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KaniDESIGN
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August 4, 2025
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Premiere Pro is the most frustrating tool to use. The panels constantly change or not easily found!

  • August 4, 2025
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HELP, PLEASE. I'm not claiming all these neurodivergent titles but the fact that the window changes every time I click to look for something is QUITE frustrating and makes it difficult to use the app. I've been an Adobe user since 2005, specializing in Illustrator, Design, Photoshop, and Lightroom and love that I can easily click a button and the window panels etc doesn't JUMP around. Can this NOT be a thing anymore, Adobe designers? I'm tired of watching youtube videos to make it stop, or to find something that should be simple. LIKE WTFLIPMODE! WHY IS THIS LIKE THIS! Can someone please make it stop. It's literally causing my blood to boil and all I'm trying to do is edit the captions but can't see the editing tools when I click properties. It shouldn't be this difficult to complete a simple task and I shouldn't have to keep resetting the workspace.

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Stan Jones
Community Expert
Stan JonesCommunity Expert
Community Expert
August 4, 2025

@KaniDESIGN,

 

Yes, what Neil said.

 

Are you using captions in a caption track (imported or from a transcription etc)? Or are these regular "graphics" text in a Video track?

 

Knowing that will simplify the explanations.

 

Also, what version of PR are you using?

 

Stan

 

R Neil Haugen
R Neil Haugen
Legend
August 4, 2025

I struggled to figure out what behavior you were talking about. And then from your last couple sentences, realized the problem.

 

The Properties panel is now totally "context aware" ... and by context, that means exactly what is currently selected as far as Premiere is concerned.

 

So if you're working on something, and happen to click elsewhere incidentally ... that is now what is "in focus" and controls and options for that will now appear in the Properties panel.

 

Which is actually the behavior that has been in some of the other apps you mentioned, and came from them to Premiere at the request of quite a few multi-app users, it seems.

 

And yea, this can be freakishly confusing for some of us. But the behavior is predictable once you get more of the hang of it. Some other users here can give quite good explanations for some parts of it.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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