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September 1, 2025

aDOBE NOW SO BAD WE ARE LOOKING AT CANCELLING AFTER 25 YEARS

  • September 1, 2025
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I own a  a drone business and all of a sudden adobe cannot handle or recognise drone footgae from a DJI Matrice 4 , a Mavic3 or a Minpro 3. When we try and convet using third party softwware ( wasting time) results are very poor and unusable. We have just lost a client thanks to teh problem. What is going on. We have not had issues like this in 25 years of being a professional adobe user. This needs sorting asap or we will move software providers. Our PC is powerful with a good graphics card and 64MB Ram

 

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R Neil Haugen
Legend
September 10, 2025

DJI always pushes the boundaries of what is even "legal" or possible in compression encoding. Every new device they make is farther 'out there' with the most demanding new set of processes possible.

 

So with each new DJI device, the GPU makers, CPU makers, and software companies struggle to mod things to get better performance. I've watched this over the last full decade. Always happens.

 

So if you get 'new' DJI stuff, hasn't been out for a year yet, well ... some of the media might be difficult in many apps. And of course, every bit of hardware and apps will have different timetables for getting the issues solved.

 

 

Everyone's mileage always varies ...
jamieclarke
Community Manager
Community Manager
September 10, 2025

Hi @Image Surveys -  Thanks for submitting your bug report. We need a few more details to try to help with the issue.
Please see, How to Report a Problem.

 

Do you receive an error message when you import the files?

 

Sorry for the frustration.

Participating Frequently
September 1, 2025

I can totally understand your frustration. I don’t work with drones every day, but I’ve had similar problems with certain camera formats suddenly becoming unsupported or buggy after an update. Sometimes the issue was solved by rolling back to a previous version of Premiere, other times I had to transcode everything into a more “standard” format like ProRes before editing, which obviously adds extra steps and wastes time.

It would be great if Adobe could be more transparent about these compatibility changes, especially since professionals rely on stable workflows.