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Timeline jumps back to playhead anytime I click while playback / I press play or stop

Forum|Forum|4 years ago
February 20, 2022
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PP2022

I am not sure if this has always been like that, or if it's a new thing but it's driving me nuts.

For example:

I watch my edit in the timeline and then in some part I zoom in to inspect some detail while it keeps playing. If I now hit pause the timeline automatically jumps to where the playhead has moved to while I was inspecting and away from the section I was looking at. I would like the timeline to stay on the section I was looking at.

If I click in the timeline in order to relocate the playhead while it's playing, it will always jump to the current playhead's position and not where I clicked.

In order to achieve this I always have to zoom out, so that the playhead is visible, then stop, move the playhead to where I want to be and zoom out.

This has cost me so much time and I am about to lose my mind about it. I really can't remember ever having this problem in 15 years of editing.

I hope I am making myself understand. I have been searching extensively on the internet but I don't even know how to name this problem.

For a moment I thought that "selection follows playhead" was the solution but it really wasn't. I am also under the impression, that sometime for some reason it will work just as I want and remember it, but then it will go back. Maybe I am hitting some secret key without knowing it.

Your help is highly appreciate. If you don't understand please ask,

Thanks

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nickm77832429

Participant

Hi, it might be a bit late, I`m still suffering by the same problem and it drives me crazy, espeacially as I`m an original Vegas Pro user and the program has the feauture you discirbed by deafault AND an extra timeline-playhead for navigating precisely, also you can activate the feature that it keeps playing automatically from whatever position you cklick on, so I click while its playing and it continues playing automatically from the new osition instantly after clicking, miss that too XD

Hope Adobe impliments that, aside I miss some of Vegas Pro features in Pr, which are so freaking wayy better in my opinion than the features in Pr, but Vegas bacame so freaking unstable, wich is such a shame, still love the Program anyway, hope you have a great day, keep editing!

gerikp

Community Expert

This will probably be unsatisfactory again, but hear me out. If you map a keyboard shortcut in your keyboard preferences to "Move Playhead to Cursor" and then use that shortcut to stop playback instead of using the "K" key or the Spacebar, the timeline will stop playing, and the CTI (playhead) will move to where your cursor is. This works for me using Premiere Pro 23.1.0.

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joel21954078em27

Known Participant

CALL TO ACTION

As gerikp suggested you can vote for this you would like to change via this like. please vote for the 4-5 options describing the same problem, and also press CRITICAL

https://adobe-video.uservoice.com/forums/911233-premiere-pro?query=PLAYHEAD%20MOVEMENT%20BACK%20TO%202021%20VERSION%20-%20should%20not%20jump%20to%20playhead%20if%20i%20am%20zoomed%20into%20another%20part%20of%20the%20video%20and%20the%20pause%20

Also please if you can, contact Adobe Via the help centre and let them know what our issue is and how much it is slowing us down,

https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/support/support-new/support-apps.html#ppro

Adobe support > Contact Us - Real help from real people.

brotherbrother

Participant

Thanks for the links - I can't seem to find this issue to vote for it though?

Agree that it's the most annoying thing ever to break in a PPro update, and it's ridiculous it's been ignored for nearly a year, and that some kind of semi-coordinated call-to-action seems necessary. I can't understand why it's changed and hasn't been addressed??

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it's a bug with the "No Scroll" setting of "Timeline Playback Auto-Scroll", right? It's like it forgets it's set to 'No Scroll' when playback stops (however you stop it), and jumps to the playhead. When we click the timeline ruler bar thingy, it triggers a stop, and jumps, throwing us totally.

The "Move Playhead to Cursor" workaround helps, but it is just a workaround, and after months and months I'm still making the mistake of just clicking where I want to be and, you know, expecting to be there.

Matthew Johnson Films

Participating Frequently

At this point, this feels like a prank that someone coded in after getting fired, rather than a neglected bug. How can a primary functionality be absent from one of the industray-standard editing programs on the market for over a year?

I have not and will not update Premiere until this is fixed. Whatever new feature the devs work on will be blissfully absent from my workflow until this issues is resolved.

I have deadlines to meet for my clients. This bug simply makes it harder for me to satisfy my client's rightful expectation to have their work delivered in the timeframe I quote.

Adobe, please honor and respect the competance, value and monthly subscriptions of your customers by acknowledging the problem exists and fix it.

Jeff_Croghan

Known Participant

This is still doing this for me and is a huge problem for a oroifessional editor. If the timeline is playing, and I scroll further down the timeline, away from the playhead, to inspect the next cut, or to just move to the next sectioj i need to work on, when i stop playing the timeline it jumps back to the playhead. This is a HUGGGGEEEEE PROBLEM. Adobe you need to fix this horrific mistake right away.

Matthew Johnson Films

Participating Frequently

How this has yet to be resolved, let alone hardly recognized by the Adobe support team is beyond me. As a full time wedding videogapher, I refuse to update to anything beyond 2021, prior to this issue. I am not longer at my part time which recquired me to have updated versions to easily send project files to other editors. Let me tell you, when I in the off chance accidentally start editing in the new version (which I still have on my computer for redundancy) I realize it within seconds of working on a timeline and switch back. Cannot describe how irritating and time wasting it is to have it constantly skipping to the wrong place.

Jeff_Croghan

Known Participant

I agree it absoultely slows down my editing 1000%. I am constantly moving around the timeline and having it jump back to the playhead at anypoint is super disorinting and really messes up my edit process, espically when you are really zoomed in and then you loose the place you were looking for.

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josiahg15929363

Participant

I have the exact same issue and I think I just solved it with a little work around.

By setting an in marker on the place that I am zoomed in at, I can hit "Shift + I" to jump back to that point.

Matthew Johnson Films

Participating Frequently

Does anyone know if this bug has been resolved yet? I would like to update to the newest build if it has been.

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davidpayne1981

Known Participant

nope, not resolved yet. Still exactly the same on the latest version.

H

Heretic5

Participant

I'm having the same problem. Hadn't been an issue until I updated my OS the other day so idk.

J

joel21954078em27

Known Participant

Please everyone call them up, they have a good team of people paid to help and take feedback, they will change it if we get to the right person

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David24770847ixou

Participant

so desperate to get this fixed. Have we done all we can to bring it to Adobe's attention?

D

davidpayne1981

Known Participant

WE NEED TO GO THROUGH THE CUSTOMER SUPPORT, unfortunately I have a university lisence so personal I don't have access to it, but please please do it if you can, it may be a bit long and they may ask to remote view your setting but if it gets to a Manager it will be properly recorded,

I have logged it

"Thank you for the information, We will highlight the issue with our development team.

If you want to you may also log the report over the below provided link to get the issue highlighted to the development team here

dylansesco

Participant

This is the most annoying thing I've ever encountered with an Adobe product, and the first thing that has made me start to look at competitors products.

If it's not fixed soon I'll probably have to jump ship.

Antonio Wimmer M

Participating Frequently

I've tested all of versions 22.X available as of June 14th and the latest version that works correctly is the version 22.0 (build 169). Even if the newer version have cool features such as the remix, better speech-to-text, new export windows, auto-color and lots of things, this one thing maked it impossible for me to upgrade. The time it consumes this little glitch and the frustration is simply unparalleled. I've tried the cursor moves to playhead but because I edit on the go I don't use a mouse and with the mac trackpad, when is scroll and click the shortcut for the "move to playhead" it doesn't recognize the scroll. I need to move the cursos a little bit after the scrolling so the Premiere recognices the mouse. It just doesn't work correctly. I'm so frsutrated still with this issue. Please Adobe, bring back the cursor/timeline behavior you had in the version 22.0.0 please!

Antonio Wimmer M

Participating Frequently

is is driving me crazy!

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