Auto Select Clip with playhead

[Kale_elb]

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

[Jim_Simon]

Can't be done.  Selecting requires a click.

[Joe @ F8]

J. Simon wrote:

Can't be done.  Selecting requires a click.

This isn't true—at least not with CC 2015. I've never had this happen before, but now when I scrub my playhead it is auto-selecting the clip beneath it, and I don't know why. In my case, I actually want to disable the feature, but can't find where the option is to do so…

Edit: Found it…

Check/uncheck this option: Sequence > Selection Follows Playhead

[Department4]

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!

[shot_and_cut]

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!

[Colm1960]

Thanks! That was driving me bonkers.

[adamf76497461]

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

[Wild_Orca]

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.

[dallasc12649702]

THANK YOU!

[Kevin-Monahan · Accepted solution]

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

[gavins58469420]

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

[Joe @ F8]

This was answered three posts above:

Check/uncheck this option: Sequence > Selection Follows Playhead

[gavins58469420]

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

[PrettyBroad]

Can this be done in Audition? Thanks!

[eevans05]

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.

[The Jive Aces]

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!