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Create a Custom Shortcut in Premiere

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You're watching VisiHow. In this video, we are going to show how to create custom shortcuts in Premiere Pro. An example of the reason that you may do this is creating new sequences out of each clip while editing.

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Normally, to create a new sequence out of a clip, we right-click the clip
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We scroll down until we find the "New Sequence From Clip" button
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We click "New Sequence From Clip"
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Once we click it, the clip will be added as a sequence to the right-hand side. Also, the sequence will be added onto the major window of the project.
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A faster way of creating a new sequence, rather than right-clicking all of the clips, is to click "Premiere Pro CC"
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It is at the top.

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We click "Keyboard Shortcuts..."
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We can search for a common task that we would do
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Let's type "sequence".

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We click "Sequence From Clip"
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We can click the right-hand side of the table next to "Sequence From Clip"
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A black box with an "x" will be shown.

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We press the key combination that we would like to use for the action
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First, we'll do something that's common so that we know how not to overwrite one of the existing keyboard shortcuts. Let's press "command" and "S", which is typically reserved for "Save". The warning will be given, which reads: "The shortcut Cmd+S was already in use by the Application > File > Save command. That command will no longer have a keyboard shortcut."
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We can click "Undo"
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We click the right-hand side of the table next to "Sequence From Clip" again
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We are going to use a key combination that is not taken. Let's use "option" and "C". The "C" is going to stand for "sequence from the Clip".
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We click "OK"
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We click one of the clips
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We press "option" and "C"
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A new sequence will be added to the timeline for us.
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That was how to set up custom keyboard shortcuts in Premiere Pro. If you have any questions or comments, please leave them in the space below. Thanks for watching VisiHow!