Hover Scrub stops working once a clip is selected

[natedrake973]

In Premiere, when I select a clip of any size/codec/wrapper/location, hover scrub no longer works on that clip.

While not selected, all clips scrub just fine. The awkward "workaround" that I've been doing for as long as I can remember is to click, drag and move the clip, then scrubbing resumes.

However if you click another clip, or drag the working clip to a sequence, then click on it again in the bin, Hover Scrubbing has stopped working again.
I'm seeing this behavior on two different PCs even after updating all display drivers and clearing all cache files manually.

This bug has existed as long as I can recall, but let's say at least the last 6 months.

I couldn't find anything via google or the forum about this particular issue.

Plus the workaround is not really workable for daily editing.

Is anyone else experiencing this problem?

Has anyone found a better workaround than moving the clip every time you need to scrub?

I made a quick screen capture of the problem in action:

[Ann Bens · Accepted solution]

This is by design.

I checked 2017 and shows the same behaviour.

Want to hover scrub the selected clip just select another clip.

Or ctrl+shift+A will deselect.

[natedrake973]

Thanks for the clarification Ann!

It seems a weird choice if by design tho right? Surely the benefit of Hover to Scrub was supposed to be a quicker/slicker way to mark in and out points. But from what I can see, I can only mark in an out points while scrubbing on a selected clip (only achievable with the click and drag workaround) so if I can only scrub deselected clips then I can't mark in and out points quickly.

There's definitely potential to develop the Hover Scrubbing feature into something really useful for choosing selects faster!

[Ann Bens]

When hover scrubbing on a non selected clip use I and O shortcut to mark in and outpoint.

[natedrake973]

Ah that's interesting! That function doesn't work for me. I have remapped the mark in and out to different keys within the Premiere keyboard shortcuts panel. I wonder if that is part of the problem I am seeing. I have to select a clip and move it before I can set in/out with keyboard shorts

[Ann Bens]

If you hoverscrub do you see a very thin blue line (opposite to a thicker blue line when selected) under the clip?