blade cuts, playhead moves

[MatteoBC5F]

very often, when applying a cut with the blade tool, the playhead skips immediately to a random point of the timeline

[Stan Jones]

This is usually because there's something in a search box, e.g. captions/transcript.

Stan

[MisterAdvent]

Does it do the same with ctl+k? 

[mattchristensen]

It's possible this was happening when you had an active search in the Text panel. We've just put a fix in the most recent build of Premiere Pro (Beta) to prevent this unwanted jumping.