Manually copy keyboard shortcuts between computers

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You can copy your customized keyboard shortcuts from one computer to another computer, or to another location on your computer, but not between WIN & MAC.

1. Save keyboard settings As.
2. Locate the keyboard shortcuts file (.kys) that you want to copy to another computer.

Signed into Creative Cloud Sync Settings
Win: Users\[user name]\Documents\Adobe\Premiere Pro\[version]\Profile-CreativeCloud-\Win\
Mac: Users/[user name]/Documents/Adobe/Premiere Pro/[version]/Profile-CreativeCloud-/Mac/

Signed out of Creative Cloud Sync Settings
Win: Users\[user name]\Documents\Adobe\Premiere Pro\[version]\Profile-username\Win\
Mac: Users/[user name]/Documents/Adobe/Premiere Pro/[version]/Profile-username/Mac/
[version] can be 7.0 , 8.0 or 9.0

At WNET signed in as regular user
\\thirteen.org\users\YourName\mydocuments\Adobe\Premiere Pro\9.0\Profile-yourname\Win\keyboard.kys
Or
Click on documents in side panel and search for “kys”

To copy the keyboard shortcuts file to a location on a different computer, copy the .kys file to a removable drive. Then, copy the .kys file from the removable drive to the same folder on the new computer.

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