Premiere 25.6 Ripple Trim Sucks

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January 3, 2026
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I just wanted to voice my frustration with Adobe making Premiere more and more like DaVinci; first it was widenning the clips then adding borders to them and adding fx buttons etc simply taking up so much real estate, making it a chore to work with shorter clips. (I know where the fx panel is thanks)

And now the way ripple trimming works got this treatment making it a visual nightmare. I updated my Premiere Pro and started a project, I attempted to ripple trim a clip and it got ate up in real time like my patience with this company. Tbh I don't know, maybe Adobe making it easier to swtich to DaVinci is a blessing in disguise, but as it stands I hate the fact that I cannot see how much trimming I'm doing clearly and there's no indiciation as such whether my trim is snapping to the playhead or not -there is a marker however that's only showing at the very top of the payhead not on the clip. This sucks.

Adobe has been neglecting a lot of things and putting its focus on cosmetics that hardly improve its workflow if not making it worse. I'm not against change but I'm against the disconnect between me, a user, and Adobe who has been showing a lack of understadning of my needs in a way that can be discribed as dogmatic since they won't even have the curtosy to add options to customise these stupid feautres.

I plead with Adobe to add an option to opt out of the ripple trimming feature the same way I can choose whether the playhead snaps or not.

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Omer27585434zgsvAuthor

Participant

Hey ThioJoe, thank you for your reply and giving me tips for a better Premiere experience, I appreciate that. My issue with the snapping is let's say I place or stop the playhead at a point in a clip where I want to ripple trim to. When I select the ripple tool and start dragging the start of the clip to the playhead the only indication that I have reached that point is a grey triangle at the top. As you can see in the screenshot there's no snap mark where my cursor would be or on the clip I'm trimming. I'm aware of the Q and W shortcuts for this but I appreicated seeing how many frames I'm trimming and the duration, plus as mentioned in the thread you have linked the fact that the waveform is covered by this info box is frustrating. My concern is how lazy an implementation this feature comes as.

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ThioJoe

Community Expert

I know what you're talking about with the new "real time" updating and sliding of the clip with the ripple trim tool, and for what it's worth I don't like it myself.

I believe the largest discussion thread about that is this one: https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/the-ripple-edit-b-tool-no-longer-works-the-same-in-premiere-25-6/td-p/15603576

As for the point about snapping, are you trying to basically ripple trim from the playhead to the edge of the clip? Another option could be to just use the regular Add Edit hotkey to cut on the playhead, select the clip you want to ripple delete and use the Ripple Delete hotkey.

And if there's no clips on other tracks above or below you need to avoid trimming, you could use the "Ripple Trim Previous Edit to Playhead" and "Ripple Trim Next Edit to Playhead" (default Q and W). That will affect all tracks where "Sync Lock" is enabled (which it is by default on all tracks, it's one of the symbols to the left of the timeline).