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I am using the 2017.0.2 Premiere release on Windows 10. A small but annoying issue. My favourite way to nudge clips in Premiere is with the alt key+ < or >. But every nudge using this shortcut as of a version or two ago of Premiere causes Windows to ring out with a system sound (the one called 'Asterisk'). To me it seems like although Premiere reads the shortcut as valid and performs the nudge, Windows is somehow reading the use of the alt key as an incorrect operation. I have another editor friend on Windows 10 who indicated he has the same issue with the alt key, and that setting the work area bar with alt+ [ or ] causes the same sound. I'm hoping someone has an idea of how to stop this annoying problem.
Thanks for any help!
Found a solution! Basically just turn off the Default Beep in Windows.
Here's what to do:
Check here for more instructions if you need them: http://www.thewindowsclub.com/disable-system-beep-windows-7-8
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Same here. I just ignore it.
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Same on Windows 8.1 and Premiere Pro CC 2017 and newer.
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Yeah, it's really terrible to only have Ctrl on the right side of the keyboard as a modifier. Especially since I'm coming from a Mac where I had Command, Alt, and Ctrl.
Add a bug report: Feature Request/Bug Report Form
We need this to be fixed.
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Has anyone had a solution to this? Just upgraded to windows 10 and it started happening. It's absolutely maddening.
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Found a solution! Basically just turn off the Default Beep in Windows.
Here's what to do:
Check here for more instructions if you need them: http://www.thewindowsclub.com/disable-system-beep-windows-7-8
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It's weird that you have to disable the beep in the entire operating system but honestly it annoyed me anyway. This worked and I can now edit with much less beeping, thanks!
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(This is still an issue because Adobe) I didn't really like this solution personally because the same default beep plays when testing audio levels in the sound settings, and I use that a lot. Best solution for me is to keep that as it is, then in Premiere replace the keyboard shortcut (Under Edit>Keyboard Shortcuts) with Alt+Del instead of Alt+Backspace.
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OK, I previosusly would have agreed with you ... but, good news!
With Windows 11 (late 2022) the default beep is not used to check volume. It's another 'ding' noise.
I mention this because NONE of the solutions listed here worked, except for changing the default ding.
Also, I agree with the posters who say "What is wrong with Adobe?!" This has been a probkem for ten years.
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Now, this is still annoyed experience when using Pr, it's even very challenging to assign shortcut with Alt key. I see that Adobe could do something more to stop that annoyed sound. I didn't experience that beep sound in After Effect.
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It's VERY VERY VERY annoying!
I want to use ALT + key shortcuts without this WRONG beep! FIX IT pls.
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How is this still a thing? Adobe! How about working with microsoft to fix this default beep on alt keyboard shortcuts.
Premiere Pro ships default with a ton of ALT-keyboard shortcuts which leads me to believe that you actually want the windows default beep to sound every time anyone uses them?
Bah!
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Try turning off your sticky keys through the windows start menu. Press WINDOWS KEY, type "Ease of Access Keyboard", open the app. on the right side there should be an open for USE STICKY KEYS that has a checkbox saying, "Allow the shortcut key to start Sticky Keys". Make sure that option is unchecked because apparently when using photoshop users will hit the shift key multiple times and it will activate the sticky keys feature and then start making everything beep. I just had the issue and this *SEEMS* to have fixed it, but I won't know until it happens again... (fingers crossed that never happens)
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Wow, Steve, thanks! If this works I will be sooooooooo freaking happy! That inexplicable ding that happens sometimes has been driving me CRAZY. It happens in Photoshop and Premier pro. I use shortcut keys as much as possible, so I'm hoping that it's a case of my inadvertently triggering some kind of "access related" beep.
The instructions for finding the settings didn't work for me in Win 10, however. Here is how I found them on my machine:
Click the magnifying glass in the taskbar to search
Type: access
The search results give you the option to open the Ease of Access settings.
Once that dialog opens, just go to the keyboard settings and make the desired changes.
I unchecked all the options to have shortcuts enable Ease of Access Settings.
Fingers crossed that this works!
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I just had the issue and this *SEEMS* to have fixed it, but I won't know until it happens again... (fingers crossed that never happens)
Sticky Keys are the issue here and what you have done do fix the issue. Turning those features off is one of the very first thing i do when i do a fresh install on Windows.
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This is actually the correct answer to the problem. Can a forum moderator please change the "correct answer" in this thread?
Also, depending on your version of Windows, the solution is actually buried in the "Make the keyboard easier to use" settings. Even if nothing is ticked on that first page, you actually need to click the "Set up Sticky Keys" (under the "Turn on Sticky Keys" tick box) and disable the shortcut there. On the "Set up Sticky Keys" page, there is a "Turn on Sticky Keys when SHIFT is pressed five times" tick box that needs to be unchecked.
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Good luck with that.
I'm glad someone actually figured it out.
It's insane that this has been a problem for ten years and adobe has done nothing to rectify it.
I imagine getting a mod to change a correct answer will be like pulling teeth from an alligator.
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The correct answer is to disable the default sound for your entire system? That seems like Adobe's problem, not Windows. I have submitted a request with Adobe to disassociate the default system tone with every modifier click in Premiere. Hopefully others will do the same.
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Like so many "correct answers" here on the forums, this is absolutely not a solution. "Turn off the Windows default sound" (thus, disabling the default sound for EVERY other aspect of the computer's use) is certainly not the solution. The solution is Adobe FIXING THE ISSUE. I should not hear the default ERROR tone every time I press Alt-[every button]. This means regularly used shortcuts like adjusting the work area ( ALT-[ or ] ), shifting clips ( ALT-< or > ), etc., etc. So annoying, and something that's been an issue for a long time.
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There is obviously a problem with one or more of the popular commercial programming libraries (C++ etc.) interacting with Windows 10. The same bug occurs in some other programs, including the latest Zoom client. Serious programmers need to get it together!
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Still a issue. I've tried reaching out on a couple occassions and they just pass the ball. It's a windows feature and our feature is working as intended. If there intention is to annoy the heck out of their users. Then GREAT SUCCESS!!
I have yet to find a solution. I tried the Sticky keys, Mine was already off and turning it off ( to see what would happen) made it worse.
So, its a constant DING DING DING.
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I was able to disable it in my windows options without (seemingly) disabling anything else.
I don't remember exactly what I messed with, but I'll see if I can save the profile, and pass it on.
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Just to update, have suddenly encountered the same issue in Premiere 23.2.0 (current latest version), with up to date version of Windows. Deselecting all Sticky Keys options does not seem to have resolved the problem.
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willT,
Just saw this thread looking for something else. I do not see this point made above, but may have missed it.
Windows 10, Settings -> Ease of Use -> Narrator -> Change what you hear when typing -> "Hear Shift, Alt, and other modifier keys as you type"
Or just search for "alt," and pick that item.
I assume that deselecting this would not affect actual system sounds. Mine was already deselected, and I'm not having the problems described here. But this is an old thread, Windows behaviors may have changed, and there are multiple issues being discussed.
Stan
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Fwiw this issue persists for me with those same settings deselected. Win10, Pr 23.6.0