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May 16, 2025
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Make rounded corners in the timeline an option

  • May 16, 2025
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Description: Make an option for square headed timelines

Why is this valuable to you? Visual preferences should be allowed

 

This has been brought up before, but updating to PP25 for a clients project I was faced with the new rounded corners and immediately hated it.

 

Why would a visual change thats (by all accounts of the many complaints) a very personal preference not have an option change? 

 

Can the adobe staff talking about how 'fun' and 'playful' the roundness is, It's not a bouncy castle it's a timeline and between this and shoving AI down our throats it's feeling like less and less consideration is put into the people who actually use these products. I'm running out of reasons not to jump ship

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Ann Bens
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 16, 2025

Try out the beta (25.4) they are hardly round.

R Neil Haugen
Legend
May 16, 2025

I'm with you on the rounded corners, which are thankfully less rounded in the public beta. For much editing, the square corners are vastly better if you work precisely and at speed. And yes, I have supported every request to give the option for square corners, including in person at NAB.

 

In general, I just ask people to understand, we are all different in how we work. Quite literally, no one does anything exactly like you, nor you, like them. It's fascinating to me how utterly differently we all get things done.

 

For a ton of users, it "looks prettier" with the rounded corners, and they don't work their trims and cuts to nearly the same precision and speed that you are used to working at. So for a lot of other users, certainly not thee & me, this if fine to really cool.

 

Now as to the AI stuff, the people I learn from and work with and advise are all heavy pro workflow types. And most of them are thrilled with most of the machine learning things. Like the new incredible search capabilities, generative extend to 'save' a cut, remix, on and on.

 

As with any other tool or effect, once you learn how it works and what the limitations are, the things you can then do are pretty darn useful. I was just through an FMC class yesterday showing some uses of the "AI" things I hadn't heard of or thought of, and yes, I'll be doing more with it today and forward.

 

We are all different, everyone's mileage always varies, and we users need to be supportive even of users that work differently.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...