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craigb2008480
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December 10, 2020
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Strange selection behaviour in Premiere timeline

  • December 10, 2020
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Hi all,

I've been noticing something weird with the last couple of versions of Premiere. When selecting objects in the timeline by clicking and dragging a box over them, often random tracks/clips won't be selected. It's not related to the linked selection toggle or what tracks are activated, and there doesn't seem to be a pattern as to when it happens. Has anyone else had a similar issue?

cheers

Craig

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MyerPj
Community Expert
MyerPjCommunity Expert
Community Expert
October 30, 2024

FWIW: Back in the day, some software, CorelDraw would select objects if any part of the marquee would touch it (or was it the opposite?), while other softwares, would select only object competely within the marquee. I think YMMV.

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AJ2883275146ff
Inspiring
October 30, 2024

Hey! It's almost 2025, and I just wanted to let it be known that they still haven't fixed it. Selection is still going crazy. You will eventually, delete some work. Okay, bye. ✌️

R Neil Haugen
R Neil Haugen
Legend
October 30, 2024

@Richard M Knight @Warren Heaton10841144 @Kevin-Monahan 

 

Comments or explanation, anyone?

Everyone's mileage always varies ...
Warren Heaton
Community Expert
Warren HeatonCommunity Expert
Community Expert
October 30, 2024

I see the issue in the samples posted and that must be frustrating.

I am unable to reproduce this with Premiere Pro 24.6.3 (Build 4), macOS v.13.6.7.0, AMDRadeonX5000 Kernel Extension v.4.1.4.0.

 

I am also unable to reproduce this with Premiere Pro 25.0.0 (Build 61), Windows v.10.0.22631.1, Intel(R) Iris(R) Xe Graphics v.32.0.101.5763, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU v.32.0.15.5612.

 

- Warren 

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    Sami Succar
    Inspiring
    December 10, 2020

    Yes I've noticed that too, and I still haven't figured it out completely. But it seems that if you drag the selection from the audio part of the timeline, the video only gets selected when you drag all the way past its track.

     

    I don't know if it's a bug or they decided to change the selection behaviour for some unknown reason (as is customary for Adobe lately).

     

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    craigb2008480Author
    Participant
    December 10, 2020

    It's bizarre right? I went through a help chat session with someone from Adobe and the only thing they wanted to try was resetting all my preferences (keyboard shortcuts, workspaces etc) which I can't really do right now being in the middle of a project. Also kept trying to suggest that it's due to Linked Selection but it's definitely not related to that

     

     

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