Agree, this is straight up awful. This is stealing time from everyone, making it more complicated than it needs to be. I just want to select a folder and start the project, then I'll adjust as required moving along from there.

Workaround: I always have "template projects" that I start from instead, to bypass this PROBLEM.

Not gonna take too much of your time, I really dislike the new Premiere export workflow. To me it's extremely clunky, takes far more clicks than it used to, and overall just is a speed bump to my process that didn't exist before.

Obviously just going back is probably not going to happen for a plethora of reasons and new users may prefer the new menu. However, for legacy users who have been using the program for a decade plus, why not have some kind of option to keep using the old process? It would solve any immediate issues that the new export page has as you could default back to the old window at any time. And old crabby users like me would be happy since we don't have to change our workflow at all.

Just a thought!

This and the Export UI. Atrocious.

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, when I ask the program to create a new project, am I faced with an interface dominated by importing media? Why don't I have convenient access to important project settings, like scratch disks and capture settings?

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

!!!! Adobe are making all there software harder to work with. Why this strategy?? In Photoshop before to save you ad two options save and save as, now you have maaany option to do the same, export, export for screen, save as, save, and every way have their own extension. But why adobe? do you want to sell courses or do you want to sink?

Is a **** this version, I am teaching Premiere to students and I feel embarrasing teaching a ****** software, doesnt look proffesional at all, because not intuitive is an absolutelly incomprehensible interface

Heres is some useful feedback.

Make workflows faster. Make rendering and useability faster. simple. UI should be last ion the list. And ui should change incrementally - not drastically - UNLESS - its really solving a problem. And consult your paying customers - people who actually use this software on a daily basis.

I think this, along with final cuts insanely fast speed, will be the migration BACK to final cut.

I migrated to a pc for gpu rendering for CGI. But adobe doesnt work well on pc at all. So Im actually having to buy a mac studio for adobe. But that means I can use final cut? mmmmmm I see a mass migration happening. It happended in reverse once - I was there - we all went from Final Cut to premier - the glory days. Adobe worked. We were all supporters.

Do a consensus of your customers now? You'll soon see - we are about to jump ship.

Final cut is a one off payment. Adobe has so far cost me 10's of thousands. its a no brainer.

I spent 40 minutes trying to create a project and add select one file to start the project. I'm also spending time writing this comment, hopefully, it is useful.

My old workflow: I used to create an empty project and drag and drop resources.

New workflow painpoints:
1. I can't paste my project folder but has to go through the "Choose folder" option and locate my folder step by step. A bit cumbersome to force me to use your folder selection. Make the dropdown editable please.

2. I have to select at least 1 resource to be able to create the project (don;t do that please!). I now need to dig into folders, folder by folder wait at every step for the display of thumbnails, when navigating folders it is likely that all resources will become selected and it is impossible to bulk unselect, the grid view and all thumbnails become very slow, the UI is not responsive. I selected 999+ files by mistake (I don't know how). I switched to the list view but it is not faster and not bulk unselect either. Where is the bulk-unselect option?

I spent a huge amount of time (it was a 15-second step before) and I failed: the start button wasn't even enabled. I canceled the creation since the UI was frozen.

My workaround is to not browse and add a random clip, create the project and then delete the random clip.

Forcing users to find a workaround to a new design is probably not the desired outcome your UX team was expecting.

Please leave the create button enabled no matter what (don't copy Rush please)

I spent 40 minutes trying to create a project and add select one file to start the project. I'm also spending time writing this comment, hopefully, it is useful.

My old workflow: I used to create an empty project and drag and drop resources.

New workflow painpoints:
1. I can't paste my project folder but has to go through the "Choose folder" option and locate my folder step by step. A bit cumbersome to force me to use your folder selection. Make the dropdown editable please.

2. I have to select at least 1 resource to be able to create the project (don;t do that please!). I now need to dig into folders, folder by folder wait at every step for the display of thumbnails, when navigating folders it is likely that all resources will become selected and it is impossible to bulk unselect, the grid view and all thumbnails become very slow, the UI is not responsive. I selected 999+ files by mistake (I don't know how). I switched to the list view but it is not faster and not bulk unselect either. Where is the bulk-unselect option?

I spent a huge amount of time (it was a 15-second step before) and I failed: the start button wasn't even enabled. I canceled the creation since the UI was frozen.

My workaround is to not browse and add a random clip, create the project and then delete the random clip.

Forcing users to find a workaround to a new design is probably not the desired outcome your UX team was expecting.

Please leave the create button enabled no matter what (don't copy Rush please)

Wow... I haven't been using Premiere in a few months and now I come back to this way of creating a project which is ABSOLUTELY terrible. I'm of a mind to uninstall the app... what have you done to what was an quick and effective way to open a file. Not only is it now completely unintuitive, but it slows my computer massively...

Pretty much agree with all the other comments. Save this garbage for Premiere lite. Keep the pro version for pros.

Terrible for the workflow. My time for export increased. Please bring back the old way thank you.

Why would you add a complex interface for something as basic as creating a new project? I switched to Premiere from Final Cut to get AWAY from horrible choices like this. It's an absolutely awful UI, with folders indicated by the word "folder" instead of any of the standard visual cues we've gotten used to over the last 30 years, and no matter what I do, it tries to import files, wasting valuable time. PLEASE go back to the old interface.

I'd be embarrassed to tell people I work for adobe knowing these are the updates they roll out. Idk who green lit this one.

Insane Adobe, how awful can you make your product!! seriously, I've lost a day of work and premier can't even bring in a simple video?????? How much do we pay a month for a product that doesn't function? Can I start getting discounted rates on my bill since your product is unusable half the time? It's amazing how you can steal from your customers and make a product unusable, truly amazing Adobe, keep up the good work!

Worst part is, I'm doing a simple slideshow and I want it HD screen aspect ratio, but it keeps auto-sizing to the largest picture. WTH? This is insane.

This feels like the god awful Adobe Rush. Dumbing it down for the social media dilettantes. Please Adobe, change this back!

Absolutely terrible. As an editor of over 20 years I cannot figure out how successfully create a project. After 15 mins of frustrating **** I downgraded my software just to be able to work. Looks like that Davinci resolve pipeline is about to become the studios main software. The last few years of adobe using industry professionals as beta testers is infuriating. Im over this ****! get your **** together Adobe.

Jesus. It takes money out of my pocket. People around me think that I'm not even able to start a project.... It makes me look and feel stupid. Remove this **** immediately!!!!!

It's bad and slow. At this point I lost 10 minutes because I still wait for this piece of garbage to react to my clics. Why would you make your own software worse and unusable? I cannot understand, but at least you get my money every month. I guess people should use DaVinci for free.

This is terrible, the new file creation system is so incredibly frustrating. I can't believe they added this "feature" it's awful. Remove it, burn it, and throw it in the garbage. It's god awful.

No fan, horrible. Detailed export options all gone? I like the look of fresh-looking things, but not if it's changing functionality and workflow–how dare you! Did you survey your paying users by chance? I'll have to start using another solution, as Premiere has ruined the experience. Exporting an mp4 won't hold the matched video size, it goes ahead and changes my video size, wtf! Adobe has been making horrible changes lately, even photoshop has more issues for the sake of looks. I've been with Adobe for decades but there are other options out there. Stupid ideas like this are exactly what help those platforms.