For most software. I have vision problems, so I am able to enlarge fonts in most of my programs/apps or use my computer's accessibility option. It's disappointing that Premiere Pro doesn't have this option or allow my computer to "enlarge" it. This is the first that I have not been able to. I tried the premiere rush which was a bit easier to see but it's so limited. I had to use my old software Corel VideoStudio to complete my project. When this membership runs out, I will probably go back to other programs. For my usual daily projects where it's repetitive, I don't mind as I just go right to where I need to go in Premiere Pro. But not for my longer and more creative projects. I don't want to be squinting and trying to read all the options.
You have too high resolution vs size of your monitor. Once you start scaling, it's just like you paid for a more expensive monitor, and got less for it!
The User Interface font in Premiere is microscopic, and to my knowledge, Adobe hasn't done anything to make it easy to enlarge this. Other than Premiere allowing you to enlarge the overall font size in the Project window, you have to —I'm on a high-res monitor and that makes things even smaller. I've enlarged as much as I can from the monitor side of things, but at a certain point it starts to look funny.
Does anyone have a workaround for this? My eyes are not what they used to be, and this is so off-putting. I'm so frustrated with this long-term refusal of Adobe to make life easier on editors' eyes everywhere. Thanks in advance.
You need a new monitor, for my old / tired eyes I find a 32" 2560x1440 is as large/high res as I can go for the $$. If this 32" was a 4k screen I wouldn't be to see it well enough. A new monitor is in your future! 🙂
I agree with MyerPj, but even that has its limits. I just went back to monocular contacts (snorkeling with glasses is just not working!). As a quick way to do a bit of computer work without switching back to glasses, I'm epxerimenting with the "magnifier" (Windows 10).
Keyboard shortcuts make it easy to turn on/off, and you can define the magnification level.
I might play with defining a new workspace that reduces scrolling.
Am running Premier on a new 27 inch monitor.All fine except the text & tools are way to small. On older versions of PP there was a way of changin this in the Preferences menu.
The most pressing is to increase the size of the trool pallette & the weeny drop down menu for selecting other tools. I know you can use a hotkey to scroll between tools, but that's not the point...
You can change the font size of the Project panel, but that's about it and the way it has always been with the UI. I don't recall a way to make the tools larger other than changing screen resolution. Click on the Project Panel's panel menu (the one with 3 lines) to get to that option.
Thanks all for your input about monitors, greatly appreciated.
Adobe, if you would kindly make it easier on everyone and create a preference that fixes this, editors everywhere would thank you. I don't understand why this doesn't exist already, especially with the advent of 4k monitors. Next up we will likely have monitors that shrink the appearance of the UI even more. This issue will only get more cumbersome as higher-res codecs become the norm.
The bug reports and ideas forums are where the Adobe engineers look for bug reports, enhancement requests, etc. The urgency for bug reports or new features can be judged by how many of us users upvote the requests. You can search for similar requests using the search feature. It's best to upvote a request that has some traction (votes) already, and you can upvote and reply to that thread. If you don't find one the matches your request, then enter a new one.
Thanks for this link, I will have a look and upvote any threads I can find there about the UI font size. I have seen requests about this in the Adobe forums in the past though, and nothing has changed. Unsure if they were in the same forum you linked to, as it's been a while since I was in here.
I apologize this is frustrating for you. The team knows about this request. Unfortunately, the team needs to prioritize new feature requests based on data, and it can take some time to get to even the popular ones. I will mention it to them, though. I'll have to ask for your patience in the meantime.
Gotta chime in and say how absurd it is that Adobe makes this easy in Photoshop but so difficult in Premiere! I have a bad back and working on videos utterly destroys it because I have to lean into the screen so much. Like AGONY. Adobe, why do you want me to hurt like this?
you need to tell us what kind of computer your using. Somewhat different for mac and windows, but just do some googling to change the display preferences (not in premiere but from the windows or mac system preferences).
but changing the "scaling" or pixel dimensions can cause problems... so make sure you understand how to reset this back to it's original settings... On the mac, it's simple to set it up so you can "zoom" the display in the "accessibility" settings using the scroll wheel of your mouse if something's difficult to read. I imagine this is possible on windows... Post back if any of this is not clear...
If you need things enlarged in general, than your monitor has too many pixels crammed into the space (monitor size) it has available. Better to buy a smaller resolution monitor of the same physical size you have. As MG notes, problems arise when you start scaling the OS.
This is an issue I've seen across the board for Adobe software. On a 24" screen (1920x1080) the UI font is tiny. On apps that do have scaling options the large size is either insignificantly larger or jumps scale. A slider or number entry field would be ideal, maybe with a font size preview box below as example of how text will appear. Give users total control by having the option from default (tiny) to HUGE. I have new glasses and still struggle to see it.
if you're on a mac, you can set up the accessibility control panel in system preferences so you can zoom in using the scroll wheel on your mouse... I've got mine set to use the control key. Allows you to zoom into the position of your cursor... I'm sure there's a way to do this in windows... or there should be.
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