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

[sarapia777]

Why can't I just create a new project, choose a location, and then import media, like always? So simple! I have NOOOOO clue as to how to create a new project. I end up with a jumble of files I don't want in my project. I have NO IDEA how to select media. I don't want to create a sequence. I want to create my sequence as I go along. 

[josiahthiesen]

I've not created a new Premiere Project in years... and I just wasted way too much time trying to find out how to do that due to this "new" create project dialog box (apparently its 2 years old). WHY THE HELL IS IT SOOOOOO DAMN COMPLICATED? I've been using Resolve for the last few years and didn't realize how absolutely stupid Adobe had gotten with their dialog boxes when you open their software. Oh, and considering this thread is over 2 years old, and they've changed nothing, its apparent they don't listen to their customers.

[R Neil Haugen]

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.

[sarapia777]

Umm..that was two years ago., long since understood with many many videos under my belt later. Why the shaming and condescending attitude? 

Does this make you feel better as a person? 

[R Neil Haugen]

You got "mugged" by this forum platform, sorry if you thought "you" were involved.

That reply wasn't to you, it was to a different user, who'd posted this morning. And if you read their post, well ...  😉

[JasonDD210]

It it were "simple", there wouldn't be an issue. That's the whole point of good UX design. You should not have to think. I mean, I could take the door handles in your home, remove them, and put them on backwards. Then you'd have to lift them to open the doors, instead of pushing them down. Simple, right? Or may be we could move the light switches around in your home, while you're at work. Just for the hell of it. I mean, it wouldn't take you long to find them would it? It's...simple, they' re just here, instead of there. I guess it bothers some of us.

[R Neil Haugen]

I didn't find it at all hard, even at first. I assumed what I'd done before probably still worked. So I simply typed a project name, selected a location, looked at the middle and upper right, and decided to "unstar" anything in the middle, and click to gray out anything upper right.

Then hit "tab" to get to Create, which didn't work. Said a nasty word, grabbed the mouse and clicked the blasted blue bubble.

Voila! My new project opened up like always. Took me at least a minute, first time.

And wow ... you must hate Resolve! That app has tabs of project settings, user settings, and holy moly, look at the TONs of options for input space, timeline space, do you want the timeline to be same as output, output space, monitor space .... and all of those settings can interact with others causing all sorts of issues.

I work in Resolve as I work for/with/teach pro colorists. I know the app pretty decently for general editing/color work, but am certainly no expert "over there". Even though I do know more than some, it's not as much as others. And I'm most often around others who know a lot more about Resolve than me.

[R Neil Haugen]

As a regular Resolve user I'm also a regular on the BM and LGG forums.

There were a fair number of heavy Resolve users who stayed on 15 for stability reasons, or 16, then skipped 17 which they found problematic, going directly to 18.

And went all what the HADES have they done to the app? Due to the many changes that had occurred.

Yea, don't use either Resolve or Premiere's new versions for a couple years, and you will get surprises. Might not like all of them, but some you might.

But assume you're going to need to learn the new stuff. Which both will have, guaranteed.

[steve262379783yse]

It's one of the worst ux/ue speedbumps I've seen. Absolutely dunder-headed design by the premiere team. It always makes me cringe.

[R Neil Haugen]

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.