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January 24, 2023
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Timeline Snap options

  • January 24, 2023
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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

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    Warren Heaton
    Community Expert
    Warren HeatonCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    June 6, 2026

    Here's a mockup of what Snap Options might look like when we right-click the Snap Button at the upper left of the Timeline panel.

     

     

      BrianLevin
      BrianLevin
      Known Participant
      June 7, 2026

      Love the idea but I would say it either needs to go into the wrench menu and that menu itself needs to have submenus to free up space, or it belongs in the project preferences. I think putting it here risks it being less likely for users to find it as there are no other places where this sort of action affects a button’s properties in the program.

      Warren Heaton
      Community Expert
      Warren HeatonCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      June 7, 2026

      Sure.

       

      But why not put it where it's used, not unlike the Magnification pop-up menu and the Playback Resolution pop-up menu in the Program panel?


      And right-click menus are all over Premiiere.

       

       

       

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      theaveragedave
      Known Participant
      June 4, 2026

      This particularly plagues all of us with 2-4 frame audio transitions applied to every edit. Please make it so!

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      katpro23
      Participant
      May 15, 2025

      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
        March 4, 2025

        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
          July 11, 2024

          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
            April 3, 2024

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

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              Letizia5E17
              Participating Frequently
              November 10, 2023

              I STILL NEED IT!!!

                TheVisionaryOne
                TheVisionaryOne
                Participant
                June 18, 2023

                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
                  Nick Lear
                  Inspiring
                  May 25, 2023

                  I would love to turn off snap to transitions!

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                    Ben5E36
                    Participant
                    January 24, 2023
                    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.
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