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Now in beta: toggle dynamic timeline updates

Forum|Forum|7 days ago
June 4, 2026
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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!

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jamesr76006279

Participant

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.

lbernier

Known Participant

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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Fazy25

Inspiring

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.