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Inspiring
May 29, 2025
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Revert playhead to previous position

  • May 29, 2025
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Has this ever happened to you? You’re editing away, minding your own business, when BAM!—your playhead suddenly teleports to some other part of the timeline. Not because of a bug, but because you accidentally used the Up/Down arrow keys with the wrong track targeting, had something typed in the Transcript panel’s search box, or hit "Play In to Out" without meaning to.

 

What if there were a way—with a simple keyboard shortcut—to send your playhead right back to where it just was? Like a "go back" button for your timeline position.

 

 

Joking aside, that's basically what I’m pitching: a way to recall the playhead’s last stationary position. Although ideally, it could remember a short history of previous positions, just in case the playhead shifts again immediately after the first jump.

 

While it doesn’t come up all the time and the obvious answer is to just not make mistakes, it does happen, and it's always really frustrating when it does.

Having a shortcut like this would be a great way to smooth out the editing experience and keep the flow going.

1 reply

R Neil Haugen
Legend
May 29, 2025

Oh, I'd love a playhead history option!

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