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title: '10 Adobe Premiere Hacks That Will Save You Hours Editing'
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date: 2026-07-31
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# 10 Adobe Premiere Hacks That Will Save You Hours Editing

> Source: [10 Adobe Premiere Hacks That Will Save You Hours Editing](https://youtube.com/watch?v=BydUH2VgjPQ)

## Summary

Premiere Pro offers a range of powerful editing hacks that can dramatically cut down production time, from batch exporting and auto-editing transcriptions to scene detection and background removal. In this video, the creator demonstrates 10 practical Premiere Pro hacks plus two honorable mentions, with a special focus on automation, customization, and mobile-friendly tools.

### Key Points

- **Multi-video timeline editing** [00:27] — Edit several videos in one timeline by organizing raw footage, graphics, photos, and screenshots into bins. Use in/out points (I and O keys) to export each video separately.
- **Batch export with Media Encoder** [02:45] — Queue multiple exports by going to File > Export > Send to Media Encoder, set output files, then press play to export a whole module or batch of videos at once.
- **Metricool for scheduling and analytics** [03:54] — The sponsor Metricool serves as an all-in-one social media planning, analytics, and scheduling platform with an Adobe Express integration. Use code Modern Millennial for a 30-day premium trial.
- **Custom keyboard shortcuts** [05:53] — Use shortcuts like C (cut), V (selection), H (hand), T (text), S (magnet), Q/W (delete left/right), Space (play), Ctrl+Z (undo), and +/- (zoom). Customize shortcuts in Premiere > Keyboard Shortcuts, e.g., map ripple delete to F.
- **Auto-edit with transcription** [08:28] — Select a talking-head clip, press Transcribe, then use filters to select and delete pauses or filler words. You can also delete text in the transcript to edit the timeline.
- **Scene edit detection** [10:08] — Right-click imported footage, choose Scene Edit Detection, then apply a cut at each detected cut point and analyze to automatically separate different angles from screen recordings or phone clips.
- **Morph cut for jump cuts** [11:21] — Apply the Morph Cut transition (under Video Transitions > Dissolve) to smooth jump cuts in talking-head footage. It works best with similar framing; can become blurry with hand movements.
- **Background removal with object mask** [13:04] — Select the clip, use the Object Mask tool, hover and select objects to keep, then track forward/backward in Effect Controls and drag the mask to Opacity to remove the background.
- **Text behind subject** [14:28] — Duplicate the top clip with Alt+drag, remove the background on the duplicate, press T to add text, position it, then swap the layers so text appears behind the person.
- **Scrolling phone effect** [15:41] — Create a phone mockup in Canva, insert your screen recording, export and remove the background, duplicate the clip, add the screen recording to the mockup, and set blend mode to Multiply for a behind-you scrolling effect. You can also do this with typing.
- **Adjustment layer for color grading** [17:02] — In the Project panel, right-click > New Item > Adjustment Layer, drag it to layer two above all clips, then apply color/HSL adjustments to the adjustment layer—everything underneath is affected at once.
- **Honorable mentions: generative extend & enhance speech** [18:22] — Generative extend uses AI to add two extra seconds to the beginning or end of a clip. Enhance speech dramatically improves audio, especially on the Premiere Pro mobile app.

### Conclusion

Premiere Pro is packed with powerful automation and customization features that can save editors hours of manual work. Mastering these hacks—from transcription-based cutting to adjustment layers—lets creators focus on storytelling rather than repetitive tasks.

## Transcript

know existed series for over 5 years now. We have done Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, CapCut, and now whether you're editing long-form or short-form videos, these are 10 Adobe Premiere Pro editing hacks you may not have known existed.
We're talking Adobe's ability to auto edit a video for you or how to place text behind you because I get that question a lot and of course at the end I'll have a few honorable mentions. As always, timestamps are below, use them
if you need them. Let's jump in. Hack number one, we're going to be editing multiple videos in one timeline. So you can actually edit multiple videos at once within a timeline and the best way to do this is just making sure you have
the organization set up from the very beginning. All right, so let's focus down here. Usually I have my raw footage that I filmed in a raw folder. I have graphics for screen recordings or even any other overlays, photos that I'm
going to be popping up, screenshots that are going to pop up. This is our sequence, so the timeline that we're in right now. It's called March short-form content. And if we zoom out on this sequence, you're actually going to see
that I have three different videos all in one timeline. So this is video one, this is video two, this is video three. You can organize your footage however rename this like video one, video two, video three or have different bins for
that, you just right click, press new your footage. This way just works well for me. And to export these videos separately, all you'd have to do is adjust the in and out points. So where
it's going to export starting from and where it's going to end. For example, if I wanted to export this middle video, I'm just going to go to the beginning of the video and we're going to zoom in on our timeline. I'm going to press I for
the in point. We're going to make sure this toggles right at the beginning of the clip and then we're going to go to the out and press O and then make sure this snaps to the end of that frame. So now you could see we have like the in
and the out points set. So that when you go to file and export or when you go to export this video here. When I have example, my course content when I'm editing my course videos for one full
module that might have five to 10 videos within a module, so like lesson one, lesson two, lesson three. I actually edit all lessons in one place and then I'll have like module one here in a tab and then module two in a second tab,
module three in a second tab. And I feel like for me that just keeps everything so much more organized and when it's all condensed that way instead of like this is just one video and then you have a new tab for another video. So that is if
you're juggling editing multiple videos at once, you can actually do that within one timeline. Hack number two is an export hack. So when I am on a roll with editing, usually with my course content, sometimes I'll actually queue my exports
Premiere Pro. This is something that I do when I want to move on to my next project while another one is exporting or when I'm editing all of my course videos, I'll just get them all lined up in like a batch export and then export
one whole module at once. So if I wanted to batch export all three of these videos on our timeline, let's just adjust the in and out points. I would go to file, export, send to Media Encoder
and then our Media Encoder will pull up. I'm going to do that with each of our videos. So now we open Media Encoder and then you could make sure you're adjusting the output file, make sure they're exporting to the proper place
and then when you're ready, you just press play and all videos will start exporting for you. I personally love batching, batching literally everything. I batch export so that it makes it easier for me to then batch upload and
schedule my content out to Instagram, YouTube and TikTok. For scheduling all of my content, my team and I actually use Metricool who's also the sponsor of this video. If you're somebody who's already spending hours into editing your
own content, the last thing you probably want to do is manually repurpose each and every one of those two post to Reels and then upload to TikTok and then upload to YouTube Shorts. It's like the most tedious thing that nobody really
somebody on my team who was responsible for manually posting each video to Reel, TikTok and Shorts. I don't even know why we were doing that for so long, but we actually switched to using Metricool and not only have we been able to save so
harder, but we've actually been able to allocate that person's energy and attention to tasks that are now actually helping the business grow instead of repurposing each video every single day.
Metricool has been our preferred all-in-one platform for planning, analyzing and managing all social media platforms. And last year they actually partnered with Adobe so that you can now create visual content straight to from
Metricool without needing to switch tabs or open new tools. Let me actually show you. So for example, if my team and I, we had a carousel that we wanted to do, they can simply start creating and designing the carousel in Metricool
using the Adobe Express integration and get the post scheduled or then set to be approved by me. What I've always loved about Metricool is that it acts as more than a scheduler. You could also see analytics about your social media posts,
best time to post, how your content is performing across platforms without needing to like bounce between apps. You could see analytics for everything all in one place. Metricool works whether you're a solo creator or working with a
team. So if you're interested, I will leave a link below where you can start leave a link below where you can start using it. Plus, if you want to try out their premium plan for free for 30 days, you could use code Modern Millennial.
Hack number three is customizing keyboard shortcuts because so far in our first two hacks, I was using keyboard shortcuts, showing you some keyboard shortcuts and that's how hack three is going to make editing on Adobe 10 times
quicker for you. Not only just knowing the keyboard shortcuts that exist, but also knowing how to customize them based on the tools that you're using the most when you are in your editing flow so that you can quite literally
single-handedly edit a video. For me, when I'm editing, if I could literally just do all the work with my left hand and then keep my right hand on the mouse, that's going to make me a happy camper. So my favorite
make me a happy camper. So my favorite shortcuts is C for cut, V for then back shortcuts is C for cut, V for then back to the regular mouse, H to drag my timeline around. We also have the text tool. So if I press T, I can then add
tool. So if I press T, I can then add text anywhere. You have S which is the text anywhere. You have S which is the magnet. This just kind of helps snap your clips into place. If I wanted to like drag this clip and line it up
directly with this one, right now I'm kind of like guessing where to put it, but if I have S for the magnet turned on, it'll automatically magnetize those two clips together. So I like to leave the magnet on for quick trimming or
cutting while editing. If let's say I want to keep this little throw that I do. If I want to start my clip here, if I want to delete everything to the left, I'm going to press Q and now everything to the left is gone. When I press play,
which is spacebar, and if I want it to end here, I'm going to now press W and it'll delete everything to the right. Now my main clip is the throw. Control Z is undo. To zoom in and out of the timeline, we have minus is out, plus is
in. So knowing those shortcuts obviously makes editing so much quicker. If you want to customize your shortcuts, we are going to go to Premiere, keyboard shortcuts and then the one that I have customized is ripple delete. So you're
going to search for the tool that you want and you're just going to like drag and drop it onto whatever key that you want replaced. So I replaced the F key. I don't remember what it was before, but I wanted ripple delete to be
my F key. So now with F, if I just want to delete this, I could press F and it deletes for me. I feel like that is easier than having to like lift my hand up and backspace. So I just keep everything left-handed and customizing
those shortcuts make a big difference. Okay, now we're getting into the juicy stuff, the fun stuff. Did you know that Premiere Pro could basically auto edit a but I never tried it myself because I was like, I don't want to learn
>> I'm just going to do it the old way. But then I actually like took 2 seconds to as hard as I thought." So let me show you two ways that Adobe auto edits for going to show you is with a talking head clip. This is our talking head videos.
we're going to select the clip that we want to edit and press transcribe. So now using their AI, they're going to just auto transcribe my talking head footage and then the fun
part, we're actually going to go here where it has the filter and we're going to select pauses. And now it is clip where there's like a long or extended pause and I'm just going to
press delete and we're going to delete all. And as you can see, it auto cut all of my footage right here. You could also do that for filler words. So you could look for filler words and any filler words that are there, it will detect and
then you could delete those as well. Now the cool thing is now that it's transcribed, I can easily skim through this transcription to see where I'm anything in the transcription, it'll also edit my timeline. So let's see.
Let's see where this video start. So I'm just going to get rid of here where you just going to press delete, and it's going to automatically delete it. So, honestly, all of this could also go. So, again, we're just skimming through our
anything that's duplicates, and now we could easily edit our video within Adobe. Hack number five is another auto editing feature, but this time it's not for talking head. This time, let's import a new video. So, this video is
phone. So, on your phone, I don't know if you guys know you could do this, but could actually pause your recording, and then play your recording while you're recording. So, these are just the different angles that I got in one
could do is I could click on this, right click, and go to scene edit detection. I'm going to just say apply a cut at each detected cut point, press analyze,
and now Adobe, they're analyzing my clips to see any time the scene changed, so it could auto cut for me. As you can see here and here are two different happened. So, now I don't have to like skim through my footage and do that
myself. Now, all these clips are easily separated out for me, and I could rearrange them however I like. If you've learned one new thing so far, be sure to going to tell YouTube that other creators like yourself find this video
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morph cuts. Now, this one, it works sometimes, it doesn't work other times. I'll show you best scenarios in which it works, but basically, let's say in a talking head video, there's like this big jump cut, right? Between this clip
and this clip, you can tell that it's a brand new clip, but with morph cut, AI will kind of like create its own transition, so that jump cut doesn't look as obvious. I think it could work for this one because my hand is in the
similar spot, and so I think a morph cut could work here. Whereas, like if it was really close and I'm really far back, morph cut might not work well there, but let's see if it works here. So, we are going to go to effects, to video
dissolve, and we're going to apply the morph cut right here. It's going to analyze, and then seamlessly merge everything together in a way. Okay, let's watch it back. You see how like my hand gets
blurry? It's like trying to transition my hand. So, that's kind of where morph cut comes in. Works well sometimes, sometimes it doesn't. For me, I notice talking head videos where it's not so much hand animation. You all know AI,
and it does not do well with hands, but when I have like my talking head footage and it's just like my face, the transition of like my mouth moving, it gets pretty close sometimes. So, a morph cut can help with those natural
transitions. Next hack is going to be background removal because I know so background removal because I know so many people use that on CapCut and have editing solutions because they're like, "I don't want CapCut to own my footage
anymore." So, you can actually do background removal in Adobe as well, and background removal in Adobe as well, and it's not as complicated as maybe it used to be, but what you're going to do is select the clip that you want to remove
the background for. We're going to find the object mask tool select, and now you're just going to hover your mouse on like your video, and you're going to select the things that you want to keep, and then everything else will be
removed. For this, again, it's going to work best if you have a simple background behind you. So, I'm going to keep me, and I also want to keep my cup and maybe this handle, too. So, I'm going to keep this part. Then, we're
going to go to effect controls. Under tracker, we want to make sure the mask that we just selected, it is through the whole clip. So, we're going to press track forward and track backwards. So, now AI is like tracking the object that
to follow it forwards, and then we're going to do select backwards. And now, this mask that we just created, we're just going to drag and drop it down to opacity, and as you could see, now the whole background has been removed. This
that one thing, it's going to be the foundation for so many other edits and hacks and things that you could do within your content to up-level your video editing. For example, our next hack, which is adding text behind you.
This is the question that I get all the dang time, so let's do this together. dang time, so let's do this together. Now, we are going to duplicate this top clip. So, this top clip is the video, the bottom half is our audio. We just
need the video. We're going to hold down alt, and then just drag your mouse up top. Now, you have the clip duplicated, and then with our top clip, we are going to remove our background. So, follow those same steps. You can't tell, but
the background is removed. What we're going to do is press T to then add our text, and then we're going to have our text go right over these clips. And now, let's customize our text. I'm just going to say test test test. Rearrange
your text however you like, and then we're just going to swap these two layers. So, I'm actually going to move this one down and this one up. And now, our text is behind us. Being able to remove the background from a shot opens
that you could do when editing. I'm going to show you another one that you This is one of my personal favorites that I don't use often, but I love when
creators are doing it, and that's like that scrolling on phone effect. So, we want to make sure that you have a screen recording of your phone scrolling cuz
background. We're going to go into Canva. We're going to just create a mock-up. We're going to use this mock-up, and we're going to put in our going to use here. That's the screen recording of me scrolling, and once it's
done processing, we're just going to export this, remove the background. We're going to do the same thing where we press alt, duplicate, get these separated. This is the one that we are going to do background removal for.
Background is removed. Now, we're going to add our screen recording into the picture, and then adjust to fit the frame how you'd like. And then, what I frame how you'd like. And then, what I like to do is blend mode multiply. And
now, it's kind of like behind you scrolling. And that's how you could add You could also do this with typing. So, if you screen record your phone, yourself typing, you could then add the typing on screen behind you within
Adobe. Okay, our final hack is being able to put an adjustment layer onto all of your clips within a video. For some, this might be like a, "Oh, yeah, I knew that." But, if you didn't know this, you're like, your mind is going to be
blown. So, what I mean by this, let's say you want to color grade your footage, and you're here, you're under the coloring, you've already done, you pressed auto, and it's looking good. You've adjusted the temperature, you
love everything, or even if you have like specific HSL adjustments where you everything perfect. And then you're like, "Oh, great. Now, I need to like copy paste all of these adjustments onto each clip, and then make sure they're
all consistent throughout." You don't have to do that at all. So, what you're going to do is in your project panel, you're going to right click, press new item, and you're actually just going to
simply add an adjustment layer. You're going to keep the dimensions of your video, and with this adjustment layer that you've added, you're just going to simply drag and drop it as layer two, and then you click on the adjustment
grading on this adjustment layer, and it's going to edit basically everything that's underneath it. So, if I adjust this layer with the auto, everything you
just see just adjusted, and that applies to all clips throughout. Now, I do have two honorable mentions that I just want to briefly touch on, and that is generative extend and enhance speech. Generative extend is basically Adobe's
Generative extend is basically Adobe's new AI tool, which adds two new seconds to the beginning or end of a clip, even if you don't have that footage yourself. So, like for me, I can't extend this clip any further because that's when I
pressed record. That's the moment my phone started recording, but what I could do using the generative extend tool, if I just drag this out, Adobe is going to basically use AI to extend my footage two extra seconds, and sometimes
those two extra seconds helps a ton. And then, the other tool that I wanted to do an honorable mention for is enhance speech. Now, enhance speech, if you that I don't shut up about this because particularly, I love this on the Adobe
Premiere Pro mobile app. Most of the time when I'm filming short-form content, if I'm using my phone, I don't have a mic with me. And so, directly in the Premiere Pro mobile app, I'll just upload the footage, use enhance speech,
and the audio difference is insane. They also have enhance speech in the desktop. So, if you just right click and go to enable enhance speech, they have that
option here, but for some reason, like it just is so so so good on the mobile editor. It's good here, too. Don't get me wrong, but real honorable mention goes to the mobile app. So, I am curious of all of the hacks that you learned
today, comment down below which one was the one that stood out to you the most. Maybe it blew your mind. Maybe it was something you didn't even know existed. Let me know down below. And if you're curious about what a part two would be,
whether that's using the mobile app or even a part two on desktop, let me know interested in seeing and what sort of hacks that you would like to see specifically in a part two. Thank you so much for watching and I'll see you in
much for watching and I'll see you in the next one. Follow your joy. Bye.