Timeline Snap options

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
January 24, 2023
35 replies
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Right now the timeline Snap feature has no options - it works for all assets, and clips snap not to each other, but to TRANSITIONS, leaving gaps and unsynced layers, it's very annoying. Users have to manually check every clip for whether it snapped to other clip's border, or to it's transition border.

It would be great to have an option to disable Snap for transitions or for keyframes or for other types of assets, like we have in "Snap to" feature in Effect Controls panel.

Link to the discussion on Adobe forums https://forums.adobe.com/message/10377154

Editing and Playback

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katpro23

Participant

I have this issue too!!! Even when there is no transition or anything else to snap to, more often than not, it snaps to 1 or 2 frames away from the cut, not to the cut!!! It drive me insane! What's the point of snap if it doesn't even snap to the actual cut?! It boggles the mind. I swear it never used to do this, I've only noticed it probably since the last update. Completely senseless.
And yeah, snapping to transitions is also useless and extremely frustrating.

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Chairman_MAO3033538

Participant

Yes. Please give us the option to turn "snap to transition" on/off. I still have to use this software at work, but you have already lost me as a personal customer. I use Resolve at home.

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fredrik78847280

Inspiring

No need for snapping to Transitions.

I would like to haven an short-cut option for turning on or off snap only while holding that key. In Avid it's alt or opt key. I could imagine if combined with a second key for example 'shift' it could temporarly activate more options to be defined in preferences like snap to "others" what could be transitions or other non active edits or whatever.

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Isaac29717554nnca

Participant

Absolutely no reason to snap to trantions. Ever. Please remove.

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Letizia5E17

Participating Frequently

I STILL NEED IT!!!

TheVisionaryOne

Participant

It's bewildering that there is STILL no way to at least disable snapping to transitions. Timeline snapping is one of the most basic needs for any editor. When it comes to editing, precision is a must, and time is money. For any editing workflow that uses transitions, the time for each edit goes up exponentially, purely because of the useless snap to transition behavior.

99.9% of the time, there is no good reason to snap to transitions. It shouldn't even be part of the default snap functionality in the first place. To be fair, Premiere Pro (and Photoshop) have received some impressive new features as of late, but this one is seriously overdue. We need the ability to disable snapping to transitions, and ideally, snap to markers as well. Full customization of snap behavior in the Preferences menu needs to be added. As soon as possible.

Nick Lear

Inspiring

I would love to turn off snap to transitions!

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Ben5E36

Participant

I edit podcasts regularly and this ridiculous 'bug' forces me to not only deal with the hassle of zooming to bypass the transition snap but I have to double check EVERY cut for each episode before exporting. This adds maybe 15-20 minutes for each episode which adds up to about 10 hours per year. Maybe I should bill Adobe my day rate considering I loose over a day each year just from editing podcasts.