Welcome to Device Tip Tuesday for Adobe Premiere Professional on ProVideo Coalition
I really like Substitute Edit. It’s a kind of “if I had simply recognized about this earlier” strategies of enhancing.
Recap – Alt/Possibility-drag replaces a shot. Fast, simple, carried out. If you happen to didn’t know, go attempt it now
Key element: it retains any current results. You’re actually simply changing content material—colour correction, results, no matter you’ve constructed stays intact.
One word: how does it determine the place to begin?
The substitute begins at your in-point. Watch out once you don’t have one—it’ll begin on the playhead, which is ok for swapping, however you received’t have any handles at the beginning for transitions.
Let’s do higher. This week, we’re taking a look at Substitute from Bin.
Map it first
Proper-click any clip in your Challenge panel. “Substitute With Clip from Bin” is sitting there, unmapped.
Open Keyboard Shortcuts (Command/Ctrl+Possibility/Alt+Ok), search “from Bin,” and provides it a house. I map mine to Ctrl+R—one thing across the letter R made sense.
Primary utilization
Choose a clip in your bin. Choose a clip in your bin. Hit your mapped key. Accomplished.
New clip drops in with the very same length. All of your results keep utilized.
Key element: Your timeline clip should be chosen, and the timeline needs to be the energetic window (blue define) once you use the keyboard shortcut (over right-clicking a clip on the timeline)
Sensible utilization
Now that you just perceive it’s use, the sensible method it really works looks like this:
- Shift+1 – Select a clip within the Bin.
- Shift+3 – Choose a clip in your timeline. Bear in mind, the timeline HAS to be energetic for the keyboard shortcut to work.
- Ctrl+R – Substitute from Bin.
As much as you if you wish to make a macro. I do.
Now it’s loopy quick to have a bin stuffed with doable B-roll clips and swap them rapidly for a shot on the timeline.
Remaining ideas
Swapping clips from a bin of comparable footage? Piece of cake.
Attempt some variations – for instance: totally different takes of an interview chunk—drop all of your selects in a bin, minimize one into the timeline, then substitute your method by the choices till you discover the one which lands. Secret’s to set the in level earlier than the identical phrase within the totally different takes.
Or swapping out stills.
Subsequent week: Substitute from Supply. Comparable thought, however centered on the Supply clip – a monitor that you just’re probably not utilizing properly sufficient.
This collection is courtesy of Adobe.

