Premiere Pro 2025 is a buggy mess
Creating a video to advertise a car for sale. Stupidly forgot to obscure the licence plate whilst taking the footage.
But figured it was easy enough (in previous versions) to add a gaussian blur and crop or opacity effect to mask the required area. That bit was easy problem came when I tried to track the mask forward keyframes - it would silently fail everytime with the annoying exclamation mark.
ChatGPT gave me numerous methods to fix this but nothing worked.
So for my final fix I reversed the sequence and tried tracking the mask backwards and it worked everytime.
So I don't know if this is a bug or the new Premiere philosophy;
Broken when stepping forward
Stable when stepping backward
But in all seriousness 2025 is the worst version I've ever used, frequent crashes, hangs, unexpected behaviour, keyboard commands not working, effects not working - it's been genuinely horrible to use.
As soon as this project is finished I will downgrade to 24 and see if thats better!
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