Left & Right arrow not moving one frame at a time

[delgadob]

Hello,

I am fairly new at Premier Pro and I am coming from Avid's Media Composer.

Both, Premier Pro & Media Composer are installed in a PC running Windows 7 Professional

I tried using the left and/or right arrow on the keyboard to move one frame in either direction while in the Editing mode.

Although the timecode numbers displayed in blue change, neither the playhead nor the actual image changes.

No clue as to why not.

Suggestions are greatly aprecciated.

Thanks,

Bert

[Meg The Dog]

delgadob wrote:

I tried using the left and/or right arrow on the keyboard to move one frame in either direction while in the Editing mode.

Are you talking about making adjustments in the Trim mode, or just navigating on the timeline?

MtD

[delgadob]

Hello,

I am trying to use the left and right arrows in Premier Pro's Editing mode.

I am trying to precisely move one, two or three frames in the Timeline

to find a very specific edit point.

Again, the blue time code numbers change, but neither the image on the

monitor nor the playback head move.

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[Kib]

You have not accidentally changed the keyboard layout away from the default -- unlikely if timecode is incrementing/decrementing but worth checking.

[ah_photo]

While I use a custom keyboard layout originating from FCP7, I do know that the keyboard commands for navigating 1 frame (L/R Arrows), Nudging Clips 1 frame, and Extending Edit points 1 frame are usually all DIFFERENT keyboard commands.

For example for me:

- Navigation is L/R arrows

- Clip nudge is CTRL + L/R arrows

- Extend edit is the brackets [ ] (and in these cases the edit points must be selected as opposed to a clip)

I have no idea what the default Premiere keyset is though (or Media Composer)

[matthewt34237685]

I would like to know how to trim one frame at a time like you can in Avid Media Composer. I can't seem to figure it out.

[Kib]

Have an edit point selected with the Trim (red) or Ripple (yellow) tool and:

Ctrl-Left/Right Arrows (PC)

Option-Left/Right Arrows (Mac)

[delgadob]

I am just trying to move in the Timeline and trying to get to a specific

frame where I would need to do an edit, or cut the clip, etc.

[Kib]

Hover over your navigation buttons in the Source and Program monitors to see what the current shortcuts are.

Else try the Shuttle/Jog controls

Hold K and tap J or L  for previous or next frame

[jkahlmann · Accepted solution]

Sorry for the late answer, but if your blue timecode is indicating a change in the timecode, perhaps you're in "audio time units" and not your typical frames, meaning you're moving left and right in milliseconds and not frames.

This feature is turned on and off by going to the ☰ (timeline menu button to the right of the sequence's name) and toggling on/off the "Show Audio Time Units" feature. Hope this helps someone.

[BeRuss4]

Hello, there! I had the same problem as OP. I was worried that it was not answered, until I saw your response. Not sure if it worked for OP a year ago, but it certainly fixed my issue. Thank you so much, jkahlmann! 

[Julian_M]

Thanks for this tip!  It fixed my problem - and initially I shared OP's question, until noting the "thousandth" place on the playhead position indicator; found this post after my search included "milliseconds".  Thanks again!

[godwillo13703964]

you're the BEST! thank you.

[Steve-D]

YES!!  This was exactly the solution!  Thank you for taking the time to post, much appreciated.  Brilliant.

[drnewham]

Thank you soo much you are a hero

[defaultck2q0aotghbg]

@jkahlmann  - thank you. You are a legend.

[libbys60663678]

Thank you!! This worked!

[defaultpnsz0w5c6wqq]

This answer saved my life!!! was so frustrated!!!!! I dont even know how it happened, but thank you kind stranger!!!

[yvesmagat]

Aaaaaah. Thank you so much. It was so easy but I had to know. And for some reason the time code was set on Frames. By right-clicking on it I restored it to 25 fps Timecode. Have a nice day.

[rolandeaux]

THANK YOU! saved a ton of time.

[rebeccah24977877]

Thanks. I did some crazy fast mouse move and it selected that before I even realized what happened. So, clicked on that icon, saw the thing you were talking about, and now I'm back to scrubbing frame by frame. Thanks!

[obergz]

Thank you so much man, I've had a problem with this for a couple of days and I really needed to fix it, thanks again you're my hero.

[mmaurus]

Thank you jkahlmann.
This worked perfectly.

[wholetrack]

Arrows do not function when in the Track window - when you click on the Program window arrow keys should work as expected.  

[MyerPj]

When you say 'Track window' to you mean the timeline? I didn't see anyone ask about a track window, so I'm not sure what you are referring to? If it's the timeline window, (which holds sequences and the tracks they contain) then indeed the arrows work very well.