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January 14, 2026
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Option to disable the Trim Edit view when selecting multiple edit points

  • January 14, 2026
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Hi there,

Would it at all be possible to add a toggle to disable the Program Monitor from automatically entering Trim Edit mode when multple edit points are selected (ie. by holding Ctrl and dragging across multiple edit points). Selecting edit points individually while holding control doesn't force this mode, it would be great if we could extend this as an option when you drag and select multiple.
This mode isn't really useful in my workflow and often acts as nothing but a hinderance - it can be slow to swap back and forth in large timelines which I generally exclusively work in, and forces your play/stop toggle to turn into the "play around" functionality presumably to see changes to any trims - this however is just never really what I want in my workflow and is a little annoying if I've tried to exit the trim mode and it doesn't register for whatever reason.

 

I'm generally selecting multiple edit points to simply add a default fade transition between multiple lavs then moving on, I generally do not need to preview my changes - however with this mode forcing itself it requires me to add extra interactions before I can resume playback like normal.

I know the user can hold shift and select all tracks, then apply a default transition to get most of the same functionality, but this has some drawbacks vs being more specific and only selecting specific edit points.

 

A simple on/off toggle in the "Trim" preferences would go a long way I feel.