Sadly, he's right.  Premiere and AE used to be the only game in town worth playing.  Unfortunately, the reputation of laggy, buggy software has many long-time customers looking to see what else is available out there.  My guess is Adobe is making the shift to "consumer grade" mobile apps and will be abandoning Pro users in the years ahead.  It will be interesting to see who steps in to fill the gap.  My money is on DaVinci.  ... View more

Timeline scrubbing/scrolling would be more useful to me than anything else.  Clip dragging an nudging might be a second one.  All the current options are easily accessed with hotkeys that provide tactile feedback.  For a pro-level machine, professionals will just find quick buttons on the touch bar to be an impediment to efficiency. ... View more

I inferred from this tweet by Adobe support that it's not a "bug" but part of the design.  Apparently trackpad was never designed to support gestures, only screen.  That's the case in Photoshop according to the tweet, and I'm assuming it's true across the board.  Unfortunate since they're supported by Mac's trackpad, but I'm not an engineer so it may be totally reasonable.  I think I'm going to have to return the Surfacebook and retreat back to a Macbook.  😞 ... View more

Please note that this is a new Surface Book 2.  This model was only released last week, so not sure if those bug fixes apply. I just tried it on Premiere CC 2018 and the same thing is happening: When using the touchscreen, multitouch is working as expected.  However,   when I try to use the trackpad, it is not.  For example, when I pinch to zoom on the timeline, the cursor turns into a symbol of a blue arrow pointing left with green vertical lines on either side.  Something like this:  | <--|.  It doesn't seem to actually do anything and when I stop pinching it turns back to the regular select arrow. Two finger scrolling works horizontally but vertically it either does nothing or interprets it as a horizontal scroll. I should finally point out that otherwise the multitouch precision touchpad is working fine in other software:  pinch to zoom working in Chrome, multifinger gestures working on Windows, etc.  However I'm getting the same "touchscreen only" issue in Photoshop and After Effects.  I haven't tested other Adobe apps yet. I already submitted a bug report, but any fixes or workarounds here would be much appreciated. ... View more

To be more specific, I can't pinch to zoom, do horizontal or vertical scrolling with touchpad.  These things do work with the touch screen however. ... View more

As I understand it, the GPU is in the keyboard base, so when you detatch the screen and go into tablet mode, the Intel takes over.  Does this mean Premiere utilizes the GTX?   There is an option when you right click the program icon to "Run with Graphics Processor" --> "High-Performance NVIDIA processor (default)" or "Integrated graphics". ... View more

Randall, This is all very interesting, confusing and frustrating.  There are so many variable to performance that aren't immediately clear to even experienced users.  I purchased a SB2 and am still deciding if it is worth keeping.  There are problems such as 4k scaling, precision trackpad not working with multitouch gestures, etc.  This one is a new issue for me. How can I test to make sure Premiere is utilizing the GTX and not the integrated Intel? ... View more