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Every week, we will share a new tooltip to save time when working in Adobe Premiere Pro.
The most recent update to Adobe Premiere, version 26, introduces an undocumented change to the timeline behavior when you perform a ripple trim with the mouse. It’s a rather big change, and I’m not sure why it went undocumented, as you’ll likely notice it pretty quickly the first time you try to perform a Ripple Trim in the timeline using the mouse.
In previous versions of Premiere, if you performed a Ripple trim in the timeline by dragging the trim with your mouse, Premiere would show the yellow trim indicator at the clip edge. Depending on the trim direction, you might see the trimmed clip extend to the right into an additional clip. Trimming back to the left, you’d see what would appear to be a hole being left behind in the timeline.
It wasn’t until you released the mouse that the timeline updated and adjusted to reflect the trim you made by dragging with Ripple trim.
In Premiere 26, this timeline behavior has changed: as you drag the mouse to perform a Ripple trim, the clips in the timeline move with you, showing exactly what is happening as you make the trim.
This might be a bit jarring the first time you encounter it, as you perform a Ripple trim with the mouse, since it’s a very different experience from what you may have been expecting.
This has been a discussion on Reddit, and I hadn’t noticed it yet because I hadn’t upgraded to Premiere 26. I looked through the release notes for Premiere 26 and didn’t see any mention of this, which is rather surprising given it’s a big change from what an editor might be used to. Not everyone seems happy about this change, but I suspect that’s more because it’s rather jarring. But I would argue the new Ripple trimming behavior gives you much better feedback on exactly what is happening in the timeline.
I might not have noticed this new behavior, as I don’t use the mouse to Ripple trim in the timeline very often. In fact, I would argue this is a slow way to trim. You may be better off using the trimming keyboard shortcuts or making use of the Trim Edit function and dynamic trimming. What I do wish is that this new visual trim behavior was active during dynamic trimming, because there’s still no visual indication in the timeline of what is happening when you perform a dynamic trim. Maybe next update.
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