Since first teaching myself how to use After Effects and Premiere I’ve been slowly learning new tricks and settings which have definitely improved my overall efficiency in using the programs – especially Premiere, which I’ve been using a lot this year.
1. View a Panel in Full Screen [~]
Really useful for fine tuning the timeline and previewing video panels. I’ve always just dragged the video window to be relatively large (or used a second monitor) but this shortcut seems like it’ll make previewing video much easier.
2. Toggle ‘Snapping’ on/off [S]
Snapping is generally a useful function and definitely speeds up the editing process, however sometimes I find it’s easier to make fine edits with Snapping turned off. This shortcut makes it way easier to toggle Snapping on & off, saving me precious editing seconds.
3. Ripple Delete [Shift+fn+Delete]
This one will save me a lot of time as up until now the ripple delete function has required 2-3 separate clicks each time. Being able to Ripple Delete with 0 clicks will certainly make things easier – especially by paring this with the ‘Cut’ shortcut. This also taught me how to ‘forward delete’ on Mac which is really useful as (on Windows) I used to use the ‘forward delete’ function all the time: BONUS shortcut! fn+Delete = ‘Forward Delete’.