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How to disable pancaking timelines in Premiere

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
February 13, 2024
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How do I disable when going back and forth on timelines for it to not automatically want to drag a timeline above and pancake? It autoselects for me to do it when working on unrelated projects, and I have to end up dragging it back to where it was along the main strip of project titles. I am working on a Mac. This was added in a recent update.

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wdp84fb

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Yes! I would love to solve this too. It drives me insane and started with an update a few months ago. I have multiple sequence tabs open above my timeline and now Adobe seems to assume anytime I click on one I want to pancake timeline them. So awful.

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Erica12321Author

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THANK YOU! I am not the only one suffering from this and cannot disable it! Happens just with 1 click to activate which is so stupid.

R Neil Haugen

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Are you experiencing this when taking a sequence/selection from the timeline panel of one project, then dropping it into a timeline panel of a different project?

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

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Ali Jaber

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The question is not clear, do you mean that when you open a project while you work with another, you loose the arrangment of the timelines and you have to rearrange them manually, and you need a solution for that?

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Erica12321Author

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They are already opened in the top bar above the timeline, vs having to go back to the project and reopen sequences when I want them. As I replied above, when clicking from one timeline to another thats open in the panel, somehow the mouse turns purple and I need to try to click elsewhere or else it pancakes for me automatically. I want that disabled so I can just click and open. Literally happens every day and it wasn't until an update that this became a pain to deal with. My coworker complains about it too.

R Neil Haugen

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That would indicate you're mouse is moving when you click. They might have made the 'needed' movement to invoke a new panel segment requiring less distance to the movement, or something in your mouse or OS may have changed.

I typically have many open sequences at a time, as I work all my projects in a Production. I'm grabbing stuff from all over, and going from one sequence to another in the Timeline panel.

And I don't see this behavior. I click a sequence name tab, and it's the Active one. Without any sign of the blue segment that indicates that you're moving the name tab.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

R Neil Haugen

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That would happen if you drag a seqence from either the Timeline or Project panel, and 'drop' (let go on the mouse) while near the top of the Timeline panel.

When doing this, you see the indicator ... that shaded blue area at the top of the Timeline panel? If you see that, it will create a new panel.

You have to get farther down in the Timeline panel center before letting go.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

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Erica12321Author

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It is when I am just clicking from one timeline to another thats open in the panel, somehow the mouse turns purple and I need to try to click elsewhere or else it pancakes for me automatically. I do not want this to happen. I just want to click on my timelines open and have them open in full. It's when working on the top bar in the picture attached.

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