Find the keyboard shortcuts for Premiere (hint, film-tv blog) and note four or more functions that you’ve never used before and why they may be invaluable to your editing. (Different functions to what you wrote last semester)

‘Speed Duration’

Shortcut: ‘CMD+R’

It is inevitable, at some point  in the editing process that we will need to alter the speed or duration of our footage, whether this be tostylistic effect or to shape a clip to best suit an allotted time slot. Being able to employ a shortcut to call up the speed/duration menu will save a huge amount of time in this process as well as serving as a quick way to monitor the duration of each clip in our sequence.

‘Duplicate’

Shortcut: ‘CMD+A’

This shortcut will be valuable as it will allow us to extract sections of our edited film and trial advanced editing such as colour grading on separate sequences without risking damage or confusion to the footage we have cut, it will also allow group members to edit the film on their own, and separate their own edits from the main sequence. The ‘duplicate’ short-cut could also be used to stylistic effect, allowing us to copy and layer b-roll in the film.

‘Razor’

Shortcut: ‘C’

The razor tool, in particular its short-cut will be essential when working make precise edit maximising clean and easy cutting and splicing of footage, particularly with regard to interview seuquences in which it is imperative to capture audio accurately.

‘Record Audio’

Shortcut: ‘A’

I have largely included this shortcut because I was not aware that this feature of Premiere was so easily assessable, this will however prove useful if we choose to record supplementary sound effects or narration in the post-production process.