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Auto Select Clip with playhead

Community Beginner ,
Aug 16, 2012 Aug 16, 2012

Hopefully this will be an easy query to answer.

I would like to have premiere auto select a clip on the timeline via the playhead position.

Eg: if I'm using the up & down arrows to go to next and previouse edit, I want the clips to auto select when the playhead jumps to the next clip.

I'm in the process of coming over from Avid but i really miss this behaviour in Premiere.

Can Someone help me out?

Kale.

Mac

Pr CS6

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Explorer , Jul 01, 2015 Jul 01, 2015
 

Check/uncheck this option: Sequence > Selection Follows Playhead

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LEGEND ,
Aug 17, 2012 Aug 17, 2012

Can't be done.  Selecting requires a click.

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Explorer ,
Jul 01, 2015 Jul 01, 2015
 

Check/uncheck this option: Sequence > Selection Follows Playhead

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Participant ,
Jul 08, 2015 Jul 08, 2015

F8: that was EXACTLY what I was looking for coming to this thread. THANK YOU. I found it annoying how the new APP15 was selecting clips at the playhead. Feature disabled. Thanks!

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Explorer ,
Jan 09, 2017 Jan 09, 2017

Same happened to me but I was working on a very urgent project so I just had to deal with it and it actually turned out to be very helpful. Somehow the feature got disabled and I was looking for a way to enable it again. After you get used to it, it can save you a lot of time!

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Explorer ,
Dec 21, 2015 Dec 21, 2015

Thanks! That was driving me bonkers.

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Community Beginner ,
Aug 12, 2016 Aug 12, 2016

Thank you! This somehow turned on this morning and it mucked with my process. You have made work a bit easier today.

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Community Beginner ,
Apr 11, 2017 Apr 11, 2017

Thank you, Thank you! This was driving me crazy. Not a helpful feature if you are zipping around using keyboard commands. Now if Adobe would just allow every command to mapped to the keyboard or an icon on the interface.

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New Here ,
Mar 15, 2018 Mar 15, 2018

THANK YOU!

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Adobe Employee ,
Jul 08, 2015 Jul 08, 2015

This is a new feature to Premiere Pro CC 2015. This didn't exist for the OP in 2012 with CS6. I marked it correct for the current CC 2015 behavior. I hope that's OK.

Thanks,
Kevin

Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community & Engagement Strategist – Pro Video and Audio
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New Here ,
Oct 09, 2015 Oct 09, 2015

I'm experiencing the same issue...I have no idea how this function became enabled, but I need to turn it off. I've tried hitting F8 and clips are still being selected at playhead. Can you please advise? Help appreciated, thanks. - G

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Explorer ,
Oct 09, 2015 Oct 09, 2015

This was answered three posts above:

Check/uncheck this option: Sequence > Selection Follows Playhead

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New Here ,
Oct 13, 2015 Oct 13, 2015

Ah! Didn't see the edit. Thank you for reiterating!

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New Here ,
May 27, 2016 May 27, 2016

Can this be done in Audition? Thanks!

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New Here ,
Sep 10, 2016 Sep 10, 2016

The Sequence > Selection Follows Playhead is great but the one thing that tripped me up was making sure that the video tracks that I wanted to select were turned on.

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Explorer ,
Feb 07, 2023 Feb 07, 2023

Found this thread because I am trying to do the exact opposite. The playhead seems to auto select the clip it is over and it is annoying the crap out of me!

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New Here ,
Feb 03, 2025 Feb 03, 2025

Can anyone say if this option still exists? I cant find it anymore!

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New Here ,
Feb 03, 2025 Feb 03, 2025

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New Here ,
Mar 06, 2025 Mar 06, 2025
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Thank you for following up your own question, I struggled to find where this option was too.

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