Adding U to the Mix

We’re on day two of an all-week workflow lesson, and today’s simple shortcut builds on yesterday’s, so you may want to review that one first by clicking here. Our shortcut du jour is U:

Once you have an edit point selected, hitting U repeatedly will allow you to cycle through the three types of edit point selection: both sides (the outgoing clip’s out-point and the incoming clip’s in-point), just the outgoing clip’s out-point or just the incoming clip’s in-point. That’s certainly a mouthful, so check out the animation (to the right) to see what I mean.

Note that if you have “linking” turned on, you video and audio clips’ edit points will all be selected and the “auto select controls” will also apply here when you do not have linking on or if you want to select edit points on tracks other than V1 (we discussed that yesterday and you can read more here).

Try V and U today and burn ‘em into your mind. They are the foundation for some killer moves yet to come. V. U. VU.  Déjà VU? Very Useful? Vanderbilt University? The Velvet Underground? Also, did you ever notice how the most important, powerful shortcuts tend to be the simple single-key ones? Note that yesterday’s V and today’s U are both single-strokers. Food for thought.