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Fergus H
Community Manager
Community Manager
Jun 4, 2026 9:34 PM UTC

Now in Beta: toggle dynamic timeline updates

In 2025, we updated Premiere’s timeline to make edit operations dynamic. Previously, editing showed a static blue box, and the timeline only updated after you released the mouse. With the dynamic update, everything refreshes in real time as you edit.

 

Since that release, a small but passionate group of editors has let us know they strongly prefer the original, static behavior, especially when trimming. We want to extend a huge thank you to everyone who shared their feedback, and especially to those who hopped on video calls with us to deep-dive into their workflows.

 

We heard you loud and clear!

 

In the latest Premiere beta, we’ve added a new preference to give you control over this behavior. You can now toggle this feature via Preferences > Trim > Update timeline dynamically during ripple edits.

 

Here is a quick look at the setting in action. 

 

Please try it out and let us know your thoughts in the replies below. We look forward to hearing your feedback!

    9 replies

    Participant
    Jul 1, 2026 7:49 PM UTC

    Hi, i can’t find this “Update timeline dynamically during ripple edits”

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    Participant
    Jun 15, 2026 4:23 AM UTC

    This is exactly what I was looking for! Please make this an option for all! The new version of the ripple tool is so difficult to work with.

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    Participant
    Jun 11, 2026 3:16 AM UTC

    How long until this is out of Beta? For future releases and ‘great ideas’ you might want to consider adding an option to turn on/off in preferences from the start. Not everything a developer thinks is a great idea turns out that way for the people who pay for the app.

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    lbernier
    Known Participant
    Jun 5, 2026 1:51 PM UTC

    Thank you!! I tried to convinced myself I would get used to before upvoting previous request, but moths later it still was a friction point when trimming. I hope it will be intergated to the non beta version very soon.

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    Inspiring
    Jun 5, 2026 9:22 AM UTC

    Will there be an option of dynamically updating the timeline whilst trimming using the JKL keys? That would be really useful, as I’’m a big fan of live ripple trimming.  

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    Community Manager
    Jun 9, 2026 12:12 AM UTC

    Thank you for the feedback. This is something that the team is evaluating. I’ll keep you posted once we have updates.

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    Christine Steele
    Participating Frequently
    Jun 11, 2026 4:49 PM UTC

    Yes! This! I like it static when using Trim Edit view, but dynamic while trimming using key shortcuts. 🙏

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    Inspiring
    Jun 5, 2026 12:24 AM UTC

    thank you, this was definitely needed

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