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Turn off "Selection follows playhead" PERMANENTLY!

Participant ,
Nov 13, 2017 Nov 13, 2017

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This one is a real pain. A lot of people like this feature when Lumetri panel is open, I don't. Is there an option to turn it off permanently? Currently, it gets checked automatically every-time I switch to the Lumetri Workspace. Seriously need a way to stop this behaviour!

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Enthusiast ,
Jan 25, 2023 Jan 25, 2023

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"Selection follows playhead" always defaults to "on" upon launch.

 

It should, of course, instead default to the state the user last selected.

 

R.

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Community Expert ,
Jan 25, 2023 Jan 25, 2023

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Moved to Ideas as its not a bug.

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New Here ,
Jan 31, 2023 Jan 31, 2023

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I've fought with the same issue for what seems like 2 years.  I do NOT want this feature on, and I set up a single keystroke to turn it off (the ";" key on my keyboard), but every time I turn around, it turns itself back on.  So ANNOYING!!!

 

Moderator Note: References to engineering debug tools are removed. 

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Community Beginner ,
Feb 02, 2023 Feb 02, 2023

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Selection Follows Playhead is set to on when you open a project if you have the Lumetri Color panel open, even if you had it set to OFF when you last had the project open. 

 

Please change this to default OFF in either state (Lumetri Color panel open or not). 

 

 

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Explorer ,
Feb 08, 2023 Feb 08, 2023

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I have disabled focus follows playhead but still the clips keep on getting selected when I scroll on the timeline.

never happened before latest update 23.1.0

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Explorer ,
Feb 09, 2023 Feb 09, 2023

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Problem solved! it was the 'Selection Follows Playhead' in Sequence drop down. Not the 'Focus' in Timeline Preferences.

 

thanks - Pete

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Enthusiast ,
Feb 09, 2023 Feb 09, 2023

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I have the same bug to report! "Selection Follows Playhead" KEEPS turning itself ON despite me repeatedly turning the *** thing OFF in the Sequence menu! Please, Adobe, fix this stupid bug! (And I'm not relaunching PPro - merely switching to a different app and back to PPro).

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New Here ,
Feb 09, 2023 Feb 09, 2023

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Yeah I hate this one. Always turns itself back on as I'm editing and I always have to turn it off. 

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New Here ,
Mar 05, 2023 Mar 05, 2023

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Oops...posted before I finished my thought...

 

I have never posted here and yet here I find myself...Ive been using Premiere for 8 years now and this is by far the most annoying BUG ever. I cant tell you how many times Ive had to revert a project because I didnt notice the focus kept switching to a clip when I thought I was editing an adjustment layer. Adobe can say it works as intended but if it works to the dettriment of a large subset of users..it is not working as we intended, learned or use in our workflow. Three times this morning Ive had to go back and turn it off which prompted me to find a fix immediately. Low and behold I find this thread. Set this flawed "feature" to remember our last setting and be done with it. Im getting sick of having to redo work because my preferred NLE thinks it knows what I want in this instance. I would prefer an acceptable fix over having to learn another NLE. Then again...maybe I'll just have AI do all my edits from now on.

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Engaged ,
Jun 15, 2023 Jun 15, 2023

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At the moment, even having the Lumetri Color panel be a part of a custom workspace, even if it's not used in a session, is enough to turn back on Selection Follows Playhead at launch, which means you have to turn it off every time you launch Premiere. Also many might want it to not come on automatically for Lumerti, not so much that it's not useful there, but more than you have to remember to turn it off again to edit. So it should be a preference to change this behaviour.

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Community Beginner ,
Jun 15, 2023 Jun 15, 2023

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Actually, you CAN turn it off forever.

Try to find the right how-to video on YT (if I post the link here this message will be deleted immediately).

Kind regards, good luck

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Engaged ,
Jun 16, 2023 Jun 16, 2023

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I'll have a look. (Found it, thanks.)

For now, I've resaved my custom workspace without Lumetri Color in it and that seems to work (at least in not turning it on when Pr starts). If I hit the shortcut to switch to Lumetri it opens where I want it. SFP turns on for Lumetri and then turns off when I switch away from the panel - this I think is how it was designed to work, which I can see is pretty useful and I wish I'd worked this out years ago. But it should work like this even with Lumetri as a background tab in the custom workspace, so this is a workaround.

 

Still the feature request remains overall.

Update - actually this workaround doesn't work in the long term, because once you've opened Lumetri in a cutom workspace, that custom workspace stays as you left it on restarting Premiere, meaning SFP comes back on. So I will try with the other method that has been hinted at for now and see how I get on with that.

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Community Beginner ,
Jul 07, 2023 Jul 07, 2023

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This works (sorry if someone already posted this):

 

Moderator Note: Link/text removed. Sorry. Please do not use the internal developer tool to change the application.
It is against the corporate guidelines and is a request from Adobe Premiere Pro engineering.

 

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Community Beginner ,
Jul 10, 2023 Jul 10, 2023

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In fact, this Moderator Note ("Please do not use the internal developer tool to change the application.") is a good reference to the solution, which in turn can be found on yt.

 

Please do not change moderators text to your own advantage: edited: Moderator.

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Community Beginner ,
Sep 11, 2023 Sep 11, 2023

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This is an annoying problem for me too. I use tilde in the program window to look at the video larger and it's back on every time. It never stays. It's the only thing and I don't want it when I haven't turned it on.

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New Here ,
Nov 20, 2023 Nov 20, 2023

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it's 11_20_23 and this is still an issue

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Community Beginner ,
Nov 20, 2023 Nov 20, 2023

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it's 11_20_23 and this is still an issue

 

surprise :))

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Explorer ,
Dec 07, 2023 Dec 07, 2023

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It's driving me nuts. I'm not in the Lumetri panel, yet every time I open a project in premiere selection follows playhead is always selected. Is my premiere glitched? Is there a default setting menu somewhere where I can turn it off? I never want it on.

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LEGEND ,
Dec 07, 2023 Dec 07, 2023

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In the Menu bar, Sequence tab, Selection Follows Playhead ... uncheck that.

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Explorer ,
Dec 07, 2023 Dec 07, 2023

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Yeah, but it's switched back on every time I open a project. I think my premiere is bugged. Might reinstall, but not annoying enough to be worth it.

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Community Beginner ,
Dec 12, 2023 Dec 12, 2023

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Here's how to turn it off permanently so it won't keep happening - this works!

[Link removed]

Moderator note:
Edited due to Adobe policy prohibiting discussion of use of the engineer's console on their forums.

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Enthusiast ,
Dec 13, 2023 Dec 13, 2023

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@jasony40939794 Sadly in PPro 2024 (neither release nor beta) that option no longer exists in the console. I've searched all probable permutations of what it might be called with no luck 😢.

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Community Expert ,
Dec 13, 2023 Dec 13, 2023

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Seems to stay turned off in the Beta.

I just love this feature, have it always turned on.

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New Here ,
Dec 13, 2023 Dec 13, 2023

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I hate that the engineers made this feature DEFAULT to ON and gave us no way to turn it off permanently.

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Explorer ,
Dec 13, 2023 Dec 13, 2023

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I use 24.0.0 and it is in options menu.

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