Bug - Can't select cuts when the playhead is on top of it

When the playhead is right on the cut between two clips, we can't select it.
We have to move the play head on the side

+1
It’s been that way as long as I can remember and it’s a very time consuming defect since one encounters it so often every day. Sure hope they remedy this!

I was able to select the edit point in both Selection and Trim mode. The mouse icon doesn't change, but clicking will select anyway.

Oh I so hope this has been addressed on macOS as well!

Oh I so hope this has been addressed on macOS as well!

It has.

Totally fine here for trim mode under MacOS. If I hold "w" for slip mode, the line under the cursor will start flickering in yellow when I press the mouse button, but slip works as expected nevertheless.

I noticed this problem for the first time in V19 too.

Version 19 Studio, Windows 11, RTX 4080, i9, 96GB RAM

When I didn't see the icon of the change with 19, I didn't even bother to try to click and drag my cut point.

We can move the playhead by grabbing its red line everywhere on the timeline. And if you are not being careful, on a filled timeline, you could think you grab it, but grab a clip and move it around. Was it always like this?

I don't remember moving, even by accident, the playhead like that. Always move it from the timecode zone.

In trim mode, the icon will revert to the arrow too if going over the line, which could be right over a cut.

I noticed this problem for the first time in V19 too.

Version 19 Studio, Windows 11, RTX 4080, i9, 96GB RAM

I'm still getting this issue with 19.2b. I can't see, or easily select, the green centre trim handle if my playhead is on the edit point. I don't remember this happening in pre-version 19.

Dupe thread.

viewtopic.php?f=38&t=199572

Until BM fixes it, a workaround is to click on the cut without moving the mouse. The mouse pointer will change to indicate what's going to happen and you can then drag as you wanted or release the mouse button and play Myst with the cut point until you find the action you need. sucks but I find that less annoying than moving the playhead just so I can change the length of a clip.

This is a hundred years old problem.
Play head is in the way, cannot trim the clip or do other things at the edge of it.
please stop playhead line from blocking mouse interaction

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This line is a representation. It does not have interactive function. Its just a line.
It should not block anything behind it.

I’d heard they fixed this. Is that not so?

i heard from a utuber who does videos on updates all the time it was fixed maybe 2 months ago or more but i found it not to be true. It simply changed the way it behaves.

Click on the cut point and the cursor will change to show you what will happen. You have to move the mouse around to get to the right point sometimes but edits do work

but......
there are so many butts
i have confirmed to my self over and over that they dont listen to users.
they do what they do and will continue to do so.
why do i even bother.

Dude, this is the beta forum. If you aren't going to at least *try* to help BM make 19 better, why are you here?

v19b2
It's still a bit broken - though the behavior is markedly improved.

While you have to click in the ruler to the playhead to a new place in the timeline, the design seems to be that you can grab the playhead anywhere along the line and drag it. Thus the line is intentionally an active grab target (I wish this were a setting). In the beta the priority of the playhead is now lower than that of the edit's edges AS LONG AS THE EDGE CONNECTS TO ANOTHER CLIP. If the edge abuts empty space then the playhead still takes priority.

It seems like a simple fix to give the edit edge priority in this case as well and I hope BMD does so.

The pointer still doesn't take note that the edit rather than the playhead will be selected so the pointer is incorrect. Hopefully the correct pointer change will be implemented in the near future.