, done. Now multiply the time
you save by 500. I don't know how many cuts you making a video and you've got yourself a fast way
of doing a raw edits. So I've put the add, edit and ripple delete on the queue and the
W on my keyboard. That's because then
I can always have my two fingers on the Q and W. And by thump
on the space bar, I call it the magic triangle. But then we're running into a problem because normally
on the queue and the W, there is a shortcut
called ripple trim, which is also amazing. But let me tell
you the difference between cutting and trimming. Guarding is making a cut in
your video and dreaming is dragging your video in the end or the beginning,
shorter or longer. So if you hit the
ripple trim action, it automatically
makes you a video shorter and back to where pause. And then with the
queue, it cuts off everything at the
left of the clip. And with the W, it cuts off everything on the
right of the clip. It's amazing for our
bureaus and stuff. I like having more
control with the ripple, delete and add edit, but I still want to
use it some time. So what I did is I put the ripple trim
underneath command, queue and comments w. In that way, it's as
accessible as always because my thumb is next to the Command key because
it's on the space bar. And I still have more
freedom for the normal add, edit and ripple delete, which are used more often. And how do you change that? It's really easy. I already told you in
the second episode, but if you go to
keyboard shortcuts, then you see all these
shortcuts over here and then you can type in here to thing you're looking for. So e.g. ripple, delete. You can see that's on
the w for me right now. And you can also type in not ripple delete, but ripple trim. And then you can see that it
is on Command W right now. So if we click next to it, we can delete this one or add new one and then you
can change it around. That's it for the quickest
way to edit a row.
5. Shortcuts for B-roll video editing: Then, then it's time for B-roll. When I'm shooting B-roll,
I do that often in a different setting,
a higher resolution. So I have more freedom with scaling the clip
when I'm editing. But then when you're dragging
the video on your timeline, it's too big, so you
have to make it smaller. You can do that by going
to effect controls and manually scale it smaller. But you can also hit set to frame size or scale
to frame size. You do that by hitting
the right mouse button and then look for
it and then hit it. But what is the difference
between scale to frame size? Set to Frame Size? If you hit scale to frame size, you see that the video is now feeding your preview monitor. But when we go to
Effect Controls, the scale is still on 100. So now it's killed the video and that will be your new 100s. But if we go back and we
hit Set to Frame Size, now it's scaled the video to the perfect fitting
for your screen, but the skill chains now too. So now it's really 50 per cent. I personally always
use set to frame size. So when I'm selecting
it, I can see, oh wait, it's already
50 per cent scale. So that means that it
was normally a fork, a video because sometimes
you forget which clips off for k and which not. But that's of course a
personal preference. But when I'm doing a B-roll Edit and I have like 2050,
maybe 100 rolls. It not doable and I want
that action to be quicker. That's why I made a
shortcut for that. It's not already there, but I put Set to Frame Size
underneath comment for why command for that is because normally I'm
shooting B-roll is in for K, So four and is also in the
left side of my keyboard. So I still can keep that
magic triangle happen. But it's not only for
four K video, of course, works also with weird
sizes or photos, but also vertical video. Another setting when I'm
shooting B-roll is that I'm not shooting
B-roll in 30 FPS, but more often I shoot it in 60 FPS so I can make
it slow motion. And instead of guessing
how much I can slow down my footage with the
rate stretch tool, which by the way is
a fantastic tool. If you hit R on your keyboard, you go to the tool
and you can direct your video longer or shorter. It's great for
when the length of the video is more important
than the exact speed. But for slow-motion be rolls, the exact percentage you slow it down is way
more important, and then you have to go
to speed and duration. If I shoot my video in 60 FPS, but my timeline is in 30 FBS. Then of course, I
can type in here 50, and the video will be
exactly 50% speed, so it will be the
maximum slow motion. So you can also do that
based on a duration, on his very specific duration. And you can also hit
here refers to beat. And you can also decide
here if you want to maintain the audio
page that will determine if you have like a high pitched voice or
nuts or very low one. Of course, you can go there by hitting your right mouse
button and search for it, but it's easier
to hit Command R. And also for these tools, I recommend you switch
around if you use one or the other more often so
they are or comments are, you can flip that. One lost big shout out to
the rolling edit tool. It's a normal tool that
it's just in your toolbar. You can go there by hitting
the N on your keyboard. But I found out way too late. What it exactly does, what it does is it moves a gut. So if you want to
move a cut e.g. of two roles that you want to switch between the
B-roll earlier or later. You can hit N and
then you can drag the cut closer or further away. So one video is getting shorter than the other video
is getting longer. Probably you already
knew about this, but otherwise, My pleasure.
6. Thank you: Hi guys. I hope you enjoyed it. I hope you learn something new. A quick goodbye from me here, but I forgot something because we had 14 different shortcuts. So we need one more. Maybe you've already
seen that episode too. But there is a shortcut
to go to the shortcuts, and that is Command Option K. So with that, we're topping off this class number
50 Command Option. I would really like if you reviewed this class
because it will help me and future students
to follow this class too. I think this was a short
but valuable class. I hope you think that too. And then I hope also to
see you the next time here on Skillshare or maybe
somewhere else on the internet. Bye.
Joey Bettenbroek, Filmmaker & Video Editor
