Field order
The Interpret Footage dialog has a new feature in CS4 that hasn’t received much publicity: You can now change the [...]
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Archive for April, 2009
Keyboard shortcut spreadsheet
There’s a secret way to get a spreadsheet of all the keyboard shortcuts in Premiere Pro: Hold down Shift-Command (PC: [...]
Add effects to an entire track
If you’d like to apply an audio effect to an entire track, simply open the Audio Mixer (Window>Audio Mixer) and [...]
Delete a clip without leaving a gap
Select a clip in the Timeline and then use the Option key (PC: Alt key) in conjunction with the Delete [...]
Select just the audio or video in a linked clip
Use the Option key (PC: Alt key) to select video or audio only on a linked clip in the Timeline. [...]
Fast Timeline zooms
If you find yourself repeatedly zooming in to work on small sections of your Timeline, the Backslash key can toggle [...]
Leave the audio behind
The Drag Video Only icon (filmstrip) and Drag Audio Only icon (speaker) in the Source Monitor (Window>Source Monitor) allow you [...]
Hide thumbnails to increase performance
Turning off thumbnails in the Timeline makes performance much faster, particularly when working with stills. To turn off the thumbnails, [...]
Freedom of speech
When exporting a Timeline with speech search metadata, Premiere Pro collects all the speech metadata and puts it in the [...]
Take it to the max
The Tilde (~) key maximizes the frame of the panel that your cursor is over, not the currently active panel. [...]
You don’t need to preserve colors when pulling a key
Sometimes it’s hard to key out a background without messing up the colors of the foreground subject that you’re trying [...]
Your shape layers want to wiggle
Add a Wiggle Transform operation and a Repeater operation to a shape to randomize (wiggle) the properties of the repeated [...]
You don’t (always) have to manually set composition settings
When you drag a footage item in the Project panel to the Create a New Composition icon at the bottom [...]
Your Shift and Arrow keys want you to work faster, too
Navigating nested compositions just got a lot faster. When you tap the Shift key, the Composition Mini-Flowchart opens to show [...]
Your right mouse button wants you to work faster
Rather than hunting around in the menus at the top of the application window for a command, try Control-clicking (PC: [...]
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