'Properties' option missing

[HLJR]

When I right click a clip in the timeline the 'properties' option is missing. I tried it in the clips in the project panel, it's not there too. I attached screenshots of it. Maybe my eyes  are deceiving me. If you see it in the screenshots please tell me and apoligies for this post. Thank you.

[HLJR]

Also my premiere version is 24.5

[mattchristensen · Accepted solution]

@HLJR We've renamed the menu item "Properties" to now be "Media File Properties". You can see it in your screenshot of the Project panel context menu. I'm not sure why it's not there in the timeline, I'll ask around. Thanks!

[michael powell]

Renaming the properties seems like an unecessary change and it would be great if you all would stop making useless frustrating changes like this.  No one is asking for this stuff.  Change it back to properties and add the ability to check the properties from the timeline please.  You all are supposed to be making our lives easier, not more difficult.  Please focus on things that actually matter and benefit your community.  Thank you on behalf of EVERYONE using your program.  I'd hate to switch to Davinci but you all are making it look more appealing everytime you "update" (ruin) this program.

[MstrO]

yeah, why have you removed it from the timeline?!!?!

Please stop changing things for the sake of changing things. See also new label colours. uglier, harder to see and several of them are almost identical colouls. THEY WERE PERFECTLY FINE!

[dschweizer]

This bug "filed" june 8th and no update or fix. Introduced a problem, we have to come beg for a fix

[Stan Jones]

@dschweizer @MstrO,

See my post in the other main thread on this. There are updates there and in this current thread; the unintended removal of the menu and keyboard shortcut from the timeline has been fixed.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-beta-discussions/the-properties-of-the-video-on-the-time...

Stan

[Michael30621428f7dz]

Where is "Media File Properties"?

[Stan Jones]

@Michael30621428f7dz 

With a clip selected in the timeline or Project Panel, use Ctrl+Shft+H, which is the default shortcut for File -> Get Media file Properties For -> Selection. You must have a selection and that panel (timeline or project panel) must be in focus.

From your other posts, I believe you are working in a version of PR before 25. If is before 24.6.1, you will be missing this shortcut, but can use the menu selection.

Stan

[Kevin-Monahan]

Thanks for filing the bug and providing the info, @HLJR!

Cheers,
Kevin

[Stan Jones]

@HLJR,

I just installed 24.5, and could finally take a look at this.

This is a 2-step change: step one (in 24.5), is a change of "Properties" for media/sequence to "Media File Properties" and its removal from the timeline context menu. See this post in the Beta forum:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-beta-discussions/the-properties-of-the-video-on-the-time...

In a post in that thread, I speculated on a workaround:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-beta-discussions/the-properties-of-the-video-on-the-time...

Step 2, still only in the Beta and not in 24.5, is a new Properties panel. This panel will have a variety of uses, including becoming the panel for Essential Graphics (which will no longer appear under that name).

But the properties there are project/sequence properties, and not Media File Properties.

Stan

[Odobe]

Thank you @mattchristensen and @Kevin-Monahan for looking at this - for speed working through an edit its really important to be able to flash up a clip's properties using right click. At the moment the workaround is to open it in source monitor in order to see Media File Properties which although seems simple enough is extra steps and additional learning for our team of permanent and freelance editors. 

[Stan Jones]

@Odobe,

This post pulls together several comments in one place.

In the Beta thread I linked, @Mike-Berry said "This removal was intentional. The track item context menu is way too long, and the use of the Media File Properties is low. Having it in both menus was judged redundant, and making that menu short enough to display on a standard laptop is a goal."

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-beta-discussions/the-properties-of-the-video-on-the-time...

I.e., this is not a bug.

In another post, @lslater said the keyboard shortcut had been returned for a selection in the timeline (in the Beta version so far):

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-beta-discussions/the-properties-of-the-video-on-the-time...

I confirmed this in Beta 24.6.0.55: Ctrl+Shft+H (the default assignment for "Get Media File Properties for -> Selection) works from the timeline, and, as expected, from the Project Panel and Source Monitor. In the meantime, a workaround in 24.5.0 is assigning Ctrl+J as the keyboard shortcut for Reveal in Project. You can select the clip in the timeline, then Ctrl+J and Ctrl+Shft+H.

And in the new Properties panel (as I said, currently only in Beta), I'd like to see a "Media File Properties" button at the bottom with its new "Adjust Speed..." button.

BTW, here's the Beta introduction of the new Properties panel and a bunch of discussion:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-beta-discussions/now-in-beta-properties-panel-for-premie...

Stan

[lslater]

@Stan Jones Interesting idea to put a "Media File Properties" button in the Properties footer. Thanks for the feedback!

[Odobe]

Thank you all for the information.

I understand the need to remove some of the right click options - althought this might not have been one I'd have chosen to remove as a professional user. I look forward to seeing the keyboard shortcut return soon.

[7bling7]

I think the best option here is to give us the option to customize the right click panel in both the sequence and project panel. I desperately need the 'Properties' or 'Media File Properties' options ready in the sequence. This is a no brainer for professional use especially when we're mixing footage from different cameras and shooting in different FPS. It doesn't make sense to reveal in project then right click to check the properties.

[Manny22336866msdo]

I still can't find the damn thing.  how to find it?

[Stan Jones]

@Manny22336866msdo,

I'm not certain what it is you can't find.  See if this helps:

See my post in this thread on 7/14/24:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/properties-option-missing/m-p/14738512#M5141...

The "Properties Panel" is not yet in the release version; only in the Beta version.

But what opened as "Properties" for a clip is now "Media File Properties."

Stan

[Stan Jones]

> ... It doesn't make sense to reveal in project then right click to check the properties.

That's a workaround while they are bringing back the shortcut for the timeline selection. My suggestion is not to go to the project panel and right-click, but to use two keyboard shortcuts: one to go to the project panel and the second to open the Media File Properties directly.

And I think that when they bring the shortcut back in the timeline, it will not be in the right-click menu. It will be directly accessed via keyboard shortcut, or, I assume, the long form File -> Get Media file Properties For -> Selection (which is currently greyed out for a timeline selection).

If the timeline item is already selected as part of your workflow, the keyboard command is faster (than right-click + click). If it is not, then you must click (or do something to select) and then keyboard command.

Stan

[Tom Fewchuk]

The reason this idea is not that helpful is firstly you often don't have a clip already selected when going to get the properties so it involves you having to click on the clip anyway, when you may as well use that click for right clicking, then it's just one further click (ie this is maybe more efficient than clicking + inputting a series of shortcut keys which are often at a premium anyway).

Secondly though, people are so used to right clicking on files in explorer or finder and then clicking properties - this is the same action we're doing which we're used to performing our whole lives with the mouse, not with a keybaord shortcut so it'd be preferable to still do this with the mouse.

[bam11247]

This makes no sense! WHY WOULD YOU CHANGE THIS!?!?! 

[Kevin-Monahan · Accepted solution]

@bam11247,

"This removal was intentional. The track item context menu is way too long, and the use of the Media File Properties is low. Having it in both menus was judged redundant, and making that menu short enough to display on a standard laptop is a goal."

Cheers,

Kevin

[Tom Fewchuk]

I constantly use this and it's so annoying now to have to right click > Reveal in Project, then right click the clip in the project panel > Media File Properties

Are you seriously saying that that option is at the bottom of the list of importance for the context menu? Lower than things like Licence, Ignore Transcript, Auto-Tag Audio Types, Field Options etc.

I think a solution to this ever increasing menu is to put more things in sub groups with the arrow thing or to open it up in a two column menu.

Please revert the Properties button in here, it's a super important part of my workflow.

[Tom Fewchuk]

Also can you present data / surveys / whatever you have to show that the Media File Properties button use is low? All I see on this thread is people saying they do use it.

[leeberman35]

What an absolutely terrible change. So now, instead of "right-click, Properties" I have to "right-click, Reveal in Project, right-click again, Media File Properties", which I find redundant. Please listen to your paying customers and make Properties available from the timeline. Or at least give us the option to create a shortcut for it.