`60 Premiere — Keyframes` — what each control does
60 Premiere — Keyframes — what each control does
Seven keys need a one-time assignment in Premiere. Everything else works the moment you import the preset.
Control names are English throughout; the Russian Console labels are in brackets. Full name table: FORMAT.md §8.
1. Dragging clips — nothing to set up
The four Prime Four buttons send a held modifier: a mask with no key, held down for as long as the button is pressed. Left thumb holds it, right hand drags the clip.
| Button | Holds | Dragging a clip while held |
|---|---|---|
| Tall (Длинная) | Ctrl+Alt | Rearrange existing timeline clip — moves it and closes the hole behind |
| Side (Боковая) | Ctrl | Insert — neighbours ripple apart to make room |
| Top (Поперечная) | Alt | drags a copy, original stays |
| Short (Короткая) | Shift | constrain |
Premiere already reacts to these during a drag — no assignment needed.
2. Playhead and transport — nothing to set up
The D-pad moves the playhead and never touches a keyframe. That separation is deliberate: a keyframe step can never turn into a timeline scrub by accident.
| Control | Sends | Premiere does |
|---|---|---|
| D-pad ← / → | Left / Right | one frame back / forward |
| D-pad ↑ / ↓ | Up / Down | previous / next edit point |
| Dial (Диск) press | Space | play / stop |
| Scroll (Колесо) press | Shift+5 | focus the Effect Controls panel |
| C1 | Ctrl+Z | undo |
| C2 | Ctrl+Shift+Z | redo |
| Tour | Shift+Delete | ripple delete |
3. Keyframes — assign these seven, once
All three rotations act on the keyframe: find it, move it, change its value.
Premiere ships every one of these commands with no shortcut at all. That is the whole reason keyframes feel unreachable. F13–F19 exist on no physical keyboard, so nothing in Windows or Premiere competes for them.
| Control | Sends | Premiere command |
|---|---|---|
| Knob (Ручка) ← | F13 | Go to Previous Keyframe |
| Knob → | F14 | Go to Next Keyframe |
| Knob press | F15 | Add or Remove Video Keyframe |
| Dial (Диск) ← | F16 | nudge the selected keyframe one frame left |
| Dial → | F17 | nudge the selected keyframe one frame right |
| Scroll (Колесо) ← | F18 | nudge the selected keyframe value up |
| Scroll → | F19 | nudge the selected keyframe value down |
The first three names are exact. The four nudge commands were added in the June 2016 CC update and are worded slightly differently across versions — searching keyframe in the shortcut editor returns all of them together, and which is which is obvious from the name.
How to assign
- Edit → Keyboard Shortcuts (
Ctrl+Alt+K) - Type
keyframein the search box — all of these appear together - Double-click the shortcut field next to a command
- Turn the knob or press the button. The TourBox types F13 for you — you do
not need that key on your keyboard, which is exactly why it is free
- Repeat, then OK
Where they work
Go to Previous/Next Keyframe act on the Effect Controls panel and need it focused — that is what the Scroll press is for. Press it once, then the Knob steps through keyframes.
The one thing to decide while you are in there
The nudge commands act on the selected keyframe. Stepping onto a keyframe is not the same as selecting it — the playhead moves, the keyframe stays unselected, and Dial and Scroll then do nothing. This is the weak point of the preset and it is worth two minutes to resolve properly.
While the keyframe search results are on screen, look at what your version offers:
- If there is a command whose name contains Select (previous / next
keyframe), assign that to F13 and F14 instead of Go to. Then stepping and selecting are the same action and everything downstream works.
- If there is only
Go to, assign it as listed, and find a separate command that
selects the keyframe at the playhead. Give it a spare button — Tour is free if you do not need Ctrl+~.
- If neither exists, the Knob still navigates, but you will have to click the
keyframe once before the Dial and Scroll can move it.
Which of the three applies depends on the Premiere version, so it cannot be settled from here.
4. The clip-edge problem
Stepping to the next keyframe moves the playhead. At the last keyframe of a clip it crosses into the next clip, Effect Controls follows, and your parameters disappear.
Keep the clip selected. Effect Controls follows the selection, not the playhead, so a selected clip keeps showing its own keyframes even after the playhead leaves it.
The preset also keeps the two jobs apart: the rotations work on keyframes, the D-pad moves the playhead. A keyframe step never turns into a timeline scrub by accident.
5. Still not solved
- Ease In / Ease Out. Premiere does not expose these as assignable commands —
they live in the right-click menu on a keyframe. Nothing to bind. A Premiere limitation, not a device one.
- Dragging a bezier handle on a curve. That is a press-and-hold mouse drag,
which is not decoded — see FORMAT.md §9.
Scrubbing a value is solved, just not here: point at it and turn a rotary sending the mouse wheel. That is what 61 Premiere — Lumetri does, and the same trick works on Motion values in Effect Controls.
Sources for the command names: Adobe community — next/previous keyframe shortcut, Larry Jordan — new keyboard shortcuts in the June 2016 CC update, Adobe — default keyboard shortcuts