• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Tools Palette – Bug or Feature

  Posted by Mike Jackson on August 19, 2014 at 6:55 pm

  So after holding on desperately to FCP 7 as long as I could, I’m slowly making the transition to Premiere CC 2014 on real jobs. Last time I tried working with Premiere was CS6, and it was still just buggy enough that I didn’t trust it… but CC 2014 has impressed the hell out of me. Performance is finally smooth, and roundtripping my sound mix through Audition was a dream.

  Anyway, one thing keeps driving me nuts and interrupting my workflow. I made a feature request direct to Adobe and was basically told “no no, that’s on purpose, it’s awesome. You’re wrong.”

  So I really want to know if I’m deluding myself, or if other editors are frustrated by this too:

  The Tools palette steals focus. Time and again, I’m working in the timeline, go to click on the razor (or any other tool), try to use cursor keys to nudge the playhead for my exact edit point, and it does nothing. I have to stop, click on the timeline again, and only then do the keyboard commands start working again. Pretty irritating.

  I can’t think of ANY other piece of software I’ve used that lets the tools palette steal focus from whatever window you’re working in. Not FCP Classic, not After Effects, not Photoshop. (Can you imagine having to re-click on your image every time you switched from a brush to the eraser?)

  (Oh, and yes I know that if I memorize the keyborad commands for switching tools, I can bypass this behaviour. That’s not the point.)

  Anyway, I was assured that letting the Tools palette steal focus is evidently awesome. So, is the guy at Adobe right? Or does this behaviour irritate other editors? Has anyone EVER had a situation where letting the Tools palette steal focus has been HELPFULL?

  Tim Kolb replied 11 years, 8 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  Kevin Monahan

  August 19, 2014 at 8:53 pm

  Hi Mike,
  Feel free to submit a request here: https://adobe.ly/feature_request

  Thanks,
  Kevin

  Kevin Monahan
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  Alex Udell

  August 19, 2014 at 9:22 pm

  i didn’t know….but your post really did make my day! 🙂

  Alex Udell
  Editing, Motion Graphics, and Visual FX
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  Tim Kolb

  August 20, 2014 at 2:40 am

  Nope…not useful.

  …and I’m NOT a former FCP user.

  🙂

  TimK,
  Director, Consultant
  Kolb Productions,

  Adobe Certified Instructor

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