Premiere Pro TRUE Fullscreen Tutorial: Hide Title, Header and Status Bar

Premiere Pro True Fullscreen

Adobe Premiere Pro introduced several new toolbars to its user interface in version 23. One such addition is the Header Bar, which includes buttons for importing, editing, and exporting, as well as quick access to progress tracking. However, many editors rarely use this feature and find themselves wishing for more control over their workspace, especially the ability to show or hide the Header Bar.

While Premiere Pro naively doesn’t offer a feature to hide this bar out of the box, there are solutions available to still configure it to your preferences. One such solution is using AutoHotkey, a free scripting tool that allows for customizing the appearance and behavior of windows.

With this tool you can easily hide or show any toolbar or window in Premiere Pro, including the header bar. You can even assign custom hotkeys to toggle certain toolbars or a true full-screen mode. You can even configure it tor automatically settings based on the editing mode.

Hiding the Toolbars using AutoHotkey

Here’s how you can use AutoHotkey to customize your Premiere Pro workspace and gain more control over toolbars:

1. Install AutoHotkey: Downloading and install AutoHotkey (v1.1) from the official website.
2. Create a AHK File: Create a script file. Below you can find an example that you can customize to your needs.
3. Customize: If needed, you can customize your script by assigning different hotkeys or deciding which components to show and which to hide.
4. Run the Script: After writing and saving your script, simply run it by double clicking the file.
5. Use Hotkey: Use the hotkey specified in the script to toggle the true full-screen. The default hotkey is Control + Shift + F

Below, you’ll find the script you can use to hide the Premiere Pro toolbars. After launching the script, you can use Ctrl + Shift + F to toggle the toolbars.

;Hotkey: Ctrl + Shift + F
^+F::

;Premiere Pro Top Bar
Control, Style, ^0x10000000 , DroverLord - Window Class30, ahk_class Premiere Pro
Control, Style, ^0x10000000 , DroverLord - Window Class29, ahk_class Premiere Pro

;Premiere Pro Bottom Bar
Control, Style, ^0x10000000 , DroverLord - Window Class31, ahk_class Premiere Pro
Control, Style, ^0x10000000 , DroverLord - Window Class32, ahk_class Premiere Pro

;Hide Title Bar 
WinSet, Style, ^0x800000, ahk_class Premiere Pro


;Refreshes the Window
WinSet, Redraw ,, ahk_class Premiere Pro
WinShow, ahk_class Premiere Pro

Customizing the Behaviour

The first line of the script defines the hotkey that triggers the script. In this case Ctrl + Shift + F. If you want to change the hotkey, you can modify this line. For example, if you want to use Ctrl + Alt + I, you would replace ^+F with ^!I.

^+F::

Header / Top Bar

Control, Style, ^0x10000000 , DroverLord – Window Class30, ahk_class Premiere Pro
Control, Style, ^0x10000000 , DroverLord – Window Class29, ahk_class Premiere Pro

Those lines hide the top bar in Premiere Pro. If you do not want to hide the header bar, you can simply comment out or delete these lines. To do so, add a semicolon at the beginning of the line.

Status / Bottom Bar

Control, Style, ^0x10000000 , DroverLord – Window Class31, ahk_class Premiere Pro
Control, Style, ^0x10000000 , DroverLord – Window Class32, ahk_class Premiere Pro

Similarly, the above hides the bottom bar in Premiere Pro. If you want to disable this, you can comment out or delete these lines as well.

Title / Windows Bar

WinSet, Style, ^0x800000, ahk_class Premiere Pro

This line hides the title bar in Premiere Pro.

The below refresh the window and ensure that the changes take effect. You don’t need to modify these lines.

WinSet, Redraw ,, ahk_class Premiere Pro WinShow, ahk_class Premiere Pro

After making any changes to the script, save the file and run it using AutoHotkey. Now, whenever you press the defined hotkey, it will execute the modified script according to your preferences.

Hiding Even More Bars

In theory, you can hide any Premiere Pro bar by changing the “DroverLord – Window Class31” to the control name of the bar or panel that you want to hide. You can use the AutoHotkey Window Spy tool to find out the correct control name.

Premiere Pro Automation

If you are familiar with scripting you can go for even more advanced Premiere Pro automation by utilizing ExtendScript. Tools like the ExtendScript Developer Tools can help you in learning, debuggin and writing scripts and even whole extensions for Premiere Pro.