Nuts and Bolts Filmmaking

Shortcut Keys

Applications

If you’re editing a lot of footage in Final Cut Pro or Adobe Premiere, you’ll need to learn the keyboard shortcuts to use it most efficiently. Professional editors have special keyboards with all the important editing commands written directly on the keys. Film editors sometimes almost look like typists the way they tap the keyboard to activate sequences of commands.

If you want to maximize the time you spend in editing, you’ll need to learn as many of these commands as you can. To help you overcome the substantial learning curve, it can be incredibly useful to have these shortcuts affixed directly to the appropriate ...