Move Playhead in Sequence like FCP?

[Trent Happel]

Are you displaying audio time units? Make sure you are set to video timecode or frames, then typing in timecode or + or – values in the timecode display (bottom left of Program or Source monitors) should move the playhead.

Trent Happel
Adobe
Premiere Pro

[Hirum Horkweller]

Hey Trent,

Thanks for responding. I’m displaying video timecode (not exactly sure how to display audio only timecode in the sequence).

The strange thing is that if I click on the timecode and type in +10 and press return, the playhead will advance 10 frames. But if I just type +10 and press enter (without clicking in timecode first) it doesn’t work (though it does display “+10” in the timecode while I’m typing).

Is this a glitch or am I missing something? Here are screenshots to show what I’m talking about:

– H

[Hirum Horkweller]

Version of Premiere is 2014.0.1. The more I think about it, I think this must be a glitch.

One more thing worth mentioning: Every time I pressed Enter after entering the timecode it would start playing my timeline from the beginning. I realized that the Enter key is a default shortcut to render and play the sequence. So I disabled it in the shortcuts.

Basically I just want to be able to quickly type + or – and the number of frames I want to move the playhead, like in FCP, without having to use the mouse.

[Trent Happel]

Hmmm, that is odd. This is working for me with PPro CC2014 (8.2).

Trent Happel
Adobe
Premiere Pro

[Hirum Horkweller]

Glitch then, thanks for letting me know. I’ll run the updater.

– H

[Yair Bartal]

Try it all on the Numeric Pad (including the Enter there).

[Hirum Horkweller]

Yeah that’s what I’ve been doing. I’m fairly certain it must have been a glitch. Running an update now and will report back.

– H

[Hirum Horkweller]

OK So I am now running the latest version: 2014.2, 8.2.0 (65) Build

Same problem. If I type (on the numeric pad) +10 (or anything for that matter) and press enter nothing happens.

However, if I click in the timecode window first, and then type +10 and press enter, it moves me ten frames ahead.

Can anyone else confirm this? This is so frustrating.

– H

[Alex Udell]

is any object in the sequence selected?

if so, it might think you are trying to move that object….

just a guess…

Alex Udell
Editing, Motion Graphics, and Visual FX

[Andrew Kimery]

FWIW, I just tried it on my machine (latest build of PPro) and just typing numbers in (+10, -45, etc.,) on the numeric keypad moves the playhead around.