Premiere Pro comes with several different shortcuts to speed up your editing work flow.
If you come from another editing application, Premiere Pro also makes it easy to transition with preset keyboard layouts.
Let's take a look!
I'm on a Mac, so I'm going to head over to Premiere Pro, Keyboard Shortcuts.
On a PC, this would be available under the Edit menu.
Once I click on Keyboard Shortcuts, a keyboard shortcuts dialogue box appears telling me that my keyboard layout preset is currently set to the Adobe Premiere Pro defaults.
Next to the magnifying glass, I can perform a search such as Track Select to discover that my Command's Track Select Backward tool is currently mapped to the shortcut SHIFT+A, and my Track Select Forward tool is currently mapped to the shortcut A.
If I click on the X, it will clear the search results.
I would be able to see all of the keyboard shortcuts currently being used by particular menus over here at the side.
I can also switch my keyboard layout preset from the currently Adobe Premiere Pro defaults over to another editing application.
I'm going to choose the final cut Pro 7 keyboard. and once I press OK, we can see that the Track Select Forward tool, which was mapped to the A key on the Premiere Pro keyboard layout is now mapped to the T key.
I could also see that my selection tool is mapped to A, and my razor tool is set to the B key.
I'll hit B to select the blade tool, and perform an incision on my timeline.
If I hit Command+Z, we can undo that operation.
I'll head back to my Premiere Pro keyboard shortcuts to open up the dialogue box and switch my keyboard layout preset back to the Adobe Premiere Pro default.
I'll press OK.
Over in the timeline, I'll hit Tilde key to make the window full frame, and switch back to my default selection tool.
Under the timeline display settings, I would like to show you that I've created a track height preset to enlarge my V1 and V2 tracks.
I would like to map this to a keyboard shortcut.
You can see there that it will enlarge the tracks.
I'll go back to the menu to minimize all tracks.
Under my Premiere Pro keyboard shortcuts, I'm going to do a search for track height.
And we can see that no track height presets are currently mapped to shortcuts.
I will double click the track height preset one column, and I will type in Command+1 or Control+1 on a PC to assign it that shortcut key.
You'll see at the top under my keyboard layout presets a new custom keyboard layout preset has been created.
If I choose Save As, I can give this keyboard layout preset a name such as Track Height.
Once I press Save, you'll see that that layout preset is now saved.
I'll press OK, and if I hit Command+1 on a Mac or Control+1 on a PC, I am able to enlarge my tracks.
Besides this, there are also helpful timeline shortcuts such as the equal key to zoom in on the timeline, as well as Option or Alt+Q to trim the in point of your clip to the playhead position.
Also, under my Premiere Pro sync settings, Manage Sync Settings—this is available under the edit menu on a PC— we can see that right now, my sync settings are currently aligned.
My keyboard shortcuts are synching always to the cloud.
And that is how you remap your keyboard in Premiere Pro.
