19 Editing Hacks I’ve Collected Over 10 Years
In this video, I reveal the tricks I've gleaned over 10 years of working as a YouTube video editor in Premiere Pro 2026. AI isn't yet capable of providing anything useful for real-world commercial video editing jobs, so I still have to work manually. Thanks to these tricks, I've been able to increase my editing speed so much that I can't imagine what else I could use to edit videos faster.
My pager: https://t.me/vitaliy_loza
Arrow - https://knightsoftheeditingtable.com/...
Dagger - https://knightsoftheeditingtable.com/...
Portal - https://knightsoftheeditingtable.com/...
Timecodes:
0:00 — What this video is about
00:27 — Arrow plugin
01:35 — How to easily take screenshots
01:53 — Fill frame
02:28 — Excalibur
03:00 — How to quickly reverse a clip
03:38 — Dagger (similar to Excalibur)
04:13 — Portal
04:33 — Creating a template blank project
06:13 — Simplifying work with template footage
07:34 — Adjusting the length of audio transitions
07:54 — Creating your own preset animations, etc.
09:22 — Setting up graphic thumbnails
10:05 — How to quickly find a file's location on the timeline
10:47 — Pasting while holding down ALT
11:22 — Pasting with an offset
11:46 — How to quickly change a label
12:18 — How to quickly change the volume of sounds or music
12:50 — How to make posterize time so it doesn't overload your computer
13:20 — How to hide cuts using one-key zoom