Create New Project in Most Recent PP Update??????

Please give the problems you see, or your post is sadly wasted. Without specifics, no way of knowing what bothers you.

It's different for sure ... and as a replacement for the old new project dialog, where most people paid no attention to the many options, this one has intriguingly had a lot of objections to the options replacing the options they never paid attention to.

So ... what bums your load? We all have preferences, please add them to the discussion.

While it's weird to look at, at first, It did bring back some ingesting capabilities we haven't had really since they dumped Prelude. And it's a great way to add complex/spanned media to a current project. So it does have capabilities not existing elsewhere in Pr or harder/slower to get to.

I know most peole don't realize that ... I didn't either.

It isn't complicated. It's simple.

Type Name.

Select Location.

Click Create.

Done, as before.

AND ...as before, there are other options. Did you ever pay any attention to all the other options of the old New Project Dialog? I doubt it. But ... there were several very complex options in that dialog also.

But you already knew how the old one worked, so ... you didn't think about them.

The new one takes a minute or two to puzzle out the first time. As the old one did. Big ... whoop.

You wanna talk complicated? Let's talk ... Resolve. Take a look at the new project items you've got there! Vastly more complex than Premiere. And yes, as I work for/with/teach pro colorists, have for years, I spend a LOT of time in Resolve.

The new "import" page is different, but heavily used by many professional editors ... so MILLIONS of users do not find it a problem, but a tool. I've not been one using any of the features personally.

But even I have learned two darn useful functions for that Import page.

• The ability to do some copy/transode on import similar to a few functions that were part of Prelude.
• The quick and accurate addition of spanned media clips into current projects without needing to use the MediaBrowser panel.

And yes, whaddaya know ... it does have some spiffy features. Huh. But then, I already had learned that many corporate in-house video production teams, TV newsrooms and such, love love love the Import page.

The new procedure for creating a project involves an unnecessary number of steps, a hidden tick box, greyed-out options, and a menu that, while it may appear aesthetically pleasing, is incredibly frustrating and time-consuming for users.

As so often noted, do NOT use this for most workflows. We aren't and weren't expected to.

Type a Name ... select a Location for the project file ... click Create ... just as you did before.

And ignore the other options just as you did before in the old new project dialog.

And just like before, your new blank project opens up, and add assets via the Project panel or MediaBrowser as you always have.

This was a replacement of the group of rarely used options of the old dialog, with a process that is actually very slick for certain users. And again, designed to be used only by those users, not the rest of us.

For say TV newsrooms & such, this has been a godsend. Speeds the process every one of their short little projects they make by the bunch each day.

And doesn't affect the rest of us in any way I can see. Same process ... just different options to skip.

Neil

The devs thought it was a simple replacement of options no one used with a workflow that is actually quite spiffy for some ... such as newsroom work.

They actually expected the rest of us to realize we could skip it, and simply do the Name, Location, Create ... then build our projects in the ways we always have. Which ... well, yea, it wasn't as obvious as they thought ...

Neil

Thank you. Now I know. So confusing. As if life isn't hard enough. 🤪