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MacBook Pro Touch Bar customization

Forum|Forum|8 years ago
April 23, 2017
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The 2017.1 release of PPRO has a option for "Custom Touch Bar..." under the Premiere Pro CC menu.

What it seems to offer is a few (about 4 or 5) pre-selected commands that can be mapped to the Touch Bar.

They are different, depending on the context from which you enter the "Custom Touch Bar..." mode, but the choice is always very limited.

Looking for ways to expand on those commands -- to be able to bring any command down to the Touch Bar.

Is that possible?

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Eric Schaechter

Participant

I know this is an old thread, but the ability to have sliders for values would be nice (for example once you hit a number in the effects editor, drag its value with the touchpad.

Also, buttons with modifiers would be nice (so that if you press Option or Command, a new set of buttons come up on the touchpad, effectively giving you threefold as many touchpad buttons).

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wkutu

Participating Frequently

Timeline scrubbing/scrolling would be more useful to me than anything else. Clip dragging an nudging might be a second one. All the current options are easily accessed with hotkeys that provide tactile feedback. For a pro-level machine, professionals will just find quick buttons on the touch bar to be an impediment to efficiency.

gafafafafaf

Participant

Call me old-fashioned, but I'd like to see the edit buttons as an option - to Insert/Overwrite instead of having to hit the FN key to get the old keys back.

Truthfully, the touchbar controls on Premiere are not just limited, they're pretty pointless too. For instance, the shortcut (on my setup) to add a marker is "m." The button that is right above the trackpad. Why would I ever want to venture six inches higher to hit the touchbar for it?

PremiopolisAuthor

Inspiring

gafafafafaf wrote
Call me old-fashioned, but I'd like to see the edit buttons as an option - to Insert/Overwrite instead of having to hit the FN key to get the old keys back.

Agreed. The value of that touch bar is that they are a) dynamic / context sensitive; b) self-descriptive via icon or text. But at the cost of having to hit the FN key. Would be great if that were an option.

Truthfully, the touchbar controls on Premiere are not just limited, they're pretty pointless too. For instance, the shortcut (on my setup) to add a marker is "m." The button that is right above the trackpad. Why would I ever want to venture six inches higher to hit the touchbar for it?

Here I'd disagree. The more buttons the merrier. The touch bar isn't intrinsically pointless because of its location. Its just that it can't be customized to any reasonable degree.

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Anonymous

any updates on the customization? severely limited options...

SteveHoeg

Adobe Employee

What other functionality would you find a priority to add next?

ETorr

Inspiring

Ideally it would involve a secondary change request which would inform and empower this one: that commands from Keyboard Shortcuts (i.e. the full suite of avail commands) can be dragged to command-mappable locations, like the button bars under the Source and Program Panels, not to mention the Timeline Panel, and any other panels, (all with regard for the fact that some commands don't apply to certain contexts).

With that functionality in mind, the Touch Bar becomes another location where commands could be dragged.

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