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delgadob
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May 10, 2016
Answered

Left & Right arrow not moving one frame at a time

  • May 10, 2016
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Hello,

I am fairly new at Premier Pro and I am coming from Avid's Media Composer.

Both, Premier Pro & Media Composer are installed in a PC running Windows 7 Professional

I tried using the left and/or right arrow on the keyboard to move one frame in either direction while in the Editing mode.

Although the timecode numbers displayed in blue change, neither the playhead nor the actual image changes.

No clue as to why not.

Suggestions are greatly aprecciated.

Thanks,

Bert

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      Correct answer jkahlmann

      Sorry for the late answer, but if your blue timecode is indicating a change in the timecode, perhaps you're in "audio time units" and not your typical frames, meaning you're moving left and right in milliseconds and not frames.

      This feature is turned on and off by going to the ☰ (timeline menu button to the right of the sequence's name) and toggling on/off the "Show Audio Time Units" feature. Hope this helps someone.

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      Eric22965947fqy5
      Participant
      February 22, 2023

      Premiere V23.2 les flèches droite et gauche ne fonctionnent pas pour avancer image par image sur OSX

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      Community Expert
      RobShultzCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      February 22, 2023

      I'd try resetting Preferences:

      Have the app closed and hold down command/option/shift while the app is booting and allow changes. Hope that this helps.

      Royhessey
      Royhessey
      Inspiring
      September 8, 2021

      I have found on my Windows 10 desktop that holding down the ALT key and using the arrows LEFT or RIGHT works and moves the selected clip one fram at each press.

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      Nadia_creative
      Participant
      April 5, 2021


      Premiere used to do this by defult i found the same issue. 
      the boxes i have highlighted in red is the correct keys to do it. just make sure in your keyboard shortcut they Alt key is step up (Step back/forward 1 frame) and the none at the top is set to (select previous keyframe/select forward keyframe).

      This will correct it. 🙂   

      Westy HJ
      Westy HJ
      Participating Frequently
      April 29, 2021

      Additionally, I've just found out if the above doesn't work - it didn't for me - I could only jump a millisecond forward and backward pressing the left/right arrows.  Which is even more annoying than it sounds!!!

      You may have to click the pop-out options (the 3 horizontal lines circled) for the timeline you're working on, then make sure the 'Show Audio Time Units" is NOT clicked on. (highlighted in green

       

       

      For me this had happened because the previous editor had set up the project this way and forgot to change it back to what i'd consider 'the norm.' Thankfully a quick phone call sorted it out.  Happy editing!

      Cheers

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      Anton_e_c
      Participant
      January 21, 2021

      Check to see if your sequence settings frame rate matches with the footages frame rate.

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      wholetrack
      Participant
      January 9, 2021

      Arrows do not function when in the Track window - when you click on the Program window arrow keys should work as expected.  

      MyerPj
      Community Expert
      MyerPjCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      January 9, 2021

      When you say 'Track window' to you mean the timeline? I didn't see anyone ask about a track window, so I'm not sure what you are referring to? If it's the timeline window, (which holds sequences and the tracks they contain) then indeed the arrows work very well.

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      mmaurus
      Participant
      October 12, 2020

      Thank you jkahlmann.
      This worked perfectly.

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        obergz
        Participant
        May 8, 2020

        Thank you so much man, I've had a problem with this for a couple of days and I really needed to fix it, thanks again you're my hero.

          rebeccah24977877
          rebeccah24977877
          Participant
          January 28, 2020

          Thanks. I did some crazy fast mouse move and it selected that before I even realized what happened. So, clicked on that icon, saw the thing you were talking about, and now I'm back to scrubbing frame by frame. Thanks!

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            rolandeaux
            Participant
            December 13, 2018

            THANK YOU! saved a ton of time.

              jkahlmann
              jkahlmannCorrect answer
              Inspiring
              February 14, 2017

              Sorry for the late answer, but if your blue timecode is indicating a change in the timecode, perhaps you're in "audio time units" and not your typical frames, meaning you're moving left and right in milliseconds and not frames.

              This feature is turned on and off by going to the ☰ (timeline menu button to the right of the sequence's name) and toggling on/off the "Show Audio Time Units" feature. Hope this helps someone.

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                BeRuss4
                Participant
                May 28, 2017

                Hello, there! I had the same problem as OP. I was worried that it was not answered, until I saw your response. Not sure if it worked for OP a year ago, but it certainly fixed my issue. Thank you so much, jkahlmann! 

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