Shortcut keys overriding while typing

[thesujxl]

Hey everyone,

I've been running into an issue where shortcut keys are being triggered while I'm typing text in Premiere Pro.

For example, when typing on a text layer:

Instead of just typing, certain keys act like I'm hitting a keyboard shortcut (like “C” switching to the Razor tool or “V” switching to the Selection tool), even though my cursor is clearly inside a text field.

• Premiere Pro version: 25.3

• OS: MacOS 15 Sequoia

• What I’ve tried:

  • Restarting Premiere

  • Resetting preferences
    
    

Has anyone else experienced this? Any known fixes or workarounds?

Thanks in advance!

[IanB_360]

Hi @thesujxl 

and welcome to the Premiere Pro Forum community.  Thank you for taking your time to report a problem. The team just needs a little more information to begin troubleshooting. The link here How to Report a Problem , has steps to providing more information about your bug that can help us identify the issue. The information you leave us could help pinpoint what's happening. 
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Ian

[Stan Jones]

@thesujxl,

This is the first report I've seen in PR 25.3. Does this happen all the time, or intermittently?

This symptom had been created by 2 fixed bugs from 2024.

The first was fixed in 24.3, and happened every time you deleted an effect that allowed Direct Manipulation in the Program Monitor (like a mask or the crop effect) - Add a mask in Effect Controls; delete the mask; text entry shows the error. The workaround was to enter any kind of Direct Manipulation before editing the text - for example, click on "Motion" or "Vector Motion" in the Effect Controls panel.

The second occurred if the Reference Monitor was open. The Reference Monitor was removed in version 25, so that was no longer a problem.

There have still been a very few reports of this symptom, but none have led to a repeatable process. I have been unable to replicate.

All 3 of these problems got merged into the same very long thread, and it made for some confusion for users who continued to see the symptom. 

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/in-version-of-24-4-1/td-p/15175839

To test further, clear your cache, start a new project, use a default workspace (and reset it to saved layout), then see if you get the problem. A screen recording would be useful.

@morphinapg, Did this get sorted for you?

Stan

[morphinapg]

@Stan Jones I believe it still happens last time I checked, but I've just been using a workaround for myself. I noticed that if the mouse shows as a text selection cursor before double clicking to select the default caption, that's when the bug will most likely happen. But if the mouse shows a regular arrow instead, then I never have the problem. So if I get that text selection cursor, I click outside the caption once, which turns the cursor back to a regular arrow, and then I can double click to select the caption, and type without a worry.

But I do occasionally forget and encounter the same issue again. It's been maybe a couple months since the last time I was working on captions, but I do believe it happened during that project as well.

[Stan Jones]

@morphinapg,

Thanks for reporting.

Stan

[Neil37596315m28u]

I am experiencing the same problem until now and haven't found any fix aside from copy pasting the letter or word i need to use in the caption. 

Windows 11
Premiere v 25.3

I hope this will be fixed soon.

[Flavio_St]

Say I'm typing i in the Program Monitor, it marks the In of my sequence as well. Or I type D, it marks the clip in the Timeline.

Or, like I clearly demosntrated in the video, I hit comma and it adds an insert if the timeline.

Doesn't happen everytimes, but randomly. Fix this please!

[IanB_360]

Hi @Flavio_St 

Welcome to the Premiere Pro Forum community.  Thank you for taking the time to file a bug report. The team needs a little more information to begin troubleshooting. The link here  How do I write a bug report has steps to provide more information about your bug that can help us identify the issue. 
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Ian

[Stan Jones]

@Flavio_St,

What version of PR? What OS?

See my response here:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-bugs/shortcut-keys-overriding-while-typing/idc-p/1538569...

Stan

[Stan Jones]

@AnnikaKoenig,

There are now several reports of this problem in 25.3.0.

I cannot replicate on Win11 25.3.0. The OP in this thread is Mac, but @morphinapg is Win11. His issue was always different from the direct manipulation and the reference monitor bugs that were fixed. 

I agreed with your thought that a separate thread for the @morphinapg issue was best. But his posts had already been merged by then. This current thread is as good as any. 

His excellent description is here:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-bugs/p-unable-to-select-text-or-add-new-text-with-type-t...

His screen recording and explanation is here:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-bugs/p-unable-to-select-text-or-add-new-text-with-type-t...

Stan

[VJ#1]

When typing subtitles, the text tool suddenly switches to a different tool and erases my whole timeline. 
It's happening for 2 weeks now and might be from changing my keyboard. 

[VJ#1]

More INFO: I have a PC with a AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12-Core Processor, 96.0 GB (95.7 GB usable) RAM,
with a 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor. I am using Windows 11 OS, version 25.30 Adobe Premiere Pro.
The Type Tool button changes to either ripple edit or the new AI expand tool, and seems to erase my whole timeline. My fingers are not going anywhere near the F keys at the top of the keyboard which I thought were the only ones for keyboard shortcuts. Is it possible hitting certain aphabet keys triggers some unwanted keyboard shortcuts? 

[Stan Jones]

@VJ#1,

> F keys at the top of the keyboard which I thought were the only ones for keyboard shortcuts.

There are many shortcuts using just about all the keys on the keyboard. Edit -> Keyboard shortcuts.

Stan

[VJ#1]

Is there a way to turn off keyboard shortcuts if simply typing text can trigger unwanted erasing of my work?

[Rach McIntire]

@VJ#1 Unfortunately, there isn't an easy button to click to turn them all off. I also assume you use keyboard shortcuts when editing, so you do not want to turn them off forever. Something weird to try would be to save a Keyboard Layout where you've turned off most of the shortcuts and then use that layout when editing text. Obviously, this may or may not help depending on your workflow, but perhaps it is a temporary solution while we look into this more.

[Stan Jones]

@VJ#1,

> Is there a way to turn off keyboard shortcuts 

You can create a custom keyboard, and (manually, I think) delete all the default keystrokes.

But IF you are experiencing the problem in this thread, it won't matter. What happens is that after typing a character or 2, you exit the text box and can't type in it. Then your keystrokes do whatever is appropriate for the context - often a shortcut.

Stan

[Flavio_St]

hasn't been fixed in latest version 25.3 and to prove it here's a quick video demonstrating how, while in the caption selection red box with typing cursor, and I hit comma, it adds an insert in my timeline! that's crazy. It's delaying my workflow a lot.

[Flavio_St]

Latest 25.3
Windows 11

here's a video of how subtitling can mess up your timeline

[Stan Jones]

@Flavio_St,

Thanks for the video demonstrating the issue. So far, I have been unable to replicate. BUT I once again followed @morphinapg's description and what you show in your video, and it showed the bug. This is confusing, because when I first extensively tried this method after @morphinapg's description, I could not replicate the bug. I just did this in Beta version, 25.6.0 Build 14, and then repeated it in Release 25.3.0. I am on Win 11.

His description is "I noticed that if the mouse shows as a text selection cursor before double clicking to select the default caption, that's when the bug will most likely happen"

In your video, I can see that the Selection tool is selected, and you click on the Text tool to select it. No caption is selected. When hovering in the timeline, the cursor appears as the selection tool, but the Tool panel confirms the Text tool is selected, and as you drag the cursor into the Program Monitor, it appears as the text tool. (I tried dragging in from the bottom and from the left with the same results.) With the Text tool selected, a single click enters edit mode: the red bounding box appears, and the red insertion line appears where you click on the text.

I  hit the space bar, and it entered a space AND starts playing the timeline. If I repeat this with a selection in the Source Monitor, and hit the comma key, it enters a comma AND inserts the selection from the Source Monitor to the source patched track. I produced this 100% of the tries.

If I do NOT select the Text tool first, I must double-click on the caption, which selects it, enters edit mode, and changes to the Text tool. Under that condition, it edits correctly every time.

Stan

[Flavio_St]

Hi Stan, yes you're right. That seems to dodge the bug, editing the caption with the selection tool (double click) instead of the text tool (single click). Although if you look closer the caption is indeed selected when I hit it with the text tool, the thing is that what you type next will be taken as a shortcut key for any command haha that's crazy

@thesujxl we encountered the problem

[Stan Jones]

@Flavio_St,

Yes, once clicked, the caption is selected (in the Program Monitor, the timeline, and the Text panel/caption tab).

@AnnikaKoenig @TeresaDemel In the fixed bugs with similar symptoms (delete an effect that allows Direct Manipulation and Reference monitor being open), I think the pattern was that one or two typing entries worked, then the second or third resulted in a shortcut execution. So I tried a bunch of things that might have an effect - none did. I closed the properties and graphics templates panels. I closed the text panel. I closed all panels except Timeline, tools, and Program Monitor. (The Audio meter remains open.)

The edit to the caption shows (e.g. there is a space or a comma or whatever). Sometimes, I did not see an entry in the history panel and undo has no effect, but eventually, I was unable to replicate this.

If the hotkey action appears in the history panel, it comes before the Edit Caption Text, e.g. typing "x" and move in/out operation.

I also reset preferences, cache, etc, created a new project, and tested. The problem was unchanged.

Stan

[AtaurRaziq1]

When I have transcribed and applied captions in a sequence, if I wish to edit a caption I pick the Type Tool and click the caption. But when I begin typing, the Premiere Pro hotkeys are still active, and so if I type the letter W, Premiere activates the Ripple Trim Next Edit to Playhead hotkey and it unfocuses from the caption typing. 

In most cases I'm typing an entire word. By the time I've typed my word, I've actually accidentally pressed several hotkeys I did not intend to and now I have to undo until things seem okay again, and then double click or triple click the caption in the Program Monitor. You can picture what a hurdle this poses to caption workflows.

This is an infuriating bug because it's been present in the last few releases of Premiere now, please can we have this ironed out as soon as possible, thank you.

[AtaurRaziq1]

Ideally it's a single click with the Type tool on the caption on screen to switch complete focus onto that caption text, and disable the hotkeys until one hits Escape.

[Stan Jones]

@AtaurRaziq1,

This will probably get moved to this other thread that is the "current" version of this bug:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-bugs/shortcut-keys-overriding-while-typing/idi-p/1538238...

@IanB_360 or whoever gets to this first. The status is "more info" and there is no developer attention. This should be acknowledged by now. I just retested and replicated with Win 11 on PR 25.4.1 and PR Beta 25.6.0.39 using the method I described in that thread:

With a caption under the playhead and selected in the timeline, select the Text tool, single-click on the caption in the Program Monitor, and type a single character or space bar. That character is added to the caption AND a keyboard shortcut executes (if one is assigned to that key) AND you exit edit mode. Any additional keystrokes are treated as shortcuts.

> This is an infuriating bug because it's been present in the last few releases of Premiere now, please can we have this ironed out as soon as possible, thank you.

It has been difficult because more than one bug/cause has been identified and fixed. And yes, there is a current bug.

This is my post where I (finally!) replicated it:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-bugs/shortcut-keys-overriding-while-typing/idc-p/1543350...

The behavior of this bug is a bit different from the earlier ones. In the past, you could type one or two characters, then it would exit edit mode, and whatever you then typed would execute as a shortcut, if there was one assigned to that key. Now, from the first keystroke, it types that character, AND executes the shortcut for it AND exits edit mode. Is this what you are seeing? What version of PR are you running? What OS?

> Ideally it's a single click with the Type tool on the caption on screen to switch complete focus onto that caption text, and disable the hotkeys until one hits Escape.

I think that is one of the "by design" behaviors. As noted by @morphinapg, the workaround to avoid this for now is to NOT have the text tool selected before entering edit mode - and yes, using a double-click to do so. That is also a "by design" behavior.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-bugs/shortcut-keys-overriding-while-typing/idc-p/1538688...

Or you can edit in the Captions tab. I don't see "this" version of the bug there.

Stan

[AtaurRaziq1]

Premiere 25.4.1 Build 3
Win11 Home 24H2

"Now, from the first keystroke, it types that character, AND executes the shortcut for it AND exits edit mode. Is this what you are seeing?"

Yes this is what is happening for me. Both in latest Pr and the Beta.

Thanks 

[IanB_360]

Thank you
 @Stan Jones  for the detailed steps to reproduce this. I was able to reproduce this on Windows 11, Premiere Pro 25.4.1 and 25.6.
The team has acknowledged this, and it has been reported as a bug. 
Currently, the best workarounds as you mentioned, are,

"  As noted by @morphinapg, the workaround to avoid this for now is to NOT have the text tool selected before entering edit mode - and yes, using a double-click to do so. 

Or you can edit in the Captions tab. I don't see "this" version of the bug there."

We will keep everyone posted here on any updates.
Here to help
Ian