P: [Production] Timeline panel focus switches to Project panel after paste in sequence

Just a quick one to say that this bug is also an issue for me (Mac Studio // Prem 25.2.3 Build 4)..

Also.. the 'related thread' link that @7274694_V posted just links back to this thread.

When working in productions, copying from one timeline in one project and pasting to another timeline in another project sometimes results in a panel shift to another random panel. This doesn't happen everytime, but often enough to be really annoying. I paste into a timeline, then hit the up or down arrow keys or any other short cut and wonder why the playhead isn't moving until I realize the focus has shifted to the effects panel, or audio clip mixer, or the project panel. I have found certain clips the reproduce this issue with every copy/paste, and can provide in reduced project to demonstrate if someone at Adobe wants to take a look. 

I posted about this years ago in the Discussion forum and it is still happening. @Kevin-Monahan suggested posting here as well. Thanks.

Hi @Dani_V. , thanks for following up.

1. Yes - this is happening within the same sequence. No other sequence exists in the project.
2. The focus seems to follow the panel group where the project panel lies. To confirm this, I moved my Project tab, which was in the upper left panel group, down to the lower left panel group, along with the Production tab. The focus change, once triggered, moved from upper left to lower left... Moving the project panel back to upper left, the focus change followed it as well. 
3. Regarding IN+OUT triggering this or not... Interesting question. I've seen it do it with and without, after extracting and shift+inserting and by copying + pasting as well. But testing this out first thing this morning, it seems that YMMV and there's a weird trigger factor that I can't identify... On my end, I think the definite trigger factor is to make your selection, mark it, and with the selection still active, perform a cut or extraction. Upon pasting / inserting, the focus change occurs. So if you are working with "Selection follows playhead" and you are marking / extracting / re-inserting your clips (again, doing this quickly with hotkeys), the bug occurs pretty much every single time.

But the weird point is that once the bug has been seen, it can be triggered without having IN/OUT set, and that's where I can't ID the trigger factor. But I'll have it happening upon manually selecting a clip (or clips), doing a cut/copy/extract and then pasting or paste-inserting...

Tested 1st thing this am:

Launch project

Open sequence, select segment (no IN+OUT)

Copy or Cut selection (with hotkey)

Move cursor where I want to paste or insert the selection

Paste or insert (with hotkey)

===> NO focus change, all good

Select segment(s)

Mark IN + OUT on the selection (hotkey) to be extracted or copied

Move cursor where the segments are to go

Shift + insert (hotkey) or paste (hotkey)

===> Focus change...

Now, repeating the 1st step more or less

I can trigger the problem without IN/OUT if I initially CUT or Extract the selection. Then, either a Paste or Shift+Insert operation will initiate the focus change.

HTH,

Alain

Hi @Alain D.,

Thank you for submitting a bug report.

To clarify, you are copying from the same sequence and not from a separate one, correct?

Does this happen only with the Project panel? What happens if you have a different tab/panel open in that panel group or if that panel is closed?

Have you noticed if this happens without any 'In + Out' points selected?

Sorry for the frustration,
Dani