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JaySprout
JaySprout
Inspiring
November 13, 2017
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Can I freeze Project panel toolbar?

  • November 13, 2017
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In the history of Adobe, no panel has ever made me "feel" anything but Premiere's Project panel makes me angry several times a day.

  • How do I make the stupid thing stay "expanded"? When all my little bins are closed, the entire panel gets smaller. Sometimes, I like to drag things out of a bin -- like I can do with layers in Photoshop or Illustrator -- but I can't. I try dropping whatever it is between bins but that never works -- it just drops into whatever bin Premiere chooses. I don't hate that anywhere near as much as I hate this next thing ...
  • How can I make the bottom toolbar always visible? Whenever my little bins are open/expanded, the bottom toolbar disappears and I have to scroll down to click anything. This means, of course, I have to scroll back up to see the bins/items I was working with.
  • While I'm complaining, who decided that after I click enter when naming a bin or changing the name of anything, the next item's name is "opened" and selected? Again, I have to stop whatever I'm doing and deselect it before moving on. For example, I create a bin, name it, and press Return -- I can't click "New Bin" again or press Cmd-B because that will create a new bin inside the bin I just created -- what does that mean? Why, I have to freaking scroll down to see the toolbar so I can click delete and delete this bin-in-a-bin that I didn't want and then scroll back up to see what I'm doing. I can't drag that misplaced bin out of the first bin -- why? because there's no room because see bullet #1.

I've been using Adobe products for 17 years and until I started using Premiere (PCs at work so no Final Cut for me there), I would never have described any part of any of their products as clunky but Premiere is just chock full o' clunkiness.

Please tell me there's a setting I can change or something I just don't know about this panel so I can work with joy. Isn't that what Adobe is supposed to be for? Working with fun and joy?

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    Correct answer excited_Genie16B8

    That's...not normal.  I don't know of any way to make that bottom area resize like that.  I can only think you've got a corrupt installation.  Maybe try Step 2f below.  If that doesn't work, try 3a and b.  Still no joy, try 3e.  If that doesn't work, might be time for 3i.

    Unofficial Premiere Pro Troubleshooting Guide

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    Meg The Dog
    Inspiring
    November 13, 2017

    jays55219621  wrote

    • When all my little bins are closed, the entire panel gets smaller.

    I'm not sure what this means. Can you post screenshots of what you are experiencing?

    jays55219621  wrote

    • Whenever my little bins are open/expanded, the bottom toolbar disappears and I have to scroll down to click anything.

    Again, screenshots would help. Is the bottom toolbar you are referring to this?

    There is nothing I can do in the Project Panel that masks or displaces those tools.

    jays55219621  wrote

    • While I'm complaining, who decided that after I click enter when naming a bin or changing the name of anything, the next item's name is "opened" and selected?

    When you select something and rename it, if you want to enter the name and not move to the next clip, don't hit the Return key - instead, type the Enter key on the numeric keypad and you will stay on the same asset.

    MtD

    JaySprout
    JaySproutAuthor
    Inspiring
    November 15, 2017

    Thanks for the number-pad tip! These screenshots show what I'm talking about. Note the snugness in the first with all bins collapsed and how the toolbar disappears in the third.

    I grabbed the area around it to show the panel in context so you can see how the size changes and the toolbar moves around (and disappears).

    Something really weird that also happens is, if I have several bins expanded and I scroll down, the upper part of the panel -- the part that's scrolling -- appears to rise out of the panel above and behind the top of the panel! I'll try to get a screenshot of that.

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    excited_Genie16B8Correct answer
    Legend
    November 15, 2017

    That's...not normal.  I don't know of any way to make that bottom area resize like that.  I can only think you've got a corrupt installation.  Maybe try Step 2f below.  If that doesn't work, try 3a and b.  Still no joy, try 3e.  If that doesn't work, might be time for 3i.

    Unofficial Premiere Pro Troubleshooting Guide

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      excited_Genie16B8
      Legend
      November 13, 2017

      Your first point confuses me.  None of the panels change size on their own.  Deliberate user action is required for that to occur.  I can say that you can't drop items "between" bins.  You either drop them in a bin or out of a bin.  Doing the latter requires dropping in an empty area of the Project panel.

      I find your second issue confusing as well.  The bottom scroll bar scrolls horizontally, not "down", and only goes away if there's nothing outside the horizontal dimension of the Project panel.  In other words, if the visible columns fit, no scroll bar.

      You're not the first to complain about the third issue, continued renaming.  It is very helpful when you have to rename a lot of items, though.  Take this feature away, and I'm sure there'd be a bevy of posts on how cumbersome renaming a batch of clips has suddenly become.  (You can't please everyone.)

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