The Editor’s Toolkit

Keyboard shortcuts, color correction and grading, LUTs, frame rates, codecs and folder structure for Adobe Premiere and DaVinci Resolve. Two complete keyboard maps included.

Adobe Premiere
DaVinci Resolve
Windows & macOS

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Cover of The Editor's Toolkit, a free PDF for Adobe Premiere and DaVinci Resolve with a keyboard illustration

17PAGES

What's inside

Everything you reach for while editing, in one file

JKL

Ctrl/CmdShiftK

Shortcuts and workflow

The keys that matter, how to hold your hands and how to build a layout you keep.

10 shortcuts to learn first
J-K-L shuttle
Hand position
Remap by location
Build your own layout
Common mistakes

LIFT

GAMMA

GAIN

Color

What every control does, where correction ends and grading starts, and how LUTs fit in.

Hue, saturation, tint
Color wheels
RGB parade
Correction vs grading
Technical and creative LUTs

243060FPS

Frame rates and delivery

Which rate to shoot, how slow motion works and what to export for YouTube.

Frame rate guide
Slow motion chart
Codecs and bitrate

CLIENT_PROJECT

01_FOOTAGE

02_AUDIO

06_EXPORTS

Organization and maps

A folder structure you can reuse, plus two complete keyboard maps.

Folder structure
Adobe Premiere map
DaVinci Resolve map

Look inside

A few pages from the toolkit

Two full keyboard maps close the guide, one for Adobe Premiere and one for DaVinci Resolve, with Windows and macOS keys on every shortcut.

Project folder structure page from The Editor's Toolkit, one root folder per project with numbered subfolders — Project folder structure

Where your hands should rest page from The Editor's Toolkit, left hand on Q W E A S D and right hand on J K L — Where your hands should rest

Color correction basics page from The Editor's Toolkit with hue and saturation bars, lift gamma gain color wheels and an RGB parade — Color correction basics

Full Adobe Premiere keyboard shortcuts map from The Editor's Toolkit with Windows and macOS keys — Adobe Premiere keyboard map

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