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braydon
Inspiring
March 6, 2026
Question

Where is "Open Clips in Separate Tabs"?

  • March 6, 2026
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When I hit Shift+2 more than once in a row, Premiere starts flicking through previous clips in the Source Monitor. I want to disable this, and I’ve successfully done so in the past. Now, I can’t work out how to.

Gemini tells me the function I need to disable is “Open Clips in Separate Tabs” but it’s consistently telling me the wrong places to find it. Does anybody know which I can find this option? (although knowing Gemini, it might be making the whole name up too)

 

(for what it’s worth, I’ve double checked, and Source Monitor is definitely the only command mapped to Shift+2)

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    Ann Bens
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    March 6, 2026

    Don't use AI, usually has got it wrong. There is no Open Clips in Separate tabs.

    What do you want to do?

    Shift+2 scroll through the clips which are loaded in the Source Monitor.

     

    braydon
    braydonAuthor
    Inspiring
    March 9, 2026

    Thanks Ann, that explains why I can’t find it! 

    What I’m wanting to do is disable Shift+2 from scrolling through the clips in the source monitor. I still want Shift+2 to switch focus to the Source Monitor, but I don’t want a second/subsequent press of Shift+2 to cycle through the loaded clips. I never use this ability, but it happens often-enough that I accidently press 2 twice, or focus is already on the Source Monitor when I press Shift+2, and the source monitor starts cycling through unwanted clips. I then have to switch to the mouse to get it back to where I want it, disrupting my flow.

    Previously, I had managed to disable this behavior. Shift+2 would switch focus to the Source Monitor, and repeated presses of Shift+2 wouldn’t cycle through past clips. But I had to clear my preferences a few months ago to get rid of some bugs, and now it’s back to the default behaviour and I cannot work out how to get back to the way I’d configured it. 

    Inspiring
    March 9, 2026

    Hi ​@braydon. Maybe you were using the “Toggle Source/Program Monitor Focus” shortcut? You can switch to the Monitor window without cycling through all the clips in it.