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January 8, 2026

Toggle Direct Manipulation (Transform) deselects/disables when moving between clips

  • January 8, 2026
  • 7 replies
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After the 25.6 update, the "Toggle Direct Manipulation" tool (Transform) disables itself after moving forward 2 clips. 

 

My previous workflow was to select the program window, engage "Toggle Direct Manipulation" via a shortcut, then use the mouse to drag on the screen and reframe each individual clip. I'd then move forward and back between clips and between the first/last clip frames using keyboard shortcuts. From version 25.6 onwards I have to re-engage "Toggle Direct Manipulation" every time I move between 2 or 3 clips. Up to version 25.5, "Toggle Direct Manipulation" would remain engaged until I manually disengaged it. By trial and error I've found that if I lock the clip's audio track, the behaviour of the tool works as expected.

 

I've now gone back to version 25.5 and the behaviour of the tool is back to normal.

 

I'm on a M4 Pro Mac running Sequoia 15.7.3

7 replies

jamieclarke
Community Manager
Community Manager
January 22, 2026

Updating Status to Fixed in Premiere version 26.0

luis_4507Author
January 17, 2026

Great news, thank you very much!

jamieclarke
Community Manager
Community Manager
January 13, 2026

This issue has been fixed in Premiere Beta version 26.0 and will be included in the next release Premiere 26.0

jamieclarke
Community Manager
Community Manager
January 12, 2026

Hi @luis_4507 - Thank you for the screen recording and all of the information you have provided.  Thank you for reporting this. I was able to reproduce the issue and have filed a bug report. We’ll update this thread as soon as we have more information to share. 

luis_4507Author
January 12, 2026

Additionally, the "Toggle Direct Manipulation" tool should stay selected, even if you click on other windows, edit clips etc, it used to remain engaged until you turned it off. Forgot to mention. Thanks

luis_4507Author
January 9, 2026

Thanks for the reply. I click on the program window then either click on "Toggle Direct Manipulation" or use a keyboard shortcut to turn it on. I then use keyboard shortcuts for "Go To Next/Previous Edit Points" to quickly skip between all clips and use the mouse on the program window screen to reframe each individual shot. Since version 25.6, Toggle Direct Manipulation turns itself off after skipping a couple of clips, which is time consuming when I have to quickly go through hundreds of clips.

 

Locking the clip's audio track reverts the behaviour to that of the 25.5 version.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcaBjCrzErY 

jamieclarke
Community Manager
Community Manager
January 8, 2026

Hi @luis_4507 -  Thanks for submitting your bug report. We need a few more details to try to help with the issue.

 

Can you provide the exact steps you are taking? or provide a screen recording.

Sorry for the frustration.