This is a razor. And that is the razor tool inside premiere pro one can do some serious NarlMcNarlstein one hander clanders at the skate park. While, to bring up the other racer tool inside Premiere Pro, you could hit the keyboard shortcut, C, and then you'd be on your way splicing up clips on the timeline faster than my knife, cutting sweet potatoes for family dinner tonight. But what if I told you you didn't have to use the razor tool In fact, if you were to smash the like button on this video right now like that, it would grant you access to an even faster way of editing footage inside premiere pro, even faster than you can say, Tony Hawk's premiere pro skater with razors. For example, let me showcase to you how many steps it takes to do a simple trim edit utilizing the razor tool vs. what I think are some more efficient ways to do this process. What you're looking at right now is an example of what most editors are going to face. B-Roll talking head music in the trim that I want to accomplish is getting rid of this bit of silence right here while covering it up with the B-Roll. So using the razor tool, here's how many steps it's going to take. Let's say I'm doing a first pass on footage and playing the footage back. And I notice, wow, there is a lot of silence right here that I want to get rid of. So I'm gonna hit pause on my spacebar, zoom out, hit C on the keyboard to bring up the razor tool, create my cut right here in my cut right here. I'm going to hit V to bring back my selection tool. Click the clip, hit delete, lock off my music and go up to my tracks, select forward tool and move the clips over. Hit V to bring up my selection tool again. Click clicking the empty space to unselect all of the footage and then hit spacebar to continue reviewing my edit. That's fourteen actions to do one trim edit utilizing this method with the razor tool. Now if you want to cut down on the amount of steps that it takes to do this kind of thing, I'll let you in on a little secret. Stop using the razor tool. But wait, what am I supposed to do without my beloved razor tool Javier? I'm so glad you asked Javier. That was Masked from the future. Let me introduce to you a shortcut called "add edit" did you just throw away my razor. It was for dramatic effect. I'll get it by utilizing add edit. We're effectively going to get rid of all those steps that would require us to use the razor tool to create a split using add edit instead of the razor tool line the play had up where you want the split to happen. I'm going to highlight the clip that I want to split and then hit Command K. Now I have effectively created a split in just this clip. The crazy thing is I can also do this to a bunch of clips at the same time, let's say I don't want to affect my music, so I'm still going to lock this off. But I want to create a cut in my B-roll in the talking head at the same time. So I'm going to do that same process by hitting command K. and because my toggled track targeting is on or this is highlighted blue, it creates a cut on both of these tracks at the same time. So with one keystroke, you've effectively eliminated all those steps that required you to use the razor tool by utilizing add edit. But we can make the process of trimming clips even more effective. Let me showcase to you a technique called RIPple Deleting or Ripple trimming or Ripple editing, however you want to call it. The process looks like what you see here on screen. For example, here we have an unedited, raw clip and I want to get rid of these moments of silence for this first part of silence. I'm going to move the play head where I want to cut hit the letter Q on the keyboard. And that will delete everything from the beginning of the clip to the position of the play head. For this middle section. I'm going to line up the play head where I wanted to start, and instead of using the Razer tool to split the clip, I'm going to hit Command K on Mac or Control K on Windows. Now move the play head to where you want the end part of the trim to be hit cue and you've effectively rippled trimmed out that part. If you want to ripple trim the end of the clip, just put the play head where you want and hit w. One other common way to ripple delete is to split the clip at the play head using add edit hit D to select the clip underneath the play head and then hit the keys shift and delete at the same time to repeat delete everything at the play head. By now I hope you're seeing the potential here of how many steps we've eliminated from using the Razer tool, but it gets even better. I'm not even showing you the most effective way to do something like this yet. So if you stuck with me so far, leave me a comment down below that says something like I use the razor tool, but now I'm going to try Ripple editing or add edit for president. Let me showcase to you the most efficient way to do an edit like this while playing back. I see that I want to get rid of the trim, so I'm gonna hit stop on the spacebar, move my play head hit command k. Zoom out. Now I'm going to hold command on Mac or control on Windows. That brings up the modifier key for my mouse while I'm using the selection tool. I'm going to move the mouse a little bit over to the side of where the Playhead is that makes it this yellow arrow looking thing going to click and drag, and now I'm utilizing the ripple edit tool and it's going to trim everything. Wherever I move the mouse to watch this, I let go and it effectively moves all of the footage. Just gonna move my B roll over a little bit to cover up what I did hit play. And right now for this edit, we're at eight steps. But I could even eliminate another step by going up to my preferences. Trim allow selection tool to choose Roll and Ripple trims without modifier key. This will effectively treat your selection tool as if the modifier key was already depressed. If you want to go back to the way that it was before, all you'd have to do is hit command on Mac or control on Windows. It acts as it did before. But I actually like having my mouse this way, which effectively turns the amount of steps that you have to do into pause, add edit, click and drag, play. Thank me later. If you're going by the metric of the least amount of steps it takes for you to achieve a specific kind of edit in this circumstance in order to trim the footage the way that I did, that was the least amount of steps that I'm aware of. And if you really know what you're doing in Premiere Pro or you're dealing with a simpler edit, you could cut this down even further to those four steps I just showed you. If you're set in your ways and you're as fast as possible, then, hey, stick to what works. But if you think that getting accustomed to editing like this when you need to trim some footage on the timeline might be faster in the long run than I urge you to find ways to incorporate this into your editing style. And I also urge you to create your own custom keyboard shortcuts to suit this style of editing. What I mean by that is Command K and Shift Delete are all over the keyboard. What I do on my keyboard, instead of using the Razor tool, the add edit function is just the letter F, and that's exactly where you put your finger on the keyboard on home row. If I want to ripple delete something that's T it's right above F but that's how things work for me. I highly urge you to create your own systems where it keeps everything in a little confined space on the keyboard. This tutorial hasn't even grazed the subject of the insert and overwrite tools and premiere pro, which if used effectively, that means you wouldn't even have to be trimming footage on your timeline. So if you want to check out a tutorial on that. That I did. It's right here on the screen. And if you find this video helpful, please share it with another person. And until next time, I hope you're out there living a life of abundance. Bye.
I've been using Premiere since 2002. This is one of the most informative (and fun!) videos I've seen. These are the great tools that a lot of new editors don't get to learn. Everyone knows how to make a cut. But - how to make a cut efficiently and also ensuring you're not screwing up other elements around your edit point is priceless knowledge. Enabling "Show Through Edits" can help with this as well.
Tip from your video for viewers: You can Add Edit on the fly, so you don't need to stop playback to put the edit in. You can just hit ctrl+k and it will add a cut and continue playing. You may need to finesse this later, but it'll get the job done.
My personal way of going through a first pass and eliminating unwanted gaps is:
Step 0: Enable audio scrubbing, disable selection follows playhead. (Doesn't count as a step because it's already set that way.)
Step 1: Don't actually play the footage, just click and drag the playhead and mark in and out (i and o) on either side of the gaps.
Step 2: Shift+Del. This will delete everything between your in and out points. If you happen to have a clip selected, the selected clip will take priority and shift+del WILL DELETE THAT CLIP so make sure you don't have a selection so the in/out takes priority.
Same with add edit, you don't need to let go of the mouse to Shift+Del, and you can program it to another keybind, or in my case, a macro button on the side of the mouse, in order to make it easier to hit with the non-mouse hand.
Even though I've been using Premiere for literally more than half of my life, I'm excited to see your other videos and learn new things that I've never done before.
There are a multitude of ways to build, cut, trim and manipulate footage in premiere. Many already know about these techniques, but I wanted to showcase and prove why they can be a faster way to edit.
This was a good video. I like your style of explaining things, plus, you actually give good information. Subbed
funny clip
depends on how busy/intense editors are
doing things manually sometimes let people think about what they are doing to a degree. but ripple delete for sure is something everyone should know for productivity
thanks