Program monitor during playback in always in focus; preventing effects panel or mixer to be seen

This was an intentional change in CC7.2.1. It's possible that a workspace such as yours with no Program Monitor was not taken into account when developing this change. Regardless, feel free to submit a bug report here.

I'm not aware of an option to disable this new behavior. But since I did not work on this feature, it's entirely possible that such an option was added without me knowing about it.

Please be aware that even if your request for a change is made a priority, it could be some time before an update delivers the change. So you may want to add a tiny instance of the Program Monitor to your main workspace in an unobtrusive spot. Here's an example.

You are playing with fire here. I already went through hell trying to open projects that were created in 5.5 with a custom work space. All my projects have been archived with the belief that premiere will always be forwards compatible as it has been in the past. So many bugs, so many fixes, I need a stable programe to make deliveries to networks. I am quite frankly scared to update.

What I did was submit "feature request". Was this wrong place to do it? Should I place it as BUG ?

Filing it as a feature request is just fine. I believe both types of submissions are channeled to the product team the same, and the same people have access to both--the only difference being whether they're flagged as bug reports or feature requests.

I have worked with Avid, FCP, and many others. Creative cloud is breaking my heart. I look like an ediot at the company I own for upgrading. All the new improvements sucked me in while all the bugs coast me time/money every day. Now I am stuck, it is a big headache to go backwards. The stupid thing is one of the resons I changed was convience. Everytime i wanted to change computers due to hardware issues I had to spend hours on the phone with adobe because the software (5.5) would not let me install it. Adobe is spending millons creating products like speed grade which are compleatelty usless if your core editing program is unstable and full of bugs.

Last two bugs in the last two days. Project manager, on moving a project to a new location could not find the files.

The project was linked to .pek files instead of the .mp4 files it was created with. Exporteravi.prm still crashes Premiere on launch, bug nut fixed.

I also don't like that the Program Monitor is always taking focus now.  I had it set up where the Program Monitor and Audio Mixer could share the same monitor, and I could select between them depending on what I was doing (I don't need to see the picture while mixing audio).  That was the perfect alternating use a single panel in my workspace.  I hope that the Program focus behavior can be made optional instead of fixed.

-ALi

I think it's awkward to install such a feature without a setting to turn it off. Now i've always to drop the audio mixer out of the dock when I'm doing the audio.

I'll post a feature request on that.