Why can't I assign a custom keyboard shortcut to Command + J?

[Ryan24743624wpcn]

I want to assign a custom keyboard shortcut to Command + J, I do so in the keyboard shortcuts screen, but it doesn't actually execute when I press the shortcut. Any idea why?

[Ann Bens]

What is the shortcut suppose to do?

[Ryan24743624wpcn]

It won't work no matter what I assign to it. But ideally I'm trying to assign "go to previous edit point".

[Ryan24743624wpcn]

I've tried just about everything. Booting in safe mode to help rule out a conflicting hotkey—still didn't work. I tried assigning other commands to Cmd + J and nothing works. I tried assigning Cmd + J in other apps, and they work just fine. I Just can't get it to work in Premiere Pro....

The most I could find is that Command + J is no longer listed as a default shortcut, but at one time it used to be the shortcut for the 'title templates' window... according to this website: https://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/create-and-share-title-templates-in-premiere-pro/

Is this just a bug? Or a conflict I'm not seeing? Or?

[Ann Bens]

Com/ctrl+J works but not for go to previous edit point which is UP.

Which version are you using.

The link is for the Legacy titler which is long gone.

[Ryan24743624wpcn]

I'm not referring to the default shortcuts. I'm talking about going into the keyboard shortcuts window and mapping my own custom action to CMD + J... ie: assigning "go to previous edit point" to that CMD + J.

[SwindlerCave]

I've made several custom shortcuts successfully, but I can confirm: I am not able to assign "Go to Previous Edit Point" to Ctrl-J either.  It looks like it applied, and is still there when I re-open the Keyboard Shortcuts editor.  But it doesn't execute the assigned command (even if I explicitly un-assign the original - Up - as well).

I tried assigning it to "Show Audio Time Units" (a command I already have a custom shortcut for) and it works fine.  So that rules out a third-party program (I run AutoHotKey) interfering or Premiere Pro secretly ignoring Ctrl-J for some reason.

I also tried mapping "Go to Previous Edit Point" to a completely unused combo (Ctrl-F11 in my case) and it works fine, so that rules out Premiere Pro secretly preventing that command from being used by another hotkey.

[Ryan24743624wpcn]

@SwindlerCave  Thanks for trying that out on your end! What you made me realize is that it seems the 'panel specific' shorcuts WILL work with CMD+J but the 'application wide' shorcuts WON'T.

I really want to be able to use CMD+J in the way I described above, but the only way that I've been able to is via Keyboard Maestro. I assign "go to previous edit point" to CMD + H in Premiere, then assign CMD + J to trigger CMD + H when using Premiere. So I have a workaround but I'd still like to know why I can't assign it directly in Premiere.