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brucei35586327
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June 10, 2022
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Creating new projects - Terrible new interface

  • June 10, 2022
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I tried searching the forums for an answer, but couldn't find anything in specific. So, is there a way to switch Premiere back to the previous interface when creating new projects from this idiotic new way that Adobe has implimented?

 

This is literally the worst change I have experienced from Adobe in quite a long time.

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    Warren Heaton10841144
    Community Expert
    November 10, 2022

    You can vote for changing this feature here:

     

     

     

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    Andrew25779539nsq5
    New Participant
    November 10, 2022

    Thanks, I was actually just poking around on User Voice to promote this and other changes!

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    Andrew25779539nsq5
    New Participant
    November 10, 2022

    I want to add my voice to those that hate this new interface. It's just terrible, not just from the perspective of all of us who are used to a certain dialogue and are forced to adjust.

     

    Why in the world do I need to take two additional steps to arrive at a place I can choose a directory location of the project, which is what I want to do 80% of the time? Why is 90% of the screen devoted to importing media? I don't understand how "They never expected experienced users would use the new import page" when that's the thing that dominates the interface when you hit "command+alt+n".

     

    If it's not intuitive and clear how to accomplish a most basic and common goal, it's a fundamental failure of design.

    R Neil Haugen
    R Neil Haugen
    Brainiac
    November 10, 2022

    I don't (mostly) disagree with your reaction. It is certainly not a design I would ever have come up with.

     

    But the end working result doesn't depend on what it looks like, but what it does. And how it works. And yes, if you do Name, Location, Create, the result is exactly as it behaved before.

     

    As to using the space ... if you're going to create a place for media importing, it naturally needs to be a large space.

     

    I am mostly critical of them not providing either a Tab action to the Create button, or simply being able to hit Enter after selecting a location and getting an opened project.

     

    Either one would be a huge improvement.

     

    Neil

    Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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    Andrew25779539nsq5
    New Participant
    November 10, 2022

    Thanks for the reply, and yes, being able to tab or hit Enter after selecting a location would be helpful. And I agree that the interface seems useful for importing media. The problem is, that's not what I'm asking the program to do, I'm asking it to create a new project.

     

    It's like if in order to start my car, I had to reach all the way across the dashboard, past the stereo and heating/AC controls, and past the glovebox to do so. Sure, it's the same number of actions and I suppose over time I'd get used to it, but it's incredibly inconvenient.

     

    In the previous interface I also had convenient access to important project settings, like scratch disks and capture settings. It's just a massive step backwards, and I don't understand why they'd want to cram new project creation into a space meant for something else.

    Ann Bens
    Ann Bens
    Community Expert
    June 10, 2022

    Only way to switch back is to downgrade Premiere.

    But you can take a shortcut in the Import tab.

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      brucei35586327Author
      New Participant
      June 10, 2022

      Thanks Ann. While I understand how to use the new interface, it is clumsy, removes easy access to things when creating projects that I need and is a poor attempt at duplicating what some other NLE's are doing. It literally fixes something that wasn't broken.

        R Neil Haugen
        R Neil Haugen
        Brainiac
        November 11, 2022

        I don't get what so surprising in people being hostile to badly designed stuff that makes their life harder.


        Type a project name. Select Location. Click Create.

         

        That's been the process for creating new projects for years.

         

        It is STILL the process for most of us for making new projects.

         

        The only thing "harder" is we have to mouse farther to the Create button ... and yea, I want to be able to Tab/Enter to do that rather than mouse.

         

        But that is the only "extra" work ... mousing a couple more inches.

         

        Neil

        Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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