Discuss the Premiere Pro 22.3 UI changes: Import, Export, and Header Bar

[MikeDy]

I'm struggling too, this UI update seems a step backwards requiring more clicks etc to do the same tasks... I also can't find options to do layouts that worked very well for certain tasks. Whats happened to the caption layout for instance?

If I wanted a Premiere rush like inetrface i'd use rush... This is professional workstation software why are you dumbing it down... Shades of Final cut 10...

[WizWorldLIVE]

The easiest solution is to simply roll back to the previous version. You can do this from the Creative Cloud app. I did, & it was a big relief!

Hopefully they wise up & add an option to use the previous, more efficient interface. They did it in PhotoShop after a disastrous & sudden workflow change...not sure why they didn't learn a lesson from that.

& before I get lectured about how the Beta forums exist—yes, they do. But no, it's not good dev practice to reply "Well we had it in the Beta forum" when people don't like having their workflows overhauled. "You should have found out whether we were gonna screw with you in this version" is not a sane ask.

[R Neil Haugen]

The simplest solution is to do what you've always done ... give the project a name, location, and create.

Then import from the Project panel or Media Browser, as you've always done.

The ONLY thing changed is the options on the startup. In years of user-study, like 1% actually set the cache file and preview locations.That dialog wasn't useful to hardly anyone. As once you set your preferences, they were sticky.

So they added a different set of options ... but as before, ignore them if you want.

That interface takes not one more click to use if you want to use the old import process. As I do. Not one click more.

Neil

[WizWorldLIVE]

I don't know of anyone who hates the new project start but LOVES the new export. The new export stinks.

Easiest fix is rolling back, not adapting to changes that are a pain. 

[WizWorldLIVE]

Sorry, hit post too soon.

What I meant to say was, 

I don't know of anyone who hates the new project start but LOVES the new export. The new export stinks.

Easiest fix is rolling back, not adapting to changes that are a pain. Adapting to the project start is easier, but the export, not so much. It's not worth the time & annoyance, when rolling back takes two clicks—and then it's fixed, until Adobe releases the inevitable update where they change the UI again or provide a legacy option.

[R Neil Haugen]

Fascinating the differences.

I tested the new start, figured out how it works best ... and why for some people that would be useful. But I'll almost never use it myself. I'm still name/location/create, then import via Project panel or MediaBrowser.

Averdahl's suggestion to move the Create button up next to Location in all that empty space is a good one though.

The export page ... after I unstarred everything, and then created the few exports I really use most, in all details, I found that works quite well for me. I don't conflate it works well for me to everyone wants it this way.

And I just do media files, won't be using all the left-side options.

But I can understand others view it differently. We're all different.

Neil

[Ruan-IGrow]

I am also really annoyed about prem pro... please put the export window the way it was 

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[R Neil Haugen]

The discussions on features/performance that you want to get to the developers happen mostly on the public beta forum, they have the 'featured' discussions on these things that are viewed by up to the program manager. You will even see staffers posting replies at times over there.

And you can easily have the old export page ... just use the queue to MediaEncoder option, and in Me the export system is still the old one.

Neil

[Zoe7traveller]

it's still the old interface..................for now. 😞

[joeym4130]

The new export window is an abonimation of user interface design. My whole team this morning was projectile vomiting at how much longer everything takes.

"Oh we have something that isn't broken? Let's fix it!"

[R Neil Haugen]

Then DON'T use it to import!

It's so simple not to. The first time you use it, make sure none of the right-side import options are blue ... copying media, make bins, and create sequences. Should all be 'charcoal', the background color. Once you've set those off, they stay off.

From now on, simply give your new project a Name and Location on this page ... as you've always done.

Click Create ...

Now use whatever import methods you've always used. Either the Project panel or the MediaBrowser.

Takes no more time nor steps than ever.

Neil

[joeym4130]

I said the export window in my post. Not import.

the new export window is disgusting and a mess

[Zoe7traveller]

While it is true the import windows now suck, it's the export windows that are really, really terrible. I agree.

[joeym4130]

Plus if people are going around telling others how to get around using the new UI additions - that's about as big a signal as a UI/UX designer can get that they have failed miserably.

[Jeff Bellune]

It requires extra thought for me as well. Old habits die hard......

[R Neil Haugen]

It might also be that what someone likes, another ... doesn't. In the aisle-way discussions at NAB I've always been fascinated by how differently we all work.

I've even got friends that LOVE LOVE LOVE the UI of Resolve, which to me is a total mess. Go figure ...

So what you or I may thoroughly and intensely loathe will be someone else's joy. And there are a lot of people that really like the new import/export process. Vastly prefer it.

Not you nor me, but a lot of users, that I'll grant. There are ways to work more as we are used to that don't add a second to the process. And for the Export page, when you've set the presets that show to only the ones you use, then ... for some exports, that will be entirely sufficient and fast.

For others, there's the old way.

Neil

[Zoe7traveller]

Agreed....it's awful. The old interface was fast and simple.  This one is all click, click, search for moved feature, click, click, click.................and then export error. Grrrr.

[R Neil Haugen]

If you're going to use their new Export page, you really need to take some time to setup your presets ... including all the things you need in the tabs down below. Unstar everything else. It will probably take you a good half hour or so to set up only what you want.

Then it actually works pretty quick for your normal stuff. And there are fewer changes to make anyway.

Or just queue to MediaEncoder and use the old one. Which I was doing at first, but then I fnially sat down and dumped all the pre-selected presets, starred the ones I've created, and modded several of them for more details or slightly different use.

So it's grab the preset, set the name, and out.

It's still a ROYAL PAIN that you don't see the other file names when you set a name. And I'll be arguing this with the engineers in person in two days here in Vegas. Among other things.

Neil

[Andy 1968]

When people leave Premiere Pro for Resolve or FCPX the thing they always miss most about Premiere Pro is the GUI. Adobe tried to fix something that was not broke. I hope Adobe goes back to the old GUI. The old GUI was awesome.

[okiewardoyo]

Most people love to try new ease thing. But most people also hate to learn new easer thing too.

I'm SURE Adobe developer alwasy develop their software to be more intuitive and powerfull. But unfortunately when they improve a thing, it also can break another thing.

[RickRock501]

I'm throwing my hat in the ring on this issue!  ADOBE, YOU COMPLETELY SCREWED UP AND TURNED WHAT WAS AN INTELLIGENT EXPORT TO MEDIA ENCODER QUEUE DIALOGUE INTO AN UTTER DISORGANIZED AND UNWORKABLE DISASTER!!!  I cannot say that more emphatically withoug using a few four letter words!  I'm in total agreement with an earlier commenter who mentioned the [modern] age-old agage...IF IT AIN'T BROKE...WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO FIX IT? 

I work in broadcast TV and my job entails exporting tagged promos from stringouts in sequence timelines...anywhere from to 2 to 20 spots in each sequence.  A couple years ago we switched from exporting the whole timeline as one continuous clip to exporting individual tagged spots from the timeline.  Enter Media Encoder's Export to Queue function.   It was perfect, and I was able to export numerous promos easily and efficiently.  Now, it's a complete mess!  The feeling I'm getting from your stupid and uncalled for change to this process is...now you have people working for you who have no clue how those of us in broadcast work.  And, they have no clue of how we depended everyday on the efficiency of the old export dialogue.  Everyday we to have push this stuff out fast, and now your rediculous tinkering and reorganizing of a process that was perfect has simply ruined it.  And let me tell you there are many things wrong with the new dialogue...many things that combined make the process rediculously slow.  I will be cancelling my personal subscription to Adobe products.  I am not giving Abobe any more of my hard earned cash.  You guys are charging millions of people all this money monthly...laughing all the way to the bank!  Obviously, you don't give a damn about those who depend you your products everyday.  With this change, I hope the industry wakes up and finds new alternatives to your products!

[Jeff Bellune]

Do you have any suggestions for software that will do a better job for your workflow than Pr?

It seems to me that transitioning an entire shop to new software is a huge undertaking that will involve more lost productivity hours than adapting to the new export UI in Pr.

[okiewardoyo]

@Jeff Belluneis totally true. Pr is really amazing for me, really flexible workflow. It's the easiest software to learn in the planet. It makes us so easy to edit thing.

[R Neil Haugen]

Um ... queue to MediaEncoder is still there. Down in the lower right, one of the two export options. Just as before, the option shown alongside the normal export that would be directly from Premiere.

You say that was your process ... and that is no differnt now. Why have you changed then? I'm not understanding something here.

Neil

[Phi.Def]

Queuing to Media Encoider (as you repeatedly suggest people do in order to avoid using the crappy new Premiere export interface) is far less convenient than exporting directly from Premiere as we used to be able to do. So despite the Media Encoder option, complaints are still very justified.