Turn off "Selection follows playhead" PERMANENTLY!

Here's how to turn it off permanently so it won't keep happening - this works!

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Edited due to Adobe policy prohibiting discussion of use of the engineer's console on their forums.

Yeah, but it's switched back on every time I open a project. I think my premiere is bugged. Might reinstall, but not annoying enough to be worth it.

In the Menu bar, Sequence tab, Selection Follows Playhead ... uncheck that.

It's driving me nuts. I'm not in the Lumetri panel, yet every time I open a project in premiere selection follows playhead is always selected. Is my premiere glitched? Is there a default setting menu somewhere where I can turn it off? I never want it on.

it's 11_20_23 and this is still an issue

surprise :))

it's 11_20_23 and this is still an issue

This is an annoying problem for me too. I use tilde in the program window to look at the video larger and it's back on every time. It never stays. It's the only thing and I don't want it when I haven't turned it on.

In fact, this Moderator Note ("Please do not use the internal developer tool to change the application.") is a good reference to the solution, which in turn can be found on yt.

Please do not change moderators text to your own advantage: edited: Moderator.

This works (sorry if someone already posted this):

Moderator Note: Link/text removed. Sorry. Please do not use the internal developer tool to change the application.
It is against the corporate guidelines and is a request from Adobe Premiere Pro engineering.

I'll have a look. (Found it, thanks.)

For now, I've resaved my custom workspace without Lumetri Color in it and that seems to work (at least in not turning it on when Pr starts). If I hit the shortcut to switch to Lumetri it opens where I want it. SFP turns on for Lumetri and then turns off when I switch away from the panel - this I think is how it was designed to work, which I can see is pretty useful and I wish I'd worked this out years ago. But it should work like this even with Lumetri as a background tab in the custom workspace, so this is a workaround.

Still the feature request remains overall.

Update - actually this workaround doesn't work in the long term, because once you've opened Lumetri in a cutom workspace, that custom workspace stays as you left it on restarting Premiere, meaning SFP comes back on. So I will try with the other method that has been hinted at for now and see how I get on with that.