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MAJOR Timeline Problem with Premiere 2023 following Playhead

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October 27, 2022
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I can no longer tell Premier to stop following the Playhead. This is a MAJOR MAJOR problem. Adobe, please, you need to fix this immedietly. If I am playing a sequence and I move away from the playhead, ie further down the sequence, when I pause the sequence, or simply click up in the timeline to move the playhead to where I want to be, the sequnce jumps to wheeever the playhead stopped. This is a HUGE headache and VERY VERY amature. Adobe stop everything you are doing and fix this now please. This is bad, like really really bad.

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MyerPj

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I believe I can duplicate this. As Ann mentioned, you must have "Auto Scroll" off ie: No Scroll in preferences/timeline. It works normally whenever the CTI is on screen. With a somewhat zoomed in timeline, use the horizontal scroll bar at bottom of timeline and move the timeline so the CTI goes off-screen, (no auto scrolling will take place). Click somewhere on the timeline on the numeric scale and PP 23.2 stops and jumps to the current (off-screen) position of the CTI. It's not great.

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SuperSamC

Inspiring

As far as I can tell with the new update 23.5.0, you can click on the timeline numeric scale and it will not jump to the playhead postion anymore. Which is an improvement but, the other issue still exists, where if you press pause/spacebar while the playhead is off screen, it jumps you to the playhead. I can confirm that it never used to be this way, it has greatly interuppted my workflow. @Jeff_Croghan metnioned that this issue disappears and acts the way it should, when you change the program monitor to "Multi-Camera".

Jeff_CroghanAuthor

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Found this in another thread on the same topic.

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?

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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!!!!!!!!

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ashley2758971421nb

Participating Frequently

thank you for sharing this. will be trying it out myself in the meantime!!

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ashley2758971421nb

Participating Frequently

ADOBE, THIS IS A MAJOR TIME SUCK!!! why did you change this??? it slows down editing so much to have ur timeline view force-jump back to where the playhead is rather than where you clicked. having to go back to the prev. version of premiere in order to get away from this feature is also annoying asl. this change helped no one and i'm seeing numerous editors complaining about it. if people are having to get crafty / create shortcuts to work around something you changed, it is not an improvement - it's a mistake

there's another post complaining about it called "Timeline jumps back to playhead anytime I click while playback"

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janisp41753227

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I can't believe this keeps happening after every new release of Adobe... There are more bugs than features.

[Moderator note: text removed due to violation of Adobe policy.]

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janisp41753227

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So, Adobe censors my solution....WHY??? Which policy did I break? Is this how you treat your sheeple? We pay you and overpriced amount of money not to get constant beta versions of you software and then when we try to help each other out you simply censor the solution?

If the moderator has enough time to sniff trough my post and delete part of it, then have the decency to point to which policy I am violating (are you twitter?), because the paradox is that we are all here to help you make a better software, not the other way around - that ship has sailed.

Moderator note:

Edited due to Adobe policy prohibiting discussion of use of the engineers console on their forums.

Peru Bob

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So, Adobe censors my solution....WHY??? Which policy did I break?

By @janisp41753227

Because the moderator (not me) saw that you mentioned use of a method Adobe does not support, and can cause major issues if misapplied.

JoshHunt57

Participating Frequently

i too am having this same trouble

R Neil Haugen

Legend

This is hitting a number of users, and it's really odd. So all details of your system, media, effects used can be helpful to try to sort out some sort of pattern for it.

Neil

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

Ann Bens

Community Expert

Most of the time its a matter of track targeting.

JoshHunt57

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I am not sure my problem is the same or something different. In my case, the playhead just stops. tried everything I have read in various places online. very frustrating.

Emma Kafka

Participating Frequently

I'm also running into this problem! For me, I've noticed it acts up the most when I use CMD+Left/Right key to nudge the clip over a few frames. The playhead will randomly bounce to the beginning of a clip in the middle of the timeline and I lose my place. Also, caption tracks seem to make this react as well.

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SuperSamC

Inspiring

This is not the same issue as the original post.

Peru Bob

Community Expert

Reset preferences?

Delete the Media Cache and Media Cache files:
https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro/faq-how-to-clear-your-media-cache-in-30-seconds-in-premiere-pro-2020/m-p/11017257/thread-id/260446?page=1

Then try resetting the preferences:
https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro/faq-how-to-reset-trash-preferences-in-premiere-pro/td-p/8236158?page=1

R Neil Haugen

Legend

When I've paused Pr, and click in the timecode area, the playhead immediately jumps to where I click ... so maybe I'm not quite understanding your problem?

Neil

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

Jeff_CroghanAuthor

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The problem is not when the timeline is paused. The problem is when the timeline is playing. Lets say the timeline is 2min long. If I zoom in so I'm only seeing a portion of the timeline, lets say 20 seconds, and push play, so now the timeline is playing. Then if while the timeline is playing I move further down the timeline, to lets say the 1min mark, so now the playhead is not visible becuase its back at 20 seconds and its off the timeline screen. then if I push pause the timeline will jump back to where the playhead is. Also if instead of pushing pause I just click in the playruler it acts like a pause and jumps the timeline back to where the playhead is. So if the timeline is playing and then i scroll away from the playhed to find another part of the timeline and then click in the playruler where i want to start working next it will jump back to whee the playhead is and thus loos the spot i was looking for. Attached is an example GIF of whats happening. There use to be an option to turn this off in the prefrences. Ibelieve it said something like "timeleine follows playhead"

R Neil Haugen

Legend

please watch the attached "timeline.gif" video i uploaded. it show how it didnt do that in V22

None of my versions can do the same as you were getting. I don't know how else to say it. I've checked back through the 2019 version. I cannot scroll while playback occurs such that the CTI goes out of sight in any of them.

And in all of them, as playback is going on, if I click in the timeline ruler section, playback stops and the CTI goes to that spot.

So I cannot replicate with any version what you somehow had in 2022.

Neil

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

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