Classroom in a book

2
Shift-click the three clips that make up the first segment—Title 01, nested 
complete, and Medieval_wide_01—to select them.
3
Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) the selected clips, and 
choose Nest.

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The three clips are collapsed to a single nested clip. Play the clip to see that the 
nest contains the three clips.
4
In the Effects panel, click the Video Transitions folder to open it, and then 
click the 3D Motion subfolder. Drag the Cube Spin transition to the edit point 
between the two clips.
Adobe Premiere Pro has more than 100 keyboard shortcuts. You won’t use all of 
them, but about 25 should become part of your repertoire. You can customize them 
and create additional ones to suit your needs.
To get an idea of just how vast the shortcut opportunities are, choose Edit > 
Keyboard Customization. Not surprisingly, that opens the Keyboard Customization 
dialog, shown here.
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 Note:
To edit a 
nested set of clips, 
double-click the 
nested sequence in the 
Timeline. The nested 
sequence becomes the 
active sequence, which 
you can edit.

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LESSON 16
Working with Color, Nested Sequences, and Shortcuts
Note that the Adobe Premiere Pro Factory Defaults list includes the main menu 
headings: File, Edit, Project, and so on. You can open each of those lists and find 
commands that match virtually everything available in the menus.
Many mimic standard system-level shortcuts:
F U N C T I O N
W I N D O W S M A C
O S
Save
Ctrl+S
Command+S
Copy
Ctrl+C
Command+C
Undo
Ctrl+Z
Command+Z
Adobe Premiere Pro has three sets of keyboard shortcuts: the factory defaults and 
sets for two competing products, Avid Xpress DV 3.5 and Final Cut Pro 4.0. The 
latter two facilitate migration from those products to Adobe Premiere Pro.
You can create a fourth, custom set of shortcuts. The more you work with Adobe 
Premiere Pro, the more you’ll want to do that. Here’s how: