Bring back the old default track height

I've been in professional image work near 40 years.

For 23 years, we had a full wet lab to do custom color printing for our studio and others.

Do you think we're still running that?

Everything in imaging is constantly changing. It doesn't matter if you're professional, devoted amateurs, or just occasional users.

It will always be changing. Period.

Yea, that's a pain at times. I don't know how many computers we've been through, but it's a lot. Every 5 years or so i have to get a completely new beast.

That's Life. Doesn't matter if I like it or not. Everything is always changing.

Just saw Neil's response, so providing answers for him. My frustration isn't with him, but with Adobe, to be clear. 🙂

I don't have presets for track heights, because I never need them. I'm not a professional video producer. What I do is a hobby, and I don't need nor want tall audio tracks, or multiple presets. I don't think there's anything odd about it. I work in limited space and the layout I use is optimized for my workflow. If I wanted tall audio tracks in the first place, I'd use them.

Keep in mind that I'm not against adding features or other people using tall audio tracks, presets, whatever. The issue is that Adobe keeps changing things that make it inconvenient for significant chunks of their consumer base.

"We're adding new features and making you use them by default. No we're not going to make it intuitive for you to go back. Isn't this awesome?!"

"Hey guess, what? We're taking away this entire panel, and now you have to find how to do this elsewhere in our program. Have fun!"

"Oh man, you're going to love this new workflow you never asked for! Get this: The button you've been pressing for years? Gone! And all it's siblings, too. We've replaced it with another set of buttons you can't access the same way. You're welcome!"

Thanks, didn't know you can double click on one track to change its height.  Still would prefer a keyboard shortcut option, but lots of options.

@Jonas5ED1 this video is a good collection of different ways of manual track height adjustment. I use opt.+scroll most of the time. But it's worth experimenting with all the double-click options (with opt and/ or command and/or shift) in the track selction area.

https://youtu.be/36OBQEvltQ0

Chiming in way after the fact, but Premiere 2025 has a "Minimize All Tracks" function that is keyboard-mappable.  Still doesn't address the pain points alluded to in this thread, but it does get all V and A tracks to their slimmest with one click.  (I still wish that the increase/decrease track height function worked on selected tracks – as Media Composer's does – and not all of them, so I wouldn't have to manually shrink back down a track I didn't want increased)

this a video on how to creat keyboard prest untill thy fix this: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVyJmSFF-9Y

Have created a track height preset and set a shortcut but I have to hit this shortcut EVERY TIME A NEW TRACK IS CREATED OR A CLIP IS ADDED.

For the love of God, how do we set a default so we don't have to fight the program all day, every day? Or am I missing something basic here?

Any help much appreciated.

This is really frustrating. Please, Adobe developers, address this issue and provide us with a solution. Why isn't there a setting that allows us to preset the track heights? This really makes the user experience irritating.

@fredrik78847280 - "professional editing for me also means being less busy with the editing software itself and spending my time efficiently on creating projects" 

Holy moly you hit the nail on the head!! This is EXACTLY how I feel. I'm also with you on enjoying new features (love the addition of the visual audio fades on nose and tails of clips in this last update) but only when they make sense. Example being when Premiere decided to shift to the different import/edit/export panels and hide workspaces in a menu that made you have to click more in order to change formats. In my opinion, that was incredibly cumbersome for my workflow and I absolutely have not utilized those import/edit/export tabs on purpose - but thats because the developers let me keep my workflow for the most part. I just want to end this post by quoting fredrik again.... I hope the developers who actually have a say in feature implementation see these threads

"professional editing for me also means being less busy with the editing software itself and spending my time efficiently on creating projects" 

I stated a request for workspaces with combined bin- and timeline view presets. 

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-ideas/question-for-combined-workspace-timeline-view-bin-view-preset-setup-for-gui-efficiency/idi-p/14748915

@Emerrow like you wrote every now and then I come here to the same threads and look for answers if the latest updates also brought more costumization options. But for most times I have to learn around new features.

I also like new features, but I miss an approach in preferences where I could decide how I integrate new features into existing workflows. Maybe I am wrong here, but professional editing for me also means being less busy with the editing software itself and spending my time efficiently on creating projects.