How to prevent switching active panes while performing edit

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July 9, 2019
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I'm an old-school editor who prefers not to touch the mouse. I'm trying to quickly go through a lot of raw footage and place highlights in a timeline.

My practice in other editing programs is to play through the raw footage in the source monitor (at various speeds), select in and out points, hit overwrite edit, then continue scanning. My problem in Premiere Pro is that every time I hit overwrite, the active pane switches to the timeline and the program monitor comes to the foreground. It's a pain to have to switch back to my source monitor to continue editing.

Is there a way to keep the source monitor active when I hit overwrite?

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rodneyb56060189

Legend

I don't use it as much as some people... but my laptop has a keyboard that believe it or not has these 6 keys that you can use to record macros … any key combinations etc... and it's really cool. My edit computer doesn't have it.

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rodneyb56060189

Legend

hehe... no, I'm not THAT terrible....

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Meg The Dog

Inspiring

Trash your preferences:

FAQ: How to reset (trash) preferences in Premiere Pro?

MtD

Phi.DefAuthor

Inspiring

I trashed my preferences, and and the active pane still switches to the program monitor when I perform an edit.

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Meg The Dog

Inspiring

Sorry, I went back I re-read your first post and now understand that you are using keyboard shortcuts for the insert or overwrite from the source monitor?

If so, using keyboard shortcuts overrides the setting in preferences, it automatically makes the timeline active after you use it.

Not sure if this is a bug or not.

My only suggestion is if you do not want to use the buttons for insert and overwrite that are in the source monitor (doing so will respect the preference setting and maintain focus on the source monitor), then after doing the insert or overwrite via the shortcut key type Shift +2 to return to the source monitor.

MtD