No way to stop Home or Recent Project on launch?

[ShawnTierney]

I'm fairly new to Premiere Pro, and I'm hoping the developers are not so bad that I have to choose either the Home screen or opening the Most Recent project every day when I open Premiere Pro?!?

Please tell me this isn't true - I though we left horrible designs like this back in the 80's?

Really, why would they not include the option, "just open the dang software so I choose what I want to work on and get some work done" which is the default mode for EVERY other software package I use?!?

😞

[Michael Grenadier]

just double-click on the project you want to load before launching premiere and away you go.  

[ShawnTierney]

That's not a bad suggestion really, it's just in every other software program (including Photoshop and Premiere Elements) I do it the other way because the program filter out files that are not native...

[ingrida11392181]

That only works if you were ABLE TO START A NEW PROJECT before you closed the program last time you used it. I want it to open straight to my editing page workstation not the home page, so I can begin a new project and start importing.

[MarekMularczyk]

These are the only options available I'm afraid. However, if you don't want to see any of these, just start by opening your Premiere project from Explorer/Finder and it will load straight into the project itself skipping welcome screen

[ShawnTierney]

Thanks for the tip - I may try that - I really just want the program to launch and let me choose file - open recent

[MarekMularczyk]

Yes, I usually just open the project straight from Explorer and it launches Premiere with the project open.

[Energetic_LullabyB82A]

Why do you guys make everything worse? What was wrong in the old versions when you just open Premiere and double click on media box to import footages and the software picks upautomatically the frame rate and other settings from the footage? Why do I have now to navigate through all my folders and finally to find the footage? Considering Adobe is lagging while it is navigating as it scans all the files on it's way? 

[MyerPj]

Just skip that part. Put the name of the project and the location if need be, then create it. Then you'll be in the PP interface and dbl-click as you wish.

[Energetic_LullabyB82A]

That is what I am talking about! Don't I do this when I was saving the project? why duplicating this actions? It might be that Adobe just blindly copy what other software do instead of thinking about people who for decades formed a culture and habbit how to deal with projects. Don't give a damn right? Why should you? 

[MyerPj]

PP has as long as I can remember always needed a project open to use the software. IE: After Effects you can startup and just start working, which I prefer, especially when I am just testing things for users here. But that's the way it is with PP. So, as 'always' you have to have a named project file open to work in PP, even if it is 'Untitled'

[R Neil Haugen]

I've been using Premiere since CS6. Through all the CC versions.

I've always had to set a project name/location before being able to do anything.

As Premiere would have to start saving all the information someplace on the computer, i don't understand your concept. As if it started just splaying the data someplace, and you saved to another place, it would have to copy everything there, right?

Sounds like a recipe for loose crud all over a drive.

[MarekMularczyk]

You know, nowadays  you can open Premiere or make a new project, and then import footage at the same time when you make a new project. You can also just drag-and-drop media into the Project panel.

[Energetic_LullabyB82A]

Typical answer is not answering straight away to the question and instead deflecting it showing what I can do instead. I don't want to do anything instead, I don't want to change my habbits every time when you guys are trying to show some activity instead of working on the product improvements. Why did you cancel authomatically assigning the footage original frame rate option in After effects? I am working daily with different footages at different fr, don't you think that I am wasting my time checking the original frame rate of each individual footage? You just don't care do you? Now I need to check every footage and then correct it manually because... you grayed out the option in interpret Footage tab, because... you don't care 

[R Neil Haugen]

I know you're upset, but really ... I'm trying to figure out exactly what about.

You can get the list of recent projects to select one. As probably most users do.

You can as noted, open a project from Finder or Explorer to launch Premiere with that project.

There are several options for going about the process of creating new projects. Including a pretty simple thing to type a name, set a location, and then launch it, adding media from opened project.

It's simple and quick enough for me ... so what is the specific hassle you are having?

[Phillip Harvey]

While I don't necessarily disagree that it doesn't hurt to have the option. Unless I'm missing something, it seems like a fairly small hill to die on, so to speak.

V1 - Home screen: Click Premiere, Click on recent project or New Project (2 clicks)

V2 - No Home screen: Click Premiere, Click File, Move to Recent Files, Click Project. (3 clicks - same if starting a new project.)

V3 - Direct via Folder: Click Finder/Explorer, Click Project Folder (will assume it's favorited), Double click Project (3+ clicks)

Opening DaVinci Resolve I get the same type of home screen. I didn't see a way to turn that off either, but I don't know that software nearly as well.

[ShawnTierney]

I dont' disagree that this is not a big deal for you, and probably many others.

And you know what, if I was just creating a home video for the family once every few weeks then it wouldn't be a big issue.

But that's not me.

I'm using Premiere for work, and the more work I get done the more I get paid.

So this isn't a "hill to die on," this is about effiecientcy, common sense, and exercising my Right as a paying customer to provide feedback about a bad feature that's slowing me down.

At least with Premeire Elements and Photoeshop Elements there "IS" a way to get rid of the help screen.

Sadly not so in Premiere Pro currently.

Dear Adobe - please add a third option to choose neither pop-up, and help us get more work done.

Shawn Tierney

[ShawnTierney]

And now it seems I can't edit my reply to fix the typo's 😞

[Kevin-Monahan]

Click the "More" button, Shawn. You can edit your reply.

Thanks,
Kevin

[Michael Grenadier]

On the mac, I've got all my premiere projects in a folder that's mirrored in the dock, Just click on the folder in the dock and choose the project which launches premiere and the project.  I'm sure there's something similar in windows.   Can't imagine how it could be faster than that

[Michael Grenadier]

and you can have it sorted so the most recently opened project is at the top of the list...

[MyerPj]

Wow! For a new user... so negative and inflexible. I quite like the 'small hill to die on' comment.

BTW: you can simply press ESCape on the home screen and it's gone, all the while you can be heading for the FILE menu.

Also simply, you can keep desktop shortcuts for any project. It will be available and right where you put it each time.

[Kevin-Monahan · Accepted solution]

Hey Shawn,

Sorry for the frustration. You wrote:

"Dear Adobe - please add a third option to choose neither pop-up, and help us get more work done."

Please create a feature request here.

Thanks,
Kevin

[clif_CROP]

I'll add to the feature request link to add for a third option to not show anything. As stated before, other Adobe apps allow it to be turned off. In a studio environment with multiple editors on a server, "most recent" is a pretty useless to me. I use Premiere in full screen (which has its own bugs), so having the Home screen show up on another desktop is annoying. I wasn't aware of the Esc button to clear the home screeen away. For now I think I'll program a hot key on my StreamDeck to close the project and Esc as a single button. Its nice when you close out of something that you can be back to a clean desktop and not still having an app layer between you and the Finder in the case of OSX. 

[Warren Heaton]

It would be nice if there was something that matches After Effects' Preferences > Startup & Repair > Enable Home Screen or Photoshop's Preferences > General > Auto show the Home Screen.

If put in the form of a feature request (rather than an angry rant), I'd vote for it.