65 Premiere Rush Shortcuts for Editing Social Media Videos

Speed up your workflow for editing, producing, and publishing social media videos with these essential keyboard shortcuts

Adobe Premiere Rush is a program designed to quickly make and share videos online. It lets you edit, color correct, adjust audio, add titles, and more. It can be used on multiple devices, offers hundreds of customizable motion graphics effects, and can be integrated with Adobe Stock.

To get the most out of this program and speed up your process for creating content for social media, check out these shortcuts.

Advantages of Premiere Rush

Premiere Rush was designed to offer quick solutions to problems that social media content producers often face. Some of the advantages of working with this program are:

- Straight-forward editing: Premiere Rush has an intuitive interface and enables you to flexibly create on the go.

- A simple timeline: Using drag-and-drop, you can easily organize scenes. It features a timeline offering four video tracks and three audio tracks.

- Customizable titles: Access built-in motion graphics templates designed by professionals that are also very easy to customize.

- Add audio: Premiere Rush allows you to record voiceovers and use other simple tools such as sound balancing, noise reduction, and auto-correction to make your videos sound great.

- Share your work on social media: with just a few clicks, you can add a thumbnail, schedule a publication, and publish it on various social media platforms without having to exit Premiere Rush.

- Available on multiple devices: You can edit on your phone, tablet, or desktop computer. All edits are automatically synced via the cloud, ensuring you always have access to the latest versions.

Shortcuts

Remember: Mac users, switch Ctrl for Command ⌘ and Alt for option ⌥.

Keys for File menu

New Project → Ctrl + N
New Sequence → Ctrl + Alt + N
Close Project → Ctrl + W
Share → Ctrl + E
Exit → Alt + F4 ⌘ + Q

Keys for Edit menu

Undo → Ctrl + Z
Redo → Mayús + Ctrl + Z ⇧ + ⌘ + Z
Cut → Ctrl + X
Copy → Ctrl + C
Paste → Ctrl + V
Select All → Ctrl + A
Deselect All → Mayús + Ctrl + A ⇧ + ⌘ + A

Keys for Clip menu

Remember: Mac users, switch Ctrl for Command ⌘ and Alt for option ⌥.

Separate Audio → E
Split → S
Duplicate → D
Apply Transition → Ctrl + D

Keys for Sequence menu

Add Title → T
Add Voiceover → U
Add Media → Y
Zoom In → =
Zoom Out → -
Zoom to Fit → \
Snap → Ctrl + Y
Play Audio while Scrubbing → A
Loop → Ctrl + L

Keys for View menu

Remember: Mac users, switch Ctrl for Command ⌘ and Alt for option ⌥.

Titles → Ctrl + 1
Transitions → Ctrl + 2
Color → Ctrl + 3
Speed → Ctrl + 4
Audio → Ctrl + 5
Transform → Ctrl + 6
Next Tool → Ctrl + →
Previous Tool → Ctrl + ←
Track Controls → Ctrl + T
[b]Expand Audio → Ctrl + R

Keys for Timeline

Remember: Mac users, switch Ctrl for Command ⌘ and Alt for option ⌥.

Go to Next Edit Point → ↓
Go to Previous Edit Point → ↑
Go to End of Sequence → Ctrl + ↓
Go to Beginning of Sequence → Ctrl + ↑
Shuttle Left → J
Shuttle Right → L
Shuttle Stop → K
Step Forward 1 Frame → →
Step Back 1 Frame → ← ←
Full Screen → `
Fit Sequence → \
Split → S
Apply Transition → Ctrl + D

Keys for Large Preview

Mark In → I
Mark Out → O
Clear In → Alt + I
Clear Out → Alt + O
Clear In and Out → Alt + X
Deselect all items → Esc
Back to grid view → Enter
Add selection to timeline → Ctrl + Enter

Keys for Media Browser

Remember: Mac users, switch Ctrl for Command ⌘ and Alt for option ⌥.

Navigate Keyboard Focus → → ← ↑ ↓
Deselect All items → Esc
Enter Large Preview → Enter
Select / Deselect Focused Asset → Z
Select All Assets in Folder → Ctrl + A
Deselect All Assets in Folder → Ctrl + Mayús + A ⌘ + ⇧ + A
Add Selection to Timeline → Ctrl + Intro

Given that the demand for more and more content is constantly increasing, it’s important to simplify your production processes. A program like Adobe Premiere Rush, which offers multiple features, might be the solution you were looking for to speed up your workflow.

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English version by @eloiseedgington.

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