Premiere Pro Effect Controls Slider not working

[jamiehosie]

My ability to use the mouse slider to change things like position, scale, opacity etc. in Effect Controls has suddenly stopped working, meaning the only way I can change them is by typing new values in. This is, needless to say, hugely frustrating.

I have tried a hard reset of Premiere, and have also trashed my preferences - neither of these worked. I've read a couple of other threads on this issue, but neither really come to a conclusion that fixes the problem - can anybody help?

[Guest]

Moving to the Premiere Pro forum from Get Started

[Byron Cortez]

Upload screenshots with the clip selected in timeline and Effects Control visible please. 

[jamiehosie]

It's not specific to one clip, one sequence or even one project - it's happening with everything.

[Byron Cortez]

Did you click on these little arrows? When you click, the sliders should be.

[jamiehosie]

Ah I'm talking about something slightly different - when you click and drag on the numbers themselves, that's what's not working for me. Those sliders still work but there isn't one for position, which is what I use the most.

[Byron Cortez]

Ohhh ok ok. That's very rare. Be shure that PrPro is up to date.

[eric6C1C]

I'm having the same issue. I even installed an old version of premium pro same across the board. I just got a new Mac and new magic mouse and its really slowing down my work.

[athletic_inventor15B9]

I have this same issue.  The mouse scrub works in After Effects but not Premiere.  Has been that way through all updates.  Every so often, if I click at just the right time/place, it allows me to scrub.  Otherwise, the box changes to allow a typed input only.  Have just been living with it but, as I use AE a lot more, it's getting frustrating to not have this option in PP.  Thanks for making this post. 

[Jeff Bugbee]

Do you have any tablet/Wacom drivers installed?

[Peru Bob]

I had that happen to me once. I didn't have my Num Lock on.  Try making sure that the keyboard Num Lock is on.

[jamiehosie]

I'm on a mac so don't have a Num Lock...

[mayfliesmayfly!]

This just saved me!  I was have a ton of issues selecting and moving stuff within my timeline and this really helped.

[Peru Bob]

Try resetting the preferences:
https://community.adobe.com/t5/Premiere-Pro/FAQ-How-to-reset-trash-preferences-in-Premiere-Pro/td-p/...

If that doesn't work, try resetting the Workspaces:
Reset a workspace
Reset the current workspace to return to its original, saved layout of panels.
1. Do one of the following:
• Click the Workspace menu icon and select Reset to Saved Layout.
• Choose Window > Workspace > Reset to Saved Layout.
from here:
https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/workspaces.html

[doggiel41865706]

This didn't solve it 😞 

I'm having the same issue as the original post- the position slider is all of a sudden missing and I can't change the position of anything unless i want to keep entering the exact values

[Jeff Bugbee]

Do you have any tablet/Wacom drivers installed?

[Dead End]

Just signed up here. I'm having a similar problem, I need to scroll into the 60,000's all of a sudden to change pos. What would problem would tablet drivers be causing?

[Jeff Bugbee]

I've seen issues where Wacom input was somehow different from mouse input. As you can see from this thread, I asked on two diffrent occasions if they were using a Wacom tablet. I can only assume from the lack of replies that they stopped using their Wacom tablet, their issue was resolved and they forgot to follow back up.

[limabeanpotato]

I'm currently experiencing the same problem as described by jamiehosie above, and am running CC 2020 on a Macbook withouth a Wacom tablet.

Today is the first time I've ever experienced this--I edited with Premiere less than a week ago and don't remember running into any issues (although it was a simple project for my mom and I may not have even opened Effect Controls).

[Nam Tran]

I've had this problem for almost 2 years actually. I only recently installed wacom drivers 6+ months ago, so that wacom drivers doesn't explain why I had this issue previously.

I tested this on 3 different windows 10 PCs and they all had the same issue, but none of the macs did. It seems to be a problem with something related to the windows version of premiere and whatever drivers people would normally have on windows that made it so 3 different people's PCs had the exact same problem.

[Boka2112]

Try using only one monitor for premiere pro.  

[randyoutsidethebox]

I am having the same issue, just started when updating to 14.3.0

SUPER frustrating. I'm so used to mouse click and dragging on the underlined number value to adjust and now I can't.

When you hover over the number the cursor changes to arrows pointing out, like you should be able to drag, but you can't.

Here's a short screen capture. When the cursor disappears, that's when I'm trying to click and drag. https://youtu.be/5JH3feNMM6Y

Adobe, thanking you in advance for a solve for this!

[Peru Bob]

Is your Num lock on?

I had this issue with an older version when my Num lock was off.

[Peru Bob]

Is your Num lock on?

I had this issue on an older version when my Num lock was off.

[randyoutsidethebox]

On Mac. No Num lock.