Update 2023 came with lots of little annoying/unnecessary changes

@braydon We hear you. We've recently improved how we document and publish bugs that we've fixed in each new version. For the next major release, we're going to improve how we document what we've changed. Today, we've got fixed issues, known issues, and major new feature documentation. We're going to add another page that will list everyting that has changed in each release, regardless of how major or minor it might seem. 

Regards,

Fergus

Stan's right on this. And they do have to update the processes, both internally and 'visible' at times. Or ... become an quaint old antique.

On another forum I'm on, there's been a ton of discussions of the Avid potential/now-announced sale. And one thing that came up there, was how many editors used to work in Avid, but though it's still pretty rock-solid, well ... keeping complete backwards capability has greatly limited updating of so many things, that they'd left Avid. Even though neither Premiere nor Resolve totally floated their boats. But at least, they did enough things better than Avid at this time.

But it's darn annoying when the defaults are changed and you don't know they are!

And like you, Stan, and others, that whole track pasting thing still bumps me at times, as I've got to get enough times doing it to forget about the old method in the fingers. It will happen, but ... it ain't fun along the way.

@braydon,

I hear you. Such changes can be confusing. But it is true that they are usually done for what are believed to be good reasons. And it is true that many users often disagree. And either way, there is an adjustment period that can be frustrating. I don't conclude that Adobe can avoid this, but it emphasizes that a) any changes should be warranted and b) the heads-up needs improvement.

The change in default paste behavior is one of my favorite examples of confusion. Here's the post where I discovered the change:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/track-targeting-broken/m-p/13027276#M418096

I knew the change was coming from seeing it in the Beta version, and I thought I was going to like it. And I actually do like having the additional paste options, but I prefer the old default. But when I encountered questions and confusion about the change in the Release version, it was nowhere in my mind.

This was actually changed in PR 22.5:

https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/whats-new/2022-5.html#paste-same-track

So there was a clear explanation about the change. But in today's world, I admit that I do not read the documentation ahead to see if an old, familiar behavior has changed.

This was my detailed description of the change:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/track-targeting-broken/m-p/13034226#M418688

While many users prefer the old behavior, this was done because it was believed that this was the better behavior going forward. (Is this default paste the Avid method?)

In any event, and you probably know this now, you can modify shortcuts to 1) only use the old method or 2) modify the new method so you keep the old shortcuts but have the new ones.

1) Delete the shortcuts in the Panel -> Timeline section of the Keyboard customization: "Paste Insert To Same Track" -> Ctrl+Shift+V and Paste [Overwrite] To Same Track -> Ctrl+V.

2) Delete as in #1, so the application-wide shortcuts are used for targeted tracks, and then assign your own to take advantage of the paste insert/overwrite to same track.

A big change in 23.4 is the new Text-based editing/Source media transcription. It is a fantastic feature, but it has a learning curve, and it changes some basic functions (how to transcribe a sequence).

Stan