How to Turn On/Off Auto Clip Selection in Premiere Pro Timeline

By default when you are scrubbing on your timeline in Premiere Pro it will select the clip automatically while scrubbing. Today I'll show you how you can turn on or turn off auto clip selection in the Premiere Pro timeline while scrubbing.

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[mrjotz]

I've found the feature to be SO annoying! I was looking all over the preferences menus trying to turn it off.

You've saved me loads of frustration. Thanks!

[AJForShort]

Thank you SO MUCH for making this clear, concise, and to the point. You just saved me so much headache bro!

[PjCastillo]

Thank you for giving me the information I needed within the first 24 seconds. I appreciate concise help with tips like this so much!

[Drstevezissou]

Bless you sir, for making such a clear and concise video to answer this question. The world needs more Heroes like you. Thank you!

[robertstate]

Thank you for such a simple how-to on disabling that annoying feature. It causes so many headaches when trying to edit with in/out points instead of add-edits. I really thought I was going nuts. Every edit required me to click OUT of the selected clip before performing the edit. Geesh!

[marcofernandes]

Thank you! 10 seconds of your video save me half and hour of work

[geekyfungi]

This is a fantastic option to have enabled. I am editing on a different computer than I'm used to and this option wasn't enabled so I searched for it here and that's how I found your video. Thank you for making this and sharing it. You just saved me a lot of frustration. I looked everywhere in Edit > Preferences and couldn't find it.

[vanderlindenvideo]

after 10 yrs of editing, finally found this solution, thank you! 😍😍

[mashjuegos]

22 seconds to fix a problem, you are a hero

[AdamSacchetti-dgzo]

This is a must for faster editing. Thanks for reminding me on how to turn this back on!

[mbrltrpress]

You are my hero. This auto select has been driving me insane!

[leopolck]

The ONLY place where I could find it. Thanks!

[CharlieShread]

Thank you! I forgot how to turn this on/off and I've been searching to switch this off. I find this tool useful for colour grading, but generally for cutting and moving clips around I find it really annoying.

[wyroy]

dude i love this feature and couldn't figure out how to turn it on -- thank you!

[nicocoregames]

Thanks for this video! It was really helpful, it was giving me a lot of problems haha

thanks!!

[TAPSM]

James you legend! Currently editing a huge online course project and for some reason this feature stopped and I was searching everywhere on the internet for this!!! Thank you SO MUCH! FOR MAKE THIS QUICK VIDEO!!!

[RanivusCh]

Thank you very much for this video. Pros and cons of the auto clip selector helps alot!
I'm used to the option being off but i can see how it can be helpful in some situations.
Adding toggle to turn the option on and off is ideal for me.

To add to your information if you have multiple clips layered over each other, it will auto select the top most clip.

[rocklee]

May the universe bless you forever! I was looking for this solution for days now, thank you so much for making this 🥺😇

[GalleryATV]

Thank you sir! I work with a bunch of small clips and this is visually annoying! It distracts me because I continually scrub back and forth after cutting and moving a bunch of small segments and this just annoys me to death because it just started with the newest Premiere Pro update ... thanks again! Glad to see it can be easily togged on and off.

[Notsram]

Wow, THANK YOU.
Such a small thing, but just what I needed.