How to disable overwriting on the timeline?!!!

It’s 2024, and I’m still astounded that Premiere still doesn’t have this very basic safety feature to prevent erasing your own work.

The “Trim” tab in the Preferences menu still has a lot of space! There should be a check box that says “Prevent trimming or deleting clips by dragging another clip on top”, under the one that says “Playhead position determines trim monitor loop playback”. I thought Adobe was supposed to be industry standard.

See, I'm saying this all the time - this feature request thing is useless, they never listen to the users when they ask to change the VERY BASIC features to intutitve and normal ones, instead of nonsense default settings. What did they even add this "Ideas" tab for lol? It's useless.

Agreed, this is absolutely terrible.

Just realized, when yesterday I was doing some quick edit with the logo layer, I accidentally put it on the layer where some of the b-roll were. Normally in other software, I'd just put the logo layer up, revealing what's under it, and what used to be my b-roll footage. Now it's all gone.

To disable overwriting on the timeline in various video editing software, the specific steps may vary. Here's a general guideline: Identify the editing software you are using (e.g., Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve, etc.). Locate the settings or preferences menu within the software. This is typically found in the top menu bar under "Preferences," "Options," or "Settings." Look for an option related to timeline behavior, editing modes, or overwrite/insert modes. The exact terminology may differ depending on the software.

I also need help with this. It is very very anoying I have to redo all my work because is deleting the overlaping audios.

Adobe do something!

Im having the same issue. The drag overwrites the clip, which is a REAL PROBLEM. CTL does not fix it, it still overwrites!! Adobe what to do.

Wow, the "replace" feature is the most unintuitive and annoying feature I have encountered in any software for the last several years! I just dragged a long clip on my timeline, the end of it was not even visible and it's easy to overwrite something on the end of that clip. I then scrolled further in the timeline and noticed that some of my older clips were removed. That's awfull design. Adobe you have to fix the default behaviour. Just let the clip that was placed last stay on top of the older clip and disable the old clip from playing. That's it.

is this still an issue? is there a fix to this? switching from vegas to premiere and everything seems so super inefficient, most annoying part being this overwrite feature..

Hold down shift when dragging.