Captain be good to go. Let's go over a few more shortcuts that I use on an almost daily basis that I think are really helpful for audio. The first are brackets. And these are the keys neck to the right of the P key on the keyboard. There's the close bracket and open bracket. And I'll just call them left and right on the keyboard.

When you have an audio clip selected, the bracket keys will affect this line. So if I do the right bracket, it moves this line up. left bracket moves it down. And that's a really quick way without having to navigate to anything else like your mouse to do this. And let's say we had some automation and we were listening along turns out this is too loud. If I select this point, then I can hit the left bracket, and it will just control that point.

If we want to bring everything up, we can select like this right bracket, and then it keeps that proportion of the faith and I drew. So it's quick and useful. Next has to do with the crossfade. And I showed you the crossfade in the last lecture, but there's a cool shortcut to be able to manipulate it. So first, let's do a music cut in the crossfade All right. Let's say our video needs to be shorter and we want to edit out one measure.

So we'll get into the concepts behind cutting music like this in another lecture, but I wanted what I want to show you here is the shortcut that I use to smooth it out. So let's listen. If you listen closely, you can hear a little bit of a click when it's right here. So naturally, you want to do a crossfade in our shortcut for crossfade on a Mac was Command Shift D. on Windows, it's Ctrl Shift D. Now let's listen. So I Didn't get the cut exactly right. If you hear if you listen, there's your two bass hits that are overlapping, because the crossfade.

So what I'm going to do now is select this part on the right, and I'm going to nudge it to the right one frame. And I do that by hitting, holding all and pressing period. Now I'm going to listen. So that was the wrong way it got worse. So you can press hold Alt, and press comma to go to the left. Now this is back to where we started.

I'm going to go one more to the left. And one more and worse again, so it's somewhere in there. Now sometimes when you cut music, no matter how close you try to get it without getting into the audio time units, which we'll go over, it's hard to get an exact But remember the all period and all comment, build a nudge left and right. What's great about this is a keeps any transitions you have. And now to kind of smooth this out, and so we don't hear two bass drums. a shortcut I love is normally when you adjust a crossfade it'll adjust it to both sides equally.

But if you hold Shift, you can adjust just one side. So now what I've done is I've told premiere to have this track, come on, fade on it over this time. And by the time it gets here, this track, this part doesn't exist anymore. Before there was this amount of time for this track to fade out. So by doing this, we should only hear one basic here. Great, and we're still getting some little overlap right here.

So if we hold shift and make this even smaller Perfect. So we just went over our shortcuts to get the crossfade. We used all and period and comments and nudge left and right and find the right cutting place. And then we use shift to be able to control to be able to control and adjust. Our crossfade. Last shortcut I want to show you for now is a tool called track select forward tool.

I didn't even know that I just remembered it by a sick hit a think about it a for all. And these are turns into arrows pointing to the right. And wherever you click, it's going to select everything to the right. If I had video up here and more audio down here, it would select absolutely everything that's under my cursor and to the right. What this allows you to do is let's say you you have a bunch of stuff all edited to the Music here, but you want to insert some more stuff here. Instead of trying to drag over everything individually, you can just hit a and slide it over, and everything that's around here will stay with it.

It all moves proportionately, and then you can add your sound bites here, then you can hit a again and drag it back. Alternatively, if you want to just select the music, let's say you have a bunch of video over here you want to want to leave, but you just want to select the music if you hold shift. If you hold shift and eight, or if you if you hit a and then hold Shift, see how the arrows go from two to one. That means it'll just select whatever track you're hovering over. So right here, I don't have anything. So if I had another song, I could hold a over here and it would just select But if I would hold shift and a over here, it just likes this