Posted by Francis-Crossman in the Adobe Support Community:

Finally when you drag folders into premier they will match the Finder structure! WHY HASN’T THIS BEEN LIKE THIS FOREVER?!?!??!?!

Previously it would leave out empty folders, folders with 1 item, and now it will import empty bins!

I always want my structure to match, so this is awesome and I wish it was out today in the normal version.

Adobe had previously added Click and Drag to mutiple track targets in Premiere Pro Beta by holding down cmd/ctrl or adding shift to invert, but they have extended that it:

Toggle Track Lock

Toggle Sync Lock

Toggle Track Output

Mute

Solo

Woohoo, this is awesome!

As posted by Marjorie Sacks from Adobe int he Adobe Premiere Pro Beta discussions.

Track targeting just got a lot easier in Premiere Pro (Beta). You can select and target multiple source or target tracks by holding down CMD/CTRL as you click and drag the cursor across multiple track buttons in the timeline panel.

Holding down CMD/CTRL + Shift while dragging will invert the targeted selection.

Yea I could not be happier about this, AVID always did a better job with track selection, and this does a lot to bridge that gap.

Adobe has updated the default paste behavior in Premiere Pro beta, and added 4 new functions that can be added to keyboard shortcuts.

Paste To Same Track is the new default, which is the behavior that I want 90% of the time. I love this because I place things in specific tracks, having a very organized timeline, so I usually wants things to just go where they were in a different place in the timeline.

And you can also Paste Insert, as well as Paste to Target Track and Paste Insert to Target Track which can also be added to keyboard shortcuts.

Francis-Crossman an adobe employee has posted a discussion for the Premiere Pro Beta on the Workspace Switcher Improvements in the header bar.

It is certainly an improvement to their upgrade which was going to hide workspaces behind multiple clicks, while this allows for single click to your favorite workspaces.

This new version is not the default which just shows the active worksapce, but if you click and select show workspace.

You can now scroll through workspaces or edit workspaces to edit which ones show.

Certainly an improvement from hiding workspaces completely, I still am not sure about the new header bar, which seems to make import and export more important than the meat of editing itself, butt this is at least an improvement.

Starting with the Adobe Premiere Pro beta and it’s redesigned header bar, which their is a discussion on about at the Adobe Support Community for Premiere Pro Beta.

Where adobe moved the workspaces to under a single button with no display for what workspace you are in. And when us users gave feedback their seemed to be a fight back.

Ann (and everyone else) – I hear you about the change in muscle memory and requiring 2 clicks instead of one. I really do empathize – change is hard. I was an editor for 10 years before joing the software game and the placement of buttons is cemented in my brain. I too didn’t like the workspaces in the dropdown menu at first. But I have been using it now for a few months (yes I still edit constantly) and I’ve found that I prefer the menu dropdown. It’s a much better use of space, a cleaner look, and you can see all your workspaces at once without needing the overflow menu. I ask that you give it a chance and push past the innitial discomfort and really try this new arrangement. Also remember that this is not the end of the road. And getting reactions like this is exactly why we put it in beta first before just releasing and forcing it upon everyone.

This was my first instance of Adobe telling me that more than one click was better than one click (and in this case wasting space and not displaying the current workspace). Now in this instance at least Adobe seems to have relented and is going to allow us to display 3 workspaces in the title bar, though not by default.

And then at the Facebook Premiere Pro Editors user group, which I have subsequently left since my posts had links to this blog and I was told users didn’t like that, and I my tone had to be calmer and more deferential to Adobe employees who post on it, when posting about the now completely changed methods for dealing with the damn (see that is what would piss them off) ALEXA AMIRA LUT, I was told the new method was faster, when it takes more clicks, so obviously it is not.

Previously I could select all my footage and right click and Disable Master Clips. Now I have to right click go to drop down menu and select Interpret Footage, then in the subsequent dialogue go down to color man agement and select the Embedded AMIRA LUT drop down menu and then select none. IN NO WAY IS THAT FASTER THAN BEING ABLE TO TURN IT OFF FROM THE DROP DOWN MENU.

Now the first example they fixed after user feedback. The second is part of a re-designed Color Management System, that doesn’t seem to be documented at all by Adobe as of yet (boy they could learn something from Black Magic Designs about manuals especially for release versions, ha again something that would have gotten me reprimanded by the Premier Pro Editors User Group) and my questions on it were pulled from the group, so I deleted them, which is why Adobe employees should just be interacting on their own web site, and not in places where people unaffiliated with Adobe are removing posts because of tone or linking to content not on Facebook (if you at all read this site, you see I do long posts with many images, so there is no way I could do the same in a facebook post), so there is no chance for Adobe to comment or users to share their opinion and maybe get things changed.

And it does worry me that in both situations the Adobe employees told us that the new methods were faster, when they are demonstrably not. They are working on a slow but full rework of Premiere Pro, and it is statements like this that worry me the most. They think their new way is better and faster, and just implement something slower.

I mean why didn’t the whole Color Management change show up in the Beta? It just showed up in the release version, un-vetted by end users.

Now the fact that the did change the first example does give hope, but the new Import and Export dialogues being given such prominence over work spaces does worry me. Especially since so much of the weirdness of the new Export Dialogue doesn’t seem to have changed since it first hit the beta.

Anyway I am just thinking out loud here as I like to do here. You be the judge.

Adobe has updated Premiere Pro as they go into the onine Adobe Max this morning. I have to say I much enjoy being able to see all of the classes online.

As for Adobe’s new features.

*We get unified version numbers across the video suite, so all compatible versions will now be version 22 (should’t they have just gone back to 1?)

*Speach to Text Improvements with improved accuracy for pop culture terminology and better formatting of dates and numbers

*Simplify Sequences has moved from Beta, I still think this could have been a great spot to add in unmerge, since merging audio clips is totally broken.

*Color management for H.264 and HEVC H.265, WHICH IS HUGE! You can now include correct color space metadata on exports, like DaVinci has allowed you to do for a while. So people on Macs should actually see what your show will look like correctly.

*Improved 10 bit HEVC playback and improved M1 support (lets hope it includes M1 Pro and Max support)

•Color management for Sony XAVC-L-HDR

•A new colorized vectorscope

•Improved Histogram

•Lumetri curve refinements

•Restore trim selection in the timeline

•Improved Media relinking for Team Projects

•Improved Bars and Tone for both HDR and SDR.

•New GPU Acceleration for effects, Alpha Glow, Mirror, Reduce Interlace Flicker and strobe are GPU accelerated.

AND IN BETA

•REMIX powered by Adobe Sensei, to intelligently re-arrange songs so that music matches your video, instead of cuts and crossfades let it do it itself. I can’t wait to try this out.

•Auto Tone, better auto color in Lumetri, a good start point.

*Speech to Text on-device without the internet for faster results.

*Improvements for new Import Mode, which is good because it needs a whole lot of work.

Awesome, looking forward to trying it out.