Edius 8 Shortcut Key



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Edius 8 Shortcut Key

Drag a video clip with audio onto an audio track such as 1A, this will strip the video and you can use the audio.

Maxim Jago is the author of the EDIUS Prime course book and an EDIUS Master Trainer. He's an award winning writer, director, editor and technical trainer. He has worked for a broad range of media companies, teaching students ranging from school children to university professors, freelancers to BBC engineers and editors from all around the world. A free video tutorial presented by Frank Spangler on how to edit efficiently with EDIUS. Cool and useful Edius tips and shortcuts. Drag a video clip with audio onto an audio track such as 1A, this will strip the video and you can use the audio. While moving a clip on the timeline, press shift, this will disable snap until you let go of the shift key.

While moving a clip on the timeline, press shift, this will disable snap until you let go of the shift key.

Press Ctrl+T at timeline cursor position and a still image will appear in your bin, you can use that still as a freeze frame. Ctrl+T remembers the format of the last manual still image export. If the last manual image export was tga with lower field first, Ctrl+T will create the same format.

Place cursor in between 2 timeline clips and press Alt+1, this will create a 1 sec transition, press Alt+2 for a 2 sec transition, press Alt+3 for a 3 sec transition and so on.......

Change clips in bin from 16:9 to 4:3 aspect or vice versa by right clicking, properties, there you can change the field order and the thumbnail of the clip

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Change clips audio from stereo to left mono or right mono by right clicking, properties

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Place any effect at the beginning or end of any clip by expanding the clip on timeline to reveal keyer section, drag any effect to the left of the keyer area for a fade in or fly in etc., drag any effect to the right of the keyer for fade out or fly away etc....

Crop and Stretch any clip by right clicking, Layout.....

Quickly move from edit point to edit point on timeline with page up and down buttons.

Ctrl+1 to Ctrl+0 are used for quickly zooming timeline work area, Ctrl+1 = zoomed in to a 1 frame level, Ctrl+0 = zoomed in to always fit entire project. Ctrl+2 and Ctrl+3 are most common for normal editing.

Right click any audio or opacity node, click move, this will allow you to move the node in DB or % by rolling the mouse wheel or typing

Press Alt while dragging a node up and down and all nodes will move up and down.

Quickly fade in an audio clip by pressing Shift+V, timeline cursor must be parked at start of clip to be faded. The duration of the fade can be set in preferences, V-mute duration. To fade out an audio clip the same way, the timeline cursor must be moved left by 1 frame from the end of the clip.

You can fade any audio or video manually by simply clicking to create a node, then pulling the start node or end node down.

Quickly locate unused clips on timeline with the bin search function, then you can drag these clips to a temp bin and delete its contents

To copy/paste a transition, simply drag it

To place transitions between all clips in one hit, press Shift+A to select entire timeline or Ctrl+A to select entire track, then drag the transition in between the first 2 clips, all others will automatically be added. (If you only want to do a certain number of clips, Ctrl select them or rubber band them).

To select all clips on entire timeline, press Shift+A

To place effects on all clips in one hit, press Shift+A to select entire timeline or Ctrl+A to select entire track and drag an effect to the first clip. (If you only want to do a certain number of clips, Ctrl select them or rubber band them).

To change the volume of any track, open the audio mixer. To change the volume of several tracks as a synchronised unit, use the gang feature of the audio mixer.

Preview any transition or effect all day long before committing it by simply pressing the play button. The effect will be played in preview window and external monitor in a loop until you click stop. The effect will also be played while modifying any of the effects parameters in any of the config tabs.

Quickly set thumbnails for your clips in the bin by clicking the clip with the mouse wheel button, then moving the mouse right for forward scroll or back for reverse scroll. See How

Easily mix 4:3 clips into 16:9 project with the use of the layout tool. Place a generic 16:9 background or animated background on V1, place a 4:3 clip on V2, right click the 4:3 clip and click Layout, set fill color to 0% resulting in the 16:9 background filling the otherwise black sidebars

To get Titlemotion Pro started with your favorite font, decoration and alignment etc., simply set all as you would like, then go to the file menu and click Template Manager then click the Update button on the default template

To quickly and easily change a rubberband node, let the timeline cursor snap to it, then press the Y key on the keyboard, this opens the property pallete Use the U key to delete any node at timeline cursor position.

To copy a filter from one clip to another or to many clips in one hit, See How

To measure duration of any section of the timeline, set an I at start of measure point and O at end of measure point and the preview monitor will show the duration See How

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Jump to: Manage Windows Explorer, Address Bar - Basics, Address Bar - Add Custom Locations, Left Navigation Pane Shortctus, Folder Content (Main Pane) - Navigate Files/ Folders, Folder Content (Main Pane) - Manage File/ Folders, Folder Content (Main Pane) - Change Views, Folder Content (Main Pane) - Change Item Order

Win+E

Open Explorer

Alt+F, then N

Duplicate Explorer Window via File, New Window

Ctrl+W

Close Windows Explorer

Alt+D, then Tab (forward)or Alt+Tab (backwards)

Set baseline to Address Bar. Then navigate between (1) Address Bar, (2) Ribbon (3) Left Navigation Pane, (4) Folder Content Pane (Main Content Window), and (5) Sort Bar of Content Pane if present.

F5

Refresh Explorer Window

F11

Toggle Full Screen

Alt+D

Jump/ focus Address Bar with content selected

Alt+D, then Ctrl+C

Copy current path

Alt+D, then c:(directory name}

With help of dropdown and Enter, select sub-directories. Note that the backslash is required for items in sub-directory to be visible.

Alt+D, then Alt+Down Arrow

Show previous locations

Alt+Up Arrow

Jump one level up

Alt+D , press and hold Alt then press Left Arrow, Right Arrow

Change focus from Address Bar to Folder Content (goes to previous/ next location and then changes focus to Folder Content; only works if a previous item is available)

You may want to add a custom location to the Explorer Addressbar. Assume you have your favorite applications in your u:apps drive. Do the following.
1. Open System Properties via Win+Pause/Break key.
2. Select 'Advanced System Settings (4th option on the left)
3. In the 'Advanced' Tab (3rd Tab on the Top), select 'Environemnt Variables' at the bottom
4. Select 'New'. Set Variable name to e.g. 'apps', variable value e.g. 'u:apps'.
5. Click 'ok'
6. Test in File Explorer via %apps%
To add a custom location to the Address Bar such as %apps%, do the following.

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Alt+D, then 2x Tab

Jump/ focus Navigation Pane

Arrow Up/Arrow Down

One item up/ down

Page Up/Page Down

One page up/ down

Home/End

Go to first itme/ last item

Ctrl+Arrow Up/Arrow Down

Scroll directory tree up/ down without changing focus

Arrow Left/ Right Arrow on tree parent

Open/ close directory tree

Shift+Arrow Left

Change to parent element in tree when in sub-element

5. Folder Content (Main Pane) - Navigate Files/ Folders

Alt+D, then 3x Tab

Jump/ focus Folder Content Pane

Alt+H, then SA

Select all items via Home, Select All. Also shorthand for changing focus to Folder Content

Arrow Up/Arrow Down

One item up/ down

Page Up/Page Down

One page up/ down

Home/End

Go to first itme/ last item

Ctrl+Arrow Up/Arrow Down

Scroll directory tree up/ down without changing focus

Shift+Arrow Up/Arrow Down

Select multiple (adjacent) items

Press and hold Ctrl, Arow Keys, and press Space on multiple items

Select multiple (non-adjacent) items

Alt+Arrow Left/Arrow Right

Go to previous/ next location

Alt+Up Arrrow

Up one level. There is no down one level, but you may use Alt+left to go to previous location

Alt+Enter on item

Show properties of file or folder

Shift+F10 on item

Open context menu of file or folder

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6. Folder Content (Main Pane) - Manage File/ Folders

Ctrl+Shift+N

Create new folder

Ctrl+C, Ctrl+X, Ctrl+V

Copy, cut, paste

Ctrl+Z

Undo an action

Ctrl+Y

Redo an action

Delete

Delete an item and place it into the Recycle Bin

Shift+Delete

Delete an item permanently without placing it into the Recycle Bin

F2

Edit Item. Select name excluding file extension

Alt+D, then 3x Tab

Jump/ focus Folder Content Pane (required for changing views with Ctrl+Shift+18

Ctrl+Shift+1

Change View to Extra Large Icons

Ctrl+Shift+2

Change View to Large Icons

Ctrl+Shift+3

Change View to Medium Icons

Ctrl+Shift+4

Change View to Small Icons

Ctrl+Shift+5

Change View to List View

Ctrl+Shift+6

Change View to Details View

Ctrl+Shift+7

Change View to Tiles View

Ctrl+Shift+8

Change View to Content View

Alt+V, then SF

Change View to Size Fit all items within column width

With focus anywhere, Alt+D, then 4x Tab, then Enter

Jump/ focus Sort Bar (Content Area Table Header)

With focus on Folder Content Pane, 1x Tab

Jump/ focus Sort Bar (Content Area Table Header). Use after changing sort order to change again.

Arrow Left/Right Arrow on Sort Bar

Select sort column

Press Enter on Sort Bar Item

Change sort order ascending (or descending) by name, date, etc.

After changing sort order, press Tab, then Enter

Change sort order descending (or ascending)

Created by max on 1/9/2021. Last updated by max on 1/10/2021

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