As video creators, we all want to edit videos faster and the search for new tips, tricks, and keyboard shortcuts is a never-ending endeavor. That’s why I put together a 60-second tutorial (link at the bottom of this article), showing 14 keyboard shortcuts that will help you edit faster and…

We all spend a ton of time mixing, cutting, shortening, fading, or keyframing music to match the video we are editing (or vice versa). What if you could shorten or extend any song in Adobe Premiere Pro to match the length of your video. 🧐 With Premiere Pro:s Remix Tool…

There is a way to easily freeze a clip in Adobe Premiere Pro and it’s called “Frame Hold”. (It will not put ice on your clip though, like in the picture of Jim Carrey below. 🥶) The way I usually do this is by cutting a clip where I want…

Did you know that you can jump to a specific time in the timeline without even touching the playhead? Well, the way to do this is to go to the Program window and look at the bottom left corner of that window. Here you can see where your playhead is…

If you rename or label (also called “color code”) your clips in the timeline, you can save a lot of time while editing, if you have a structure behind it. ⏱ Previously, there was a button in the “Project settings” window called “display the project item name and label color…

Creating a “write-on” effect or “handwriting” effect in After Effects is actually very simple, but it can be time-consuming depending on the text. First, select your text in the timeline window, then click the “Pen Tool” in the toolbar. Now, create a path with the pen tool by clicking on…

When it comes to zooming in the actual software, you have some different options. If you place the mouse cursor in the “Composition” window, you can zoom in or out by scrolling on your mouse or dragging 2 fingers apart on a touchpad. A second option is to use the…

Let’s say you have vector layers in Illustrator you want to insert into After Effects. To do this, you can just drag the illustrator file directly into After Effects, but before you do that, we want to make sure the illustrations are separated into individual layers. Every top layer in…