This article is part of a series of posts with tips and tricks from our producers' experience working with Adobe Premiere Pro CC after years of working in Final Cut Pro. To read more about why we made the switch, check out this post. A reader who is new to Premiere Pro writes, “OK, I cry uncle. I can’t for the life of me come up with an efficient way to use the keyboard to select the end or beginning of a clip. How do you do it? Do you use the mouse?” Turns out that selecting edit points with just the keyboard is simple. Just press the T key and Premiere Pro will select the edit points closest to your playhead. Here’s the trick though: Premiere Pro will only select the tracks that are highlighted in the left column. In the example below, pressing T selects only the edit point for…

This article is part of a series of posts with tips and tricks from our producers' experience working with Adobe Premiere Pro CC after years of working in Final Cut Pro. To read more about why we made the switch, check out this post. Sharing sequences between team members is easy with the latest version of Premiere Pro CC. As often happens during our workshops, a participant will cut a sequence using her laptop. We’ll then need to import that work into the main project on a second computer. Here’s how we do it: In the Media Browser window (Shift–8), navigate to the project file that contains the sequence you’d like to import. Double-click the file and you’ll see all of the sequences and media available in that project. To import, simply drag the relevant sequence from the Media Browser to the Project window. A couple of caveats: first, make sure that…

In a digital world, transcription feels like tube amps and mechanical typewriters. It’s an affront to all things modern. In short, it’s a laborious process that kind of sucks. Sure, Premiere Pro has some built-in tools, but they feel mostly like an experiment and a bad one at that. Apple offers a dictation service that is remarkably good with a human voice but falls short when you feed an audio file to it. So how come a better solution doesn’t exist, one that offers a deep integration between the timeline and a transcript? Adobe, if you’re listening, here’s my dream for Premiere Pro CC 2016. Audio Transcription On Ingestion Import a file with audio and Premiere Pro automatically emeds a timecode-based transcript into the file. Text Document That Contains All Transcription In A Sequence Premiere Pro creates a text document based on which portions of a clip are used in a timeline.…