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Why doesn't the playhead snap to an edit point in the Timeline?

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February 11, 2013
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As a recent user of Premiere coming from Final Cut, there is one behavior in Premiere that I can't get used to. When I drag the playhead around while in the Timeline, I expect the playhead to snap to the ends of clips, the edit points, but it doesn't. The reason this is important behavior is because it's often that I want to do something in between two edit points (or at the end of a clip which may not be the last clip on the timeline) such as insert a clip or some other asset. In FCP, as you drag around the playhead, it will snap to various edit points, making it easy to park the playhead at a given location where I will insert a clip. With Premiere, I can get the playhead close, but it won't snap, so I never know if I'm on the exact frame I want. That means I could easily miss the end of a clip by one or two frames and never know it.

Is there a way to force a snap? or change a setting to enable playhead snapping? Of course, I would also like to temporarily disable this behavior by a keystroke, which I assume would be easy to do using the current "snap" toggle keystroke (S).

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Correct answer Ann Bens

When using the mouse and in the proximity of an edit point hold SHIFT, it will snap to that edit point.

MandyDroid_

Participating Frequently

You can try the keyboard shortcut "S". This enables and disables the snap to feature in Adobe products.

Ann Bens

Community Expert

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Keith Pheasant

Participating Frequently

A better point pointed out below by jbellomo‌ is to open Premiere Preferences, General, and check the tap "Snap playhead in timeline". Now it will ALWAYS do it!!

Kyrophaios

Participant

Thanks for this, Keith! I just reinstalled Premiere and wondered what happened to my playhead snapping.

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jbellomo

Inspiring

Check your preferences, on the general tab check Snap playhead in timeline

jzaindustries

Participant

I knew you had to be able to make it automatic without using another keystroke... thanks!

Ann Bens

Correct answer

Community Expert

When using the mouse and in the proximity of an edit point hold SHIFT, it will snap to that edit point.

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joe_bloe_premiere

Inspiring

Nice pick up... I wasn't aware of the feature.

Thanks, Ann.

shooternz

Legend

I never knew that either. Nice.

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Biggles Lamb

Participating Frequently

Pressing the page up or page down key snaps to the edit point

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joe_bloe_premiere

Inspiring

You can use these hot keys:

Go to Previous Edit Point (enabled track) - Up

Go to Next Edit Point (enabled track) - Down

Go to Previous Edit Point on Any Track - Shift+Up

Go to Next Edit Point on Any Track - Shift+Down

Of course, you can re-map these keys to suit your preferences.

Default keyboard shortcuts in CS6

PixelshotWDC2Author

Participant

Thank you. These keystrokes require moving my hand from the mouse to the keyboard (a step not necessary in FCP).Often, I am trying to locate a specific edit point far from where the playhead currently is so I use the mouse to get there more quickly than hitting a key several times. Is there also a way to do it while dragging with the mouse? (Or, to put it more simply, can I set Premiere to mimic the FCP behavior of snapping while scrubbing through the timeline?)

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joe_bloe_premiere

Inspiring

These keystrokes require moving my hand from the mouse to the keyboard

I have mapped them to left hand proximity for the same reason...

keeping my right hand on the mouse.

There is also a UI button in the program monitor for 'Go to Previous/Next Edit Point'.

Is there also a way to do it while dragging with the mouse?

Not that I am aware of.

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