Premiere Introduction & Hotkeys

LearningThink AfterFinal Effects,Cut andPro becoming7 reallycirca good2006, inbut Afterwith Effectsbugs isthat maybehave thebeen bestunsolved gatewayfor drugover toa creative visual applications.decade. If you understand how to use NLEs and you’re using it as a lot,simple you’llNLE, learnthen Premiere is great. If you want to do anything scripted, automated, or complex it’s brutal to use versus using After Effects. That said, it’s fine. It renders things quick and performs fairly well. It is not my favorite application but I’ve spent a ton aboutof editing,time graphics,in layout,there. 3D, compositing, scripting to make your life easier, templating, workflow management and optimization, render farms, what’It's possible with plugins, and color correction (to name just a few).love/hate These things have other suites of programs dedicated to just that one thing. The skills you learn in AE will translate to these other programs and vice versa. In some cases, AE is better than its competition or sister programs. Good example of that? AE is 10x better at keying out backgrounds than Photoshop. It’s also got a much better suite of color correction. So I find myself sometimes using AE to do select work that I used to do in Photoshop. 

I’ve probably logged more flight hours in After Effects than any other program. I’m a utilitarian expert and can do spec work, I’m just not good enough to make sick marketing animations for social media under creative directors who say “make it pop.” Usually my work in AE is clean-up, finishing, post supervision animatics, compositing, or content templates for complex multi-channel media projects. I sometimes use it to make things for my creative practice, but it’s been a while.relationship. 

Hotkeys

AfterPremiere Effects shortcuts are critical tohas a speedyhandy workflow.tool Herefor areletting someyou of my favorites – oh,find and youmodify cankeyboard easilyshortcuts. create your own, too!

Shift, Command, and Option are all modifier keys. 

The below shortcut keys are for Mac, but if you substitute Command (⌘) for Control, they should work on Windows as well. 

Overall
⌘ + Option + ;

App settings ⌘ + 0-9
Workspace Panels ` Make selected panel full-window Shift + ~  Collapse / Expand selected panel

Timeline Navigation and Controls

   I/O+/- GoAdjusts tozoom in,level goof totimeline. out
B/NShift++ and Shift+- SetAdjust the height of all tracks simultaneously.  I/O Mark In, SetMark Out ↑

Page↓

UpNavigates /between Pagecut Downpoints on targeted tracks

⌘ + ← / ⌘ + →

Move the timeline indicator Forward and Back a Frame 

(hold shift and the hotkey to advance 10 frames or reverse 10 frames)

⌘ + ↑ / ⌘ + ↓ Select layer above / below ⌘ + Option + ↑ / ⌘ + Option + ↓ Move layer up / down in stacking order Option + Page Up / Option + Page Down
Nudge a layerclip forward /or back 1 frame

(adding Shift as a modifier moves it 10 frames forward or back)

Keyframe

   

S

Scale P Position R Rotation T Opacity EE Expose Expressions U Expose all variables with keyframes

Misc

⌘ + ShiftOption + /
K

AddKeyboard toShortcuts Render Queue😎

⌘ + KF

CompMatches Settingsclip i/o from timeline

⌘into +the /

Add selected item to compsource (fromnewer projectversions window)of Premiere require this gets manually set up in shortcuts)