We’re proud to announce a new look for Premiere Pro! In Beta — available today — Premiere Pro is themed and styled using Adobe’s Spectrum design with a new modern look across the entire app.
Premiere Pro now includes three different themes: Darkest, Dark and Light.
There’s also a new toggle for switching between a high-contrast mode for easier visibility and accessibility or a low-contrast mode for focusing on your content.
With this design system in place, you’ll see more visual continuity across Adobe applications, better legibility, and easier UI interactions. The Spectrum design system unifies Adobe’s app design behind principles that make it inclusive, scalable, and focused.
Questions to our beta community:
- Is there one theme you prefer over the others?
- Do you switch between themes?
- Is there anything you miss from the previous interface design?
- Is the new design confusing or distracting? If so, in what way?
We want to know what you think. Please join the conversation below.
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@Amau29644661g3tu With the new Label Color Presets feature, you can switch label color sets on the fly to accommodate different workflows at different times. Try switching to the Classic preset. Does this get you back to the color scheme you prefer?
(I really have no idea why anyone would use the light version).
I also prefer dark UI not only in Premiere (I personally use the Darkest theme) but also in most of the apps I use.
But to my surprise I found myself being glad to have the new Light theme when using a projector in a room with a lot of natural light, which I had trouble with in the past even with the lightest gray you could reach with the old brightness sliders.
And thanks for the feedback about the audio clip header and waveform customization!
The team is actively looking into these things, and will send your comments to the relevant team members 🙂
I see in the latest v24.6 beta (24.6.0.001) audio waveforms no longer render on the smallest track size. If this isn't a bug can we at least get an option to turn this back on?? As someone constantly using 5+ lav tracks, condensing audio tracks is an essential part of my workflow and just losing those waveforms is crazy.
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Just to add to what Foswald mentioned, the new preference also includes what we called in Audition waveform layering for small track heights. In previous versions of Premiere Pro, when the track height was less than 24 pixels, we would scale down the audio visualization waveforms of a clip containing more than two channels, resulting in a loss of definition and clarity (waveform drawings in this case were rendered with a height of less than 8 pixels). The new version of Premiere Pro adds the audio layering feature to represent multichannel audio as a single audio waveform visualization. I want to clarify that the audio is NOT being mixed down or converted to mono.
In this mode you can now work with multichannel audio at all track heights as well having bigger resolution for editing as it will take the entire 16 pixels of the smallest track height.
Overall, the UI design finally looks consistent. I like the new color scheme and appreciate the option to customize UI and label colors even more. However, I believe there's room for improvement in the Timeline, which is where I spend most of my time. Please note that I'm not a designer at all, so I'll try my best to explain myself.
- The removal of the colored FX badges results in a lack of information at a glance.
There's another well-supported discussion here that elaborates on this issue. - The way waveforms are highlighted seems inconsistent and creates an unpleasant contrast.
Looking at the audio tracks, it appears the new design prioritizes labeling the rectangle itself over the waveform, creating a need to choose between highlighting or shadowing the waveforms, and all of that happens on clips sometimes side by side. New design:
To me - and I think for most of us - the waveforms are an important visual representation when editing, and for that reason, I like them to be prominent. In the old design (when waveforms are visible), I prefer how it mutes the background color to make the waveform color the same as the labels. Old design:
Applying the previous design principle to the new "Vibrant" color scheme for instance could look like this:
Or highlighted if it has to be (not my favorite) :
Plus, I think the brightness tolerance for white text to switch to black could be higher. - The Production Panel looks different from the others.
It feels like we were in a transition between old and new UI with the introduction of the Text panel. Now that everything looks consistent, I just noticed the Production Panel has a darker area, which seems unnecessary since the Project panel and all the others don't have it.
Hope it helps and users can relate!
Cheers!
Is the Audio Track Mixer ever going to get any love? I imagine that hideous dark grey to light grey gradient isn't part of the new Spectrum guidelines 😉
Everything about the top Effects & Sends section feels like the UI hasn't been touched in decades. So many awful gradients
The whole mixer also scales down very poorly and has a very large max height (with Effects, and inevitably Sends open). The first thing that gets shrunk vertically when resizing is the faders, which isn't great.
- I use audio effects all the time, but I don't really need to see 5 slots at all times if I'm only using two effects
- I have almost never used even one of the 5 sends that are permanently open. Let me twirl close just the sends themselves?
- Shrink down the panning knobs before starting to shrink the volume sliders? They're pretty large
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