Don't open multiple projects at once: Premiere 2018

Thank you Adobe for implementing this feature. It is borderline essential for carrying over a FCP7 workflow into PPro, especially with larger projects and will be a HUGE help.

I know some people like it, others don't, some people say it's not that hard to close the projects. It's easy to say that, but I work at a college with student workers and they constantly open up multiple projects and import things into the wrong projects and get really confused because of this 'feature'. I have no problem with myself learning to close the project before hand, but even after instructing my students on the new feature a lot of them still don't quite get it. So please make it a feature I can enable or disable. Or make a dedicated 'open concurrent project' option in the file window. Better yet, when I open a project while another project is open simply ask, "would you like to close the current project you are working on or keep it open?"

Again I really like the feature for the stuff I'm typically doing, but from a new user/learning the program standpoint, it could be implemented in a cleaner/clearer manner.

I've been struggling with this too...transitioning from Elements. It seems to me that the secret is understanding the SEQUENCE frame and it's relationship to the PROJECT frame. I was switching projects and not sequences. This led to whole chunks of work being overwritten.

I finally figured out how to create a new sequence for the active project and call that sequence something with the project name in the title so I could tell what project I was in. Adobe was using a default title for the sequence coming from the source file, not the project name...I was doing a lot of work with the same source file in different projects so this led to much confusion. Notice that the rendered file takes the name of the sequence NOT the name of the project.

My suggestion for a fix is to make it so that a new project automatically creates an initial sequence that takes the project title - not the title of the first source file you put into it. Might be a little more intuitive....and for the pro's its easy to change/create new sequences with custom titles.

This is such a pain, I've never had to visit the forum to report a bug so quickly after opening Premiere...

I opened a project to check something out, then wanted to start a new one.  However my new one had my old ones files / timeline etc.... So I thought something was really wrong.  Also, the "recent projects" wasn't working, it just kept opening the old one...

I can't see the project name at the top, as I use ctrl+\ to maximise my screen space.

After reading this forum, I found what happened...

I have a 4 screen set up, with 3 used for PP, left=project/browse/meta/info, middle = source/program/timeline, right= effects/effects controls/audio/history.

When doing new project, it created a project panel, on the very bottom of screen 3, just a few pixels showing.  This means opening a project gives me a completely new workspace.  I cannot see the name of the project at the top, I cannot restore the workspace, so the new feature is useless.

Also, instead of now doing file->recent->done, I now have to do file -> close, file -> recent.... two steps instead of one... so this update has messed up the feature it's intended to implement, and also the simple act of opening projects for everyone who didn't want it.

Great job Adobe, hate to think how your QC team operates...

The thing that I greatly dislike is not the feature, it's actually been very handy, it's HOW it was implemented.

Like depending on which windows set/window I'm in it may just open that one floating pane for the new project or just change the current panel . It's very hard to tell which project you're in.

I wish there was a mode to toggle between 1 multiple project taking over the whole interface with some kind of tab system somewhere logical  (project panel maybe?), and then a "whatever the heck you want to configure your windows as" way like their is now. I also built a dual project layout like one of the adobe tut's suggested, but when I'm in that layout and open a new project it opens 2(!!!) of the new project.

Great idea, rushed implementation imo.

It's a great feature to have for those who want to work this way, but it is confusing for those of us who are used to having project separation.  Would be great to have a preference to turn this off.

Submitting a feature request too.

It would be very helpful if the multiple project feature were implemented with tabs at the top for each project, similar to how multiple files in Photoshop, Illustrator and Animate display multiple files that have been opened at the same time.

This inconsistency seems to be the real problem, and the ability to disable it is just a temporary fix.

What would be great is a dialog that comes up, similar to what comes up when you try to exit w/ an un-saved project.

So if you try to open another project w/ one open already, it would ask "Do you want to open multiple projects?" with help text or link showing the pro's and con's, AND a checkbox to "Not ask me again."

This way the user learns about what's happening and can change the setting as they like. Then an additional setting in Preferences to enable/disable, and everyone would be happy, no matter what their workflow.

that annoys me as hell also, i can see where this is helpful but again, an option to disable multiple project opening stuff, would be fantastic. haven't had any issues yet with work spaces because i only use 1 and only my own projects, but that would be super frustrating. A simple toggle option for this would be great, and i guess someone already asked for that.

Can you PLEASE implement an option to turn this off. It is really annoying and implemented terribly. I have used Premiere for as long as I can remember and this is the single worst "improvement" I have ever encountered. Using multiple monitors turn into a mess with this. I used to simply be able to open new or recent projects and the other would close automatically. This is the functionality I prefer. So once again, PLEASE give me the option to turn this off.