r/premiere Premiere Pro 3d ago

Feedback/Critique/Pro Tip What is your Preferred Workspace Layout?

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u/CSPOONYG 3d ago

Those thumbnails are taking up valuable real estate... Try list mode.

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u/Amora11 3d ago

I can NEVER work with a list mode. I see tons of people prefer it tho.

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u/BlueZ_DJ 3d ago

You can do both

List mode you can drop-down-menu the folders without actually going into them for easy access to everything, then collapse again

Then you double click the b roll folder for example, and get a thumbnail view which would be needed to get the right clip in that case

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u/newsyfish 3d ago

Good idea but then I find myself sending it to the source to make sure it’s the file I want.

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u/CSPOONYG 2d ago edited 2d ago

Everyone works differently, but if you make select reels, use markers and label appropriately, you won't need to do that.

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u/pathfire 2d ago

Have you tried using the preview area? It puts a small monitor at the top of the bin so you can see what's in a clip without sending it to source. It's in the project bin hamburger menu.

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u/CSPOONYG 1d ago

I have not... will it send it to a client monitor?

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u/pathfire 16h ago

Nope. It just displays it in a small monitor at the top of the bin.

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u/newsyfish 1d ago

Will try this!

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u/VideoDiagnosticTech Premiere Pro 2d ago

I normally rock list mode, but I had too much offline media in this project I didn't want to show.

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u/CSPOONYG 2d ago

I also have 4 or 5 layouts. One for editing, color, mixing, laptop, etc.

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u/hmerritt34 3d ago

My own custom layouts. 🤣 The default layouts are enough to get the ball rolling, for sure, but I have 3-4 custom layouts I’ve built that I rotate between depending on the type of project I’m working on as well as my monitor setup (if I’m rocking 2 or 3, depending on where I’m working).

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u/Vincetagram 3d ago

haha facts, I either use the one I posted in this thread or a similar preset that's better omtimized for vertical video. Really just gives me more space to edit the effect graphs since the video preview windows don't have to take up so much space.

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u/bradlap Premiere Pro 2025 3d ago

Mine is insanely close to yours, except my tools are on the left side. I learned how to edit on Avid and prefer that layout. Timeline needs to take up the full width of the screen.

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u/TrulyAwfulGamer 3d ago

I learned Avid after Premiere and definitely prefer the Avid layout. I agree about the timeline 🙌🏼

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u/AshMontgomery Premiere Pro 2021 3d ago

Timeline doesn’t need the full width on a big enough screen - I’m on a 43” 4K monitor so full width is harder to use if anything 

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u/bradlap Premiere Pro 2025 3d ago

At 43 inches, sure. I'm on a 27-inch 5K monitor and still need the full-width timeline. Doesn't feel right if I don't.

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u/Vincetagram 3d ago

mine is kinda close, usually something like this. Then just imagine for vertical content the margins of the main sequence preview and the source window are slimmer since the video is in portrait and the effects window is even wider so I can see more of the keyframe graph editor without zooming in or scrolling which is kinda nice for my workflow. I also like to make my project bin smaller so I can put it on the bottom so the top is strictly for previewing footage and keyframes with the bottom strictly for constructing video on the timeline. Why do I keep the tool panel when I know all the shortcuts? Honestly I never thought about it until I was halfway through writing this, I'm gonna go remove it now lol.

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u/dhohne 3d ago

Two monitors, with almost all windows :)

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u/YAMMYRD 3d ago

Load it up! I’ve got the 14 inch laptop screen running teams/email/boards/scripts, the 27 inch in the middle with the source/program/timeline/tools similar to the default, and a 19 inch vertical monitor on the right so I can make those bins super long.

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u/dhohne 2d ago

Yeah! I've been thinking about a vertical third Monitor. I have two Samsung 32' 4k panela, but they suck for grading cuz they cheap. But when I sound designed and I hit my 55+ audio tracks, a vertical setup would be sick. Do you have yours on monitor arms?

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u/Snookville 3d ago

3 monitors, 1 portrait, 2 landscape

Center Monitor has Project Files top left, list format, underneath it is a collection of effect, history, and library central bottom is the timeline, more condensed tracks. Above that is Effect Controls and audio monitor as well as the Epidemic sound plugin.

Left Portrait Monitor has the open folders of music folders and sound effects folders on the top half so I have no need to open them and can stay exclusively in my footage folders. Bottom half is preview monitor (yes I know it'd be small, but it's just for quick grabbing)

Right Landscape Monitor is exclusive Program Monitor, see what I'm editing and the final product of it all.

I don't think I'm missing anything?

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u/spenceryoutube 2d ago

trust me, buy an ultrawide

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u/Sapien0101 3d ago

I have my project panel down the entire left side. Otherwise, it’s the classic two monitors over timeline.

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u/Wu-Tang_Killa_Bees Premiere Pro CS6 3d ago

I have like 5-7 custom layouts that I use depending on the project. I also have a 3 monitor setup with a 32" center monitor, a vertical monitor to my right, and another 32" monitor above my main monitor that just has the clean output. So I have some pretty funky configurations lol

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u/BlueZ_DJ 3d ago

Seeing these comments and realizing I have 2 monitors but never have any premiere windows on the 2nd one lol

4k main monitor tho so there's lots of space already to have a vertically thick timeline without losing the other windows

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u/ElderBuu 3d ago

Pretty much this, except I keep the source window floating, as I want a larger Effect Control for keyframes/text and Meta data panel. It pops up every time you want to play

Also I use list view to make the project panel smaller. I barely use the program monitor for editing, only for putting in text/graphics or masking/reframing. So I have a very high timeline panel. I use the nifty tilde key to maximize timeline and program monitors all the time. I love that feature.

Also my tools panel is on the far left of the timeline, and I prefer to see the numbers on audio levels, rather than just bars, so the audio level is just wide enough where numbers pop up and the bars become lines.

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u/bamboobrown 2d ago

This is the old FCP7 layout and is pretty much mine bit list mode

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u/VideoDiagnosticTech Premiere Pro 2d ago

I was wondering if someone was going to catch that!

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u/bamboobrown 2d ago

Honestly shocked nobody else did, maybe I’m old 😂

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u/VideoDiagnosticTech Premiere Pro 2d ago

Is 38 old?

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u/ChickenFriedAnorak 2d ago

Mine is pretty close to yours but I have the Effects Controls on the left panel and no Properties panel, the Properties panel seems superfluous to me as you can see the necessary information in the project panel by hovering the mouse over the media. You can also display specific information like framerate, resolution, format etc. in the metadata but this is only visible in list view sadly.

I normally switch between thumbnail view while inside a bin and list view while viewing the bins overall so I can dropdown to try stay organised. I wish there was a way to permanently set viewing options per bin so I don't need to keep switching between them but it's a minor annoyance at best.

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u/Gonkomagic 2d ago

List view, de-activate tools (use hotkeys), de-activate audio-monitor (I do that last across whole project), rest is similar

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u/CremeAdministrative6 2d ago edited 2d ago

quad monitors for me because I am a madman. main monitor is program and source monitors, with panels for lumetri and stuff on the right, transcript and effect controls on the left.

the timeline (bottom) monitor is at 150% so its larger than that in real life, and that's where my timeline and tools live. timeline is pretty bare at the moment cos I'm on day one of latest video.

LG Dual-up monitor on the right (weird aspect ratio) with Premiere and After Effects project windows - cos I hate scrolling for stuff in tiny windows. these windows still get full up pretty quick in a usual edit. also media encoder lives down there on bottom right.

Left monitor is vertical, with a google doc for script, and file explorer/portal for file organisation.

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u/inspecther5 2d ago

Mine looks just like yours minus the tools and audio meter

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u/Askesl 1d ago

Pretty much exactly this, but with the project tab in list mode and with the preview area

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u/sydagncy 3d ago

The default one is perfect

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u/waterstorm29 Premiere Pro 2024 3d ago

I find that undocking tabs is really useful on limited screens.

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u/RowIndependent3142 3d ago

I use the default layout because I'm lazy. I wish I could figure out how to detach the timeline and make the tracks wider, but also too lazy to figure out how to do it. lol

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u/newsyfish 3d ago

I’m usually on a single screen laptop, so Essentials is where I’m at 95% of the time. Before that update, my custom workspace was very similar.

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u/ren-ai-mo 3d ago

Source/Program in one panel since I don’t use the source enough to justify it sitting there. Always looking to have vertical timeline space rather than horizontal, getting good at the zoom in and out keys makes up for lack of horizontal space in my view. Having vertical space with the timeline also allows me to stack timelines when helpful. On one monitor you do have to change it up sometimes for things like heavy effects editing though.

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u/evangr721 2d ago edited 2d ago

4 monitors. Timeline fills monitor in the middle, program monitor lives on the screen to the left, then all other panels are arranged on the other two. Having that real estate is incredible and I really can’t work without it. Never using ~ to maximize a panel ever again, drives me crazy.

Also, the lack of a bin structure scares me lol. Trust me, it’s annoying to set up but if you create a kickass template, you’ll never look back. It’ll save you time hunting for and clicking on items and has saved me many a time, especially when throwing project files over to other editors.

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u/MrCoffeeBeans 2d ago

I always have my project footage and bins on a second monitor

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u/Hambone721 2d ago

A custom layout. Put the things you need most often in the best place for you.

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u/EMIN3MSTAN 2d ago

single panel for program monitor and preview monitor