Switching modes changes workspace

There are some things about the Color Mode … or probably easier to think of as “page” … that aren’t user settable. While the Color mode is giving us options, for moving things around, they are not the same as the ones for Edit mode.

So … Color Mode is going to be different, and you can’t make it the same as Edit. It’s not as bad as Resolve, where there are very few user UI settings, but it’s not as configurable as say with the Lumetri panel which was as configurable as any other panel.

Color Mode is not a “panel” of Premiere, it is its own separate workspace. You’re welcome to make a feature request for changes of course ...

​@natejmt4,

I’ve been curious about this, since I have 2 monitors, but functionally have all the UI in one. Workspaces are now completely separate for the Edit and Color modes. This wasn’t an issue for the Export mode, since it has only one “workspace.” Logically, what you want seems possible, but we don’t know what is happening “behind the scenes” to go from one mode to another, and it may limit the options.

So when you talk about setting custom saved workspaces, I wonder what you are doing. I just created a workspace in the Edit mode and named it 1 Edit (so it sorts at the top in the Windows → Workspaces and gets assigned keyboard shortcut Alt+Shft+1), and then create a space in Color mode named 1 Color. With the same or different names, they are going to be different entities. Unless I pick a different workspace, when I click Edit (mode) or Color, I am always in the workspace for that mode.

What I cannot test, is what happens to your monitors when you do that. And does it make any difference how you assign panels in each mode.

I know ​@R Neil Haugen has described issues with multiple monitors, and that some options simply do not work. I don’t recall the details (he will), but imagine if the Program Monitor has to stay in the same location for each of the “parallel” workspaces. That might be easy, but other elements might not.

It’s a good Beta issue: what are the correct workflow/workspace setups for the new color/edit mode workspace realities?

Stan