[Now released] STOP SWITCHING TO THE NEXT CLIP WHEN I'M TRYING TO MANIPULATE KEYFRAMES

Hey guys, I know that the default behavior is annoying but there are some good workarounds for what you're going through.

1. To get more "padding" and see more to the left and right of the clip you're working on, right click the Effects Controls tab and uncheck Pin to Clip at the bottom of the drop down. This will let you zoom out the Effects Controls timeline to see the extra space you're talking about using the keyboard shortcuts you have for zooming in the main timeline. You only have to do this once per edit session and the window will behave this way for all clips, but yes, this ought to be the default behavior.

2. When jumping to the end of the clip with a keyboard shortcut, remember you're actually asking Premiere to jump the EDIT POINT, not the last frame of the clip, as Andrew pointed out. The Edit Point is the first frame of the next clip, so the app is doing what it's supposed to do.

Surely you have a keyboard shortcut to "Step back one frame." By default it's Left Arrow. So two quick shortcuts in a row: jump to edit point, playhead one frame left. I do it all the time by habit now. And remember you can change your keyboard shorts if you'd rather use different arrow keys.

I don't work for Adobe or anything, just an editor like you guys trying to solve the problems we can solve on our own and get back to work.

Yes, this is incredibly frustrating.

Fully agree! To add to this idea, the up and down arrow keys should also allow users to jump between the first and last frames in the EC window. Those keys work to jump to the first/last frame of a clip in the Timeline, so why not in the EC window? Using CTRL-Left/Right Arrow works for this, but the up/down arrows should as well, for convenience and simplicity's sake.

Furthermore, when jumping to the last frame of the clip (using CTRL-Right arrow), the Program Monitor should show the LAST FRAME of the clip that's CURRENTLY LOADED in the EC window, NOT jump to the next clip (or show a black frame if there is no other clip next to it). This is excruciatingly annoying and extremely bad program design.

Come on guys, PLEASE fix this once and for all! When jumping to clip's last frame in the EC window, there are precisely ZERO instances when an editor would ever want the next clip shown instead!

I agree with @Andrew about needing padding.

To add to this, there should be some padding around the clip boundaries in the keyframe window. So that we can clearly see where the end of the clip is, and where the last frame is. Just a small visual change but a big difference in usability.

To address moving to the next clip, just make it so that the playhead in the keyframe window will NEVER trigger selection of another clip, regardless of whether "Selection Follows Playhead" is enabled or disabled. Or, that it will not do so when the effect controls panel is active.

Sounds like you're putting the keyframe at the end of the clip instead of on the LAST FRAME of the clip, which is one frame back from the end of the clip itself. I do this a lot myself. When you just drag the keyframe to the end of the clip, it's putting it on the same frame as where the splice is, which is why it's showing the next clip, because that's the first frame of the next clip. Back your playhead up one frame, then move the keyframe to that frame.

Another solve for this is to uncheck Pin to Clip in the Effects Controls hamburger (three lines, panel) menu.

If Premiere is selecting clips while you scrubbing is because the option "Selection Follows Playhead" is activate. You can turn that off by clicking Sequence, Selectiong Follows Playhead.