Keyboard Shortcuts for Adobe Programs

Check out a compiled list of the Default Keyboard Shortcuts for Audition, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Premiere Rush, and Spark.

What are keyboard shortcuts?
A keyboard shortcut is a key or combination of keys providing quick access to a particular function within a computer program.

Why do people use keyboard shortcuts?
Keyboard shortcuts help you get things done faster and easier! Essentially, it’s doing actions you may normally do with your mouse with your keyboard instead… (think pressing the space bar when pausing/playing a Netflix show.)

Each Adobe program allows for you to customize your keyboard shortcuts, but for now, here are guides for default shortcuts for various Adobe Programs you may find yourself using!

Audition

Illustrator

InDesign

Photoshop

Premiere Pro

Premiere Rush

Spark

Split Screens in Premiere Pro

In usual Premiere fashion, there are multiple ways to get the desired effect.

Below are two quick videos showing you how to create a split-screen effect for your PremirePro video projects.

This first one is a classic side-by-side, getting into the ‘how-to’ of it all at the 01:10 mark.

And if you really want to spice things up, here is a video about creating a dynamic split-screen.

Again, there are multiple ways to go about getting to your desired results. If you’re having trouble or these methods don’t seem to be doing it for you, feel free to reach out to the agent on duty. We’re always here to help 🙂

Happy creating!

Captions and Subtitles in Premiere Pro

Within media, captions are important for audience engagement, growing interest in online video, and most importantly, the accessibility of content.

This video shows you how to add captions/subtitles into your work on Premiere. It also does a great job of explaining the difference between closed captioning and open captioning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrioNxpDH-c&t=4s

Here are the go-to timestamps for the explanations included in the video below.

00:00 – Intro
01:32 – Difference between Captions and Subtitles
02:17 – Add captions in Premiere Pro
03:05 – Caption standards explained
06:35 – Export captions in Premiere
07:22 – Edit Open captions in Premiere
08:17 – Export captions for Youtube to .srt file

And now for a quick summary of the difference between closed and open captioning (which is covered at 03:05 in the video).

Closed captions: can be turned on or off based on the media platform provider (ex. Netflix or Youtube.) Closed captions exist separately from the video.

Open captions: always visible. Open captions exist as part of the video.