First thing ... post your comments & rants here ... the rest of us do! Simply keep clean language, it's polite to refrain from casting personal aspersions or motivations on people you don't know and etc.
Oh, and discussions the devs do follow closely on features & tools are all on the Public Beta forum. Go over there, read, and post! Please!
Second ... the blank export window when you click filename ... that was "an unfortunate oversight" and was never meant to happen, not designed or anything. And will go away with the next patch. Kinda an embarrasing topic for the supers at NAB last week.
Third ... the new Export setup can work ok, but only if you take the time to:
- Go through the Preset manager and unstar every preset you'll never or rarely use;
- Create detailed presets with all the settings you normally use, including multiple similar ones if you sometimes need to change the 'lower' settings.
If you don't do the above, granted ... it's a pain.
And fourth ... this sort of thing isn't always a "choice" by the program teams. I first looked at the changes and immediately thought about the striking similarity between the layouts and the related Resolve pages.
Understand: I work in Resolve daily. I teach how to work color in Premiere to colorists based in Resolve. But I do not "like" Resolve's UI, so seeing something similar here does not initially get a positive reaction. But I'm a practical guy, so past the emotions, can it be mad to work? Yea, sort of.
As to the "why?" ...
Adobe has really three main areas: the programs "we" use, like Premiere/Ae/Photoshop; the "documents" apps of the Acrobat ilk used by Big Business; and the metrics analyzation and implementation stuff designed for only use by other MegaCorps like Adobe.
This last set of study/programming/design workers is designed to assist MegaCorps to create and study metrics on user interactions with that company's products, socials, and web presence. All to "create a more engaged userbase relationship."
And that last group is essentially run through their M&E staffers ... marketing & experience. Who probably seriously outnumber the total product teams for like Photoshop, Premiere, Ae, whatnot. And are rather significantly more important as far as management decisions are made.
Adobe's personell charts/relationships are complex and confusing. Except for understanding that anything said or written by an M&E staffer is Important. No matter what their apparent 'status' within the company is.
Adobe's M&E people are constantly studying metrics on practices across software, user interactions, and without and within Adobe apps, user use of various tools and processes. Based on their data, they lay out the proposed road maps for the product apps.
The program managers for say, Premiere Pro, have "input" in the final discussions. They do not have any final say or override on any major decision. Never underestimate the presence and role of M&E.
And this change to the import/export 'pages' was clearly ... more from what was carefully not said in person than what was said ... a change instituted From Above. And at that point, not a request!
And note, there are changes "matching" this going through all the Adobe apps, it's a "branding" thing.
I've been interviewed in long one-on-one sessions with M&E people both at NAB and via zoom. A very ... unique ... experience. It's like being a little white rat in a maze with people with big glasses, white coats, and tablets recording data peering down at you and mumbling to themselves ... "... that's interesting... ".
And it's also clear that although the M&E types have massive data about how many users use X tool in any of these apps, they also have near zero knowledge of 1) what the app does or 2) what the user does with the tool, or at times more importantly, why the user uses that tool.
They're data specialists. Metrics is their entire world. And it feels like Star Trek's Commander Data is talking to you ... seriously.
Neil
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