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March 2, 2026
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Issues when dragging anything on Premiere Pro

  • March 2, 2026
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Hi all, 

I am experiencing a glitch with Premiere Pro where any form of dragging does not work. For example, dragging any ‘effect control’ value will treat it as a click and opens the text box, dragging to extend a clip or move a layer simply won’t work, and even dragging to scrub the playhead does not work. It’s a super frustrating glitch that I first noticed in January, but today it’s playing up more-so than usual. This is an intermittent glitch; dragging does & can work, but only half of the time.

This issue occurs when using either the trackpad or external mouse, so it can’t be a hardware issue.

I have reinstalled Premiere Pro numerous times in an attempt to fix the issue, but the glitch still continues. 

I’ve attached a screen recording to show exactly what I’m experiencing.

I am running Premiere Pro Version 26.0.1 (Build 3) on a MacBook Pro (Nov 2024), 48GB memory, running Tahoe 26.3.

I’d appreciate any help and support on this!

    1 reply

    jamieclarke
    Community Manager
    Community Manager
    March 2, 2026

    Hi ​@DigiMake -   Thanks for submitting your bug report. We need a few more details to try to help with the issue.

    Can you close or uninstall the artlist, and premiere composer panels, then restart Premiere and let us know if you still have the issue?  Third party panels do some weird things sometimes inside Premiere.


    Sorry for the frustration.

    DigiMakeAuthor
    Participant
    March 3, 2026

    Hi Jamie, thanks for the advice! Fortunately, the issue hasn’t been as prominent, but whenever it did happen, I closed the Artlist & Premiere Composer extensions and it seemed to work correctly.

    However, as mentioned before, this is an intermittent glitch so it’s unclear which one is the cause. It would be great to know if anyone from the community has either of these plugins installed and if they’re experiencing similar difficulties - only time will tell.

    Appreciate this solution, thank you!

    jamieclarke
    Community Manager
    Community Manager
    March 3, 2026

    We have seen issues with these panels.  Please reach out to the developers they may already have a ticket for this.  Have you tried updating your panels?