Screencasting Tutorial #9 - Editing Shortcuts

Key Takeaways

welcome back to the series on screencasting and we've made it all the way to the end congratulations let's cover ten shortcuts to speed up your editing keyboard shortcut one command K adds a split in your footage wherever your marker is if we click on the key C we can also trigger the razor tool and do the same thing command T adds a text layer if we need to write something on top of our footage command Z is probably one of the most important tools because you never know when you make a mistake and command Z is to undo that command l unlinks your video and audio track so you can maneuver them separately this is useful when you're working with music or other sound effects nudging is one of the things I used most often it's done by holding the command key and the arrow key this will move your footage over just one frame if you hold the shift along with that combo you can move it or several frames around five frames ahead or behind depending on which arrow you click command Z adds a default transition between two Clips all you do is select two clips and press the key combo and a cross-dissolve will be applied to your footage remember when we talked about changing the speed of our footage welcome and R will pop out that menu plus a minus button on your keyboard will expand or shorten the timeline J will play the footage in Reverse I will play the footage forward and K will stop it pressing L or J twice will speed up the footage in either direction the last joke I want to talk about is come in I and that is to import a file that's it and in the next video we will talk about exporting and uploading to YouTube