Handy Keyboard Shortcuts in Adobe Premiere Pro

Here’s a list of handy keyboard shortcuts for Adobe Premiere Pro. I keep forgetting these little helpers every 6 months or so… 

By no means an extensive or complete list, here are the ones that I like using:

Timeline

• SPACE – Playback at 100%
• K – Stop
• J – Play 100% backwards (multiple presses accelerates back)
• L – Play 100% forwards (multiple presses accelerates forwards)
• Left Cursor – step forward one frame
• Right Cursor – step back one frame
• \ (Backslash) – toggle between zoomed in and full view of the timeline
• Fn + Up (or Page Up) – jump to the next edit point
• Fn + Down (or Page Down) – jump to the previous edit point
• Fn + Left – jump to the beginning of the sequence
• Fn + Right – jump to the end of the sequence

Editing

• V – Selection Tool
• B – Ripple Edit Tool
• N – Rolling Edit Tool
• X – Rate Stretch Tool
• C – Razor Tool

Import / Export

• CMD/CTRL+M – Export Media
• CMD+I – Import Media

Create your own Shortcuts

Premiere has a handy menu in which we can lookup existing shortcuts, as well as setup our own. There are so many functions, and not all of them have pre-defined shortcuts. Head over to Premiere Pro – Shortcuts and save whole sets of shortcut setups.

Needless to say, we can also change existing shortcuts to something more personal here.