How to prevent switching active panes while performing edit

[Phi.Def]

I'm an old-school editor who prefers not to touch the mouse. I'm trying to quickly go through a lot of raw footage and place highlights in a timeline.

My practice in other editing programs is to play through the raw footage in the source monitor (at various speeds), select in and out points, hit overwrite edit, then continue scanning. My problem in Premiere Pro is that every time I hit overwrite, the active pane switches to the timeline and the program monitor comes to the foreground. It's a pain to have to switch back to my source monitor to continue editing.

Is there a way to keep the source monitor active when I hit overwrite?

[Meg The Dog]

Go to Preferences > Timeline and make sure "Set focus on the Timeline when performing Insert/Overwrite edits" is ​UNCHECKED ​(toggled off).

MtD

[Phi.Def]

Thanks for responding, but that setting is already turned off, and the active pane still switches to the timeline when I perform an edit.

[Meg The Dog]

Trash your preferences:

FAQ: How to reset (trash) preferences in Premiere Pro?

MtD

[Phi.Def]

I trashed my preferences, and and the active pane still switches to the program monitor when I perform an edit.

[Meg The Dog]

Sorry, I went back I re-read your first post and now understand that you are using keyboard shortcuts for the insert or overwrite from the source monitor?

If so, using keyboard shortcuts overrides the setting in preferences, it automatically makes the timeline active after you use it.

Not sure if this is a bug or not.

My only suggestion is if you do not want to use the buttons for insert and overwrite that are in the source monitor (doing so will respect the preference setting and maintain focus on the source monitor), then after doing the insert or overwrite via the shortcut key type Shift +2 to return to the source monitor.

MtD

[Phi.Def]

If that's not considered a bug, it should be. What I'm doing is the standard method of professional editing.

Also, I'm on a Mac. My function keys are not accessible by Premiere Pro, because they are used by the Mac OS for adjusting screen brightness, speaker volume, etc.

Anyone else have any suggestions?

[Meg The Dog]

You can use Keyboard Shortcuts (menu Premiere Pro > Keyboard Shortcuts) to program any available key (or key combo) of your choosing to make a keyboard shortcut to activate the Source Monitor:

MtD

[rodneyb56060189]

CTRN: Change That's Right Now | Symptoms

[Phi.Def]

I hope you're not that guy who goes to the edit drop down menu to click on 'copy' and then does it again to click on 'paste'. Show me an editor that relies on the mouse and I'll show you a slow editor.

[Phi.Def]

We're getting close. Do you know if there's a way to program a keystroke to do two consecutive commands? If so, I can get a shortcut that first overwrites and then switches to the source monitor.

[rodneyb56060189]

hehe... no, I'm not THAT terrible....

[rodneyb56060189]

I don't use it as much as some people... but my laptop has a keyboard that believe it or not has these 6 keys that you can use to record macros … any key combinations etc... and it's really cool.  My edit computer doesn't have it.