Playback with Pre-Roll

Thanks very much!

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Others who like the idea should UPVOTE this thread, it's the big number - upper left - by the thread name.

Thanks to everyone for the input and helping to clear up things up!  Glad to hear that there are others out there who agree that this would be a cool feature to add.

In the meantime, I thought I'd share the work around that I've gone with for any other Windows users who are interested.

This is a script I put together using AutoHotKey v2 (it's my first time using it, so I am definitely not an expert).

It's setup so that I just have to press 'F1' and it skips back 50 frames and then presses play.

AHK only works on Windows, but apparently you can do something similar on Mac using Keyboard Maestro.

It's a decent enough work around, but there are definitely some quirks.  Fingers crossed it get's implemented natively one day!

#HotIf WinActive("ahk_exe Adobe Premiere Pro.exe")


F1::
{
    Send("{Escape}")
    Sleep(5)
    Send("{NumpadSub}")
    Sleep(5)
    Send("{Numpad5}")
    Sleep(5)
    Send("{Numpad0}")
    Sleep(5)
    Send("{NumpadEnter}")
    Sleep(5)
    Send("{Space}")
}
#HotIf  ; Ends the context-specific hotkeys

Nice feature request. After I do a fine trim, I want to skip back and play through the cut to review it. A keyboard shortcut would be ideal for reviewing a cut. Much slicker than having to click the Timeline or use a workaround or a macro.

Upvoted.

Cheers,
Kevin

I gotta say, that would be a good feature:

"Playback with Preroll" - Jumps back the "Preroll" amount, and then plays.

So, "I + ctrl+space" does it for now. But it sets the inpoint.

Upvoted! 🙂

@MyerPj Exactly.

@R Neil Haugen For me it's just a quick way to review each change I make as I edit, whether that's swapping a clip, changing cut point, reframing etc. Before I would hammer Step Back Many Frames each time I made a change.

Also, I almost never want to start playback dead on an edit point, much prefer a little preroll.

Late to the party here, but I think your example of "Play Around" was a bit of a red-herring. You just want something to skip back 2 seconds and start playing. And that is from where the cursor happens to sit. Is that correct?

Yes, this would be a great feature that doesn't exist. It has been asked for and seems like it would be easy to implement but the workaround suggested don't exactly allow for this simple playback option. 

My personal workaround is to just hit something like - 6 0 0 (on the numeric keypad) and then space to play. But a single key for this would be great.

I'm puzzled at the use of this ... is it just to do a quick 'hit' on one cut point, then to move on?

Yeah, agree it'd be great if it were native.

Definately try it with the keyboard, I have mine set to 3seconds activated by the Tab key. Use it constantly. A few taps and you can quickly scrub back 6seconds without ever touching JKL or a mouse. 

@DJP2014 A macro is a great idea for a halfway house, thanks for the suggestion.  Given how many custom things I've programmed onto my StreamDeck, I don't know why I didn't think of it before!

That said, would still be great to have it as a native shortcut with in Premiere.  Mainly, so that it's on my keyboard rather than via another peripheral (or requiring third party software like AutoHotKey).

For anybody who's interested, here's the StreamDeck macro that I created (via Multi Action button).  Happy for others to tell me that there's a better way of doing it!

1.  Numpad -
2.  Numpad 5
3. Numpad 0
4. Numpad Enter
5. Spacebar

As I said, a good work around, but I would far rather see it natively!