Now in Beta: Rounded corners in the timeline

I like the rounded corners! I also liked them in Rush. I teach both Premiere Rush and Premiere Pro, and in my experience, it's easier for beginners to find out where the start and end of a clip is when the corners are rounded. The only thing that's bothering me is the current way the white corners for "beginning/end of source" are showing. Need a new solution for that. Otherwise I'm happy with these changes!

The rounded corners don't bother me so much, so I think I could live with them.

However, something rounded corners would be VERY helpful with would be if they could be rounded only where there is no abutting clip, and square when there is an abutting clip.  That way we could see at a glance where those pesky 1-frame gaps between clips are regardless of timeline zoom.  If you see a round corner, there's a gap.  If no round corners, no problems.

The emphasis on it looking "friendlier" is a little on the nose, these programs are also used by professionals that really just need to get work done, not fight more and more with a UI that now looks like there's a 1 frame gap between every clip. I really just have to agree with most here that this change almost feels backwards and just awkward in general. Meanwhile a bunch of windows in the new UI have had their window titles removed for no reason and just left with a completely white title bar.

This new change is effectively just adding more visual clutter to a UI that's already getting increased visual clutter. Basic things are starting to require more and more time to quickly parse on the timeline which ultimately just makes our jobs more and more difficult bit by bit as time goes on.

Yes, Doppa said it clearer than I did, but what I was getting at is for rounded corner clips to "add them only where there is a gap between two clips". This would give the value and look of rounded corners and immediatly give us information on our timeline. A win/win. 🙂

I hope you'll reconsider making this optional. It looks like there is a 1 frame gap between all of the shots!

I don't see the benefit in a professional editing program looking more friendlier. I use Premiere for work. I think it's obvious that this decision is influenced by the look of Resolve.

Was this feature requested by a significant amount of users? Have users complained about Premiere looking unfriendly?

It's astonishing how major corporations like Adobe and Microsoft still struggle to design a modern UI that's both aesthetically pleasing and inspiring. The issue with Premiere Pro's UI isn't the sharp corners on clips; in fact, that's one of the features I love most about the software, as it makes it easier to identify gaps between clips. A better approach to implementing rounded corners without compromising this functionality would be to add them only where there is a gap between two clips. The real problem lies in the distracting vertical lines that appear between each thumbnail and the overall depressing, dated feel of the UI—especially when compared to competitors like DaVinci Resolve.

Don't get me wrong, Premiere Pro is far superior to DaVinci Resolve in terms of ease of use and layout flexibility. However, it's being let down by constant bugs and an uninspiring UI. Resolve may be clunky and complicated, but it's clear that Blackmagic knows how to design a fantastic-looking modern UI with great color science—something Adobe lacks. While Premiere Pro excels in usability and flexibility, Resolve is leagues ahead in UI design. Its interface is sleek, modern, and easy on the eyes while maintaining enough contrast for all UI elements to be completely legible.

The reason for this is simple: Resolve's UI isn't 100% flat, doesn't use exclusively dull shades of grey, and maintains a balance between visibility and visual comfort. Adobe desperately needs to hire an actual UI/UX designer who knows what they're doing and can overhaul the Premiere Pro UI, along with the rest of the Adobe CC Suite. There are plenty of talented designers on platforms like Dribbble.

I notice in the OP, @Francis-Crossman17221443 screenshots. The rounded corner clips look quite good when they stand alone (like say sound effect). But when they are connected to other clips, it's less so, and indeed, makes it harder to see gaps.

FWIW: My monitors in front of me both have square corners. I've opted for round corner on program windows in Win11, but in Chrome, in the page display area, it's 3 square corners and 1 rounded corner, all the paper and envelopes on my desk have square corners. The vast majority of icons on my desktop have square corners.

Yes, I have square adobe icons, because I like them better, (I also have them setup so they stay that way, and I can update on the year change by just changing an environment variable). ("C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Premiere Pro %ppyear%\Adobe Premiere Pro.exe")

If it's true as some of the more angry posters say - you aren't following MacOS UI design - I'm happy with that, but one thing MS has kept doing is making changes for change sake. Hopefully we don't have to go down that road.

Lastly here, I turn off all the OS 'animations' I can, to try and keep things crisp and fast:

That's sort of the goal we all have towards Premiere.

Cheers and well done on many things, I like the new colors and the color management is way cool, thanks. 🙂

Just tested it and sorry guys this design needs to go back to drawing board, I understand you want to copy the look of the hot new kid on the block (Resolve) but please copy just the good parts. Like multiple people mentioned this design makes it impossible to see small gaps (and yes that issue also exists with Resolve) unless you zoom in a lot. With the recent changes, like not being able to clearly see which clips have Source Effects applied etc. and now this, you lot seem to forget that Usability is number one always.

Premiere needs to keep its own identity, not trying to copy stuff from other software.

The head and tail markers are really hard to see with the new rounded corners. I little bump up in size would help.

And the FX button is hardly visible. I preferred the Fx but at the head of the clip, so you don't need to scroll all the way over to get to it, and also the colored options on the Fx.

Thanks for all the work that is being done on PP. Very cool stuff.

I like most of the changes so far, but the timeline and monitor buttons could use a splash of color, like a color (blue) background when selected rather than boring old grey.