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

Report · Feb 19, 2022

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

Report · Aug 16, 2022

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

Report · Sep 23, 2022

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.

Report · Oct 26, 2022

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.

Report · Oct 26, 2022

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.

Report · Oct 26, 2022

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.

Report · Oct 26, 2022

*Insert gif of person pointing upwards at this post*
Which is my very unprofessional way of saying I couldn't agree more Jeff. Meeting deadlines for clients hinges on efficient productivity. These jumps and disorientations forcing to place an in-out point every time you want to replay a section to fine tune pacing really slows down the process.

Report · Dec 01, 2022

@gerikp This problem has been killing me. But I set move playhead to cursor as an ALT Space Short cut and it has been great. Had to rewire myself a bit but now everytime I stop the video I hit ALT Space and it works perfect. You are a GOD. Thank you so much for solving this issue.

Report · Dec 03, 2022

Our only shot for them to an an option to new software is to let adobe know what our issue is, this can be done via the online support (unfortunatly is can not as i am on a university lisence and support is restricted)

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

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

Report · Dec 03, 2022

Our only chance for them to add an option to new software is to let adobe know what our issue is and how much it is slowing us down, this can be done via the online support (unfortunatly is can not as i am on a university lisence and support is restricted)

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

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

Report · Dec 03, 2022

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%2...

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.

Report · Jan 10, 2023

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!

Report · Jan 11, 2023

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.

Report · Jan 11, 2023

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.

Report · Jan 12, 2023

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.

Report · Jan 17, 2023

This is still an issue for me as well and I'm really hoping a fix is on the way. It didn't used to be like this, and it has totally interrupted my workflow. Even if Adobe just added an option to keep the Playhead from doing this, would be really nice.

This same question is on Reddit so if you don't understand the question at hand, go look at the video that goes along with the Reddit entry, it shows the issue exactly.

https://www.reddit.com/r/premiere/comments/ra4crf/help_timeline_jumps_back_to_playhead_when_i_press/...

Report · Jan 17, 2023

I agree, it's crazy that they have not fixed this problem yet.

Report · Jan 17, 2023

That;s exactly what it does for me and it drives me crazy. Not only does it jump back to the playhead when you press pause, but it also juimps back to the playhead if i were to click on the playhead (basically acting like a pause)

Report · Feb 13, 2023

Adobe, can we make it by 2024?

Report · Feb 22, 2023

Further proof this is definitely a bug not a feature (as if there was any doubt)... if you're in multicam view it doesn't happen. I was editing a multicam last night for one wonderful hour I thought the bug had been fixed.

Back to a normal sequence this morning and my hopes were dashed, but enabling multicam view on any sequence means it behaves the way it should.

So weird.

Almost as weird as ADOBE IGNORING ALL THE COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE ISSUE FOR THE LAST TWO YEARS.

It's endlessly frustrating. The 'move playhead to cursor' shortcut workaround is fine, but it's just that, a workaround, not intuitive behaviour.

Anyone found a way to vote for the issue or have adobe pay attention?

Report · Feb 22, 2023

Agreed, it does feel like a prank doesn't it?

Report · Feb 22, 2023

I have posted on here before and constantly see everyone elses replies...

Just want to say for anyone thats happy with the "work around" or defending this... I am sorry to tell you thats not good enough... This issue never existed, and Adobe even developed a setting that allowed you to choose whether or not you wanted the interface to behave like this...

I refuse to work around method, I want the software to work the way it worked for many many many happy years before this issue presented itself.

This BUG is hugely inefficient for ones workflow and productivity...

Report · Feb 22, 2023

I agree, its crazy this has not been addressed yet.

Report · Feb 22, 2023

WOW, you are right. If i put the Program window into "Multicam" view the problem goes away. The sequence doesnt even need to have a multicam assets in it, just so long as you are in multicam view. Once I turn Multicam view off the probelm comes back. ADOBE PLEASE FIX THIS!!!!!!!!

Report · Feb 22, 2023

I just started premiere on the newest updates and even though Im new with a "NEW PAIR OF EYES" , this was one of the first things that jumped out to me making me think " why is even happening? and why are there no fixes for this?"

Report · Feb 23, 2023

Whoever owns this thread needs to unmak this probelm as solved. The solved answer is not a solve for this and the higher ups at Adobe arent looking here becuase its makerd as solved.