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Sergio-CS
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July 27, 2023
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Premiere Pro Suggestions to make it the ultimate editing software TLDR

  • July 27, 2023
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Dear Adobe,

I hope this message finds you well and that someone from your team will read and implement these changes as a suggestion from who has used all your software professionally for over three decades and that has been an ACE for at least 2.

I will not bore you with the accolades and awards that I achieved worldwide, whether in photography, cinematography, and editing, but I must bring these points to the public and your attention.

 

Like many colleagues on this forum that are definitely better than me, I believe we can all agree on these points that Adobe "should" be focusing its attention.

 

  1.  As much as I understand the appeal of AI and the appeal of small social media content creators as they are the masses that make your wallet rumble, they are not your best and most loyal users. Their content can be edited with anything and they are not interested in keeping Adobe as their only software house. They will move to any other free software in a blink of an eye compared to professionals that stick to a software for a lifetime! And are willing to pay for it! So please let's all get our priorities straight. What are your next steps?

  2.  Premiere Pro is a "video software," so if it does not play smoothly the footage to edit, its existence makes no sense...Same clips, same computer, same everything...Premiere plays poorly while others play smoothly and scrubbing, cutting, coloring, fading, sound engineering, and exporting, are a pleasure to go through. (Note: let's not blame the computer please as it only has installed Premiere Pro and i9 Intel; 128 Gb Ram; RTX4090, and again all other software play the same footage smoothly) so what are we planning to do about this?

  3.  Color Grading. Maybe 10 years ago the "lumetri" was a good idea...after discontinuing "speedgrade" we all thought that this was going to be a good idea and get something better...and here another massive failure from Adobe, because Lumetri is nothing more than "Paint" to "Photoshop", "Canva" to "illustrator", so when can we expect a professional color grading interface and better capabilities?

  4. Sound...how is it that we have 5.1 capabilities right into Premiere Pro, yet we need to go to Audition? Why do all those "powerful capabilities" live in Premiere Pro, yet the bug that the Center Channel does not export from Premiere when working on DD 5.1 sound... Are we all aware that there are better and more complex scenarios than the "stereo"? When can we expect to have a professional audio interface that can EXPORT center channels and not have to bounce back and forth between software, and in particular when working on a massive video production with over 200 hours of footage from 5 cameras?

  5.  CPU, RAM, and GPU Why, WHY WHY...do we continue to purchase incredibly expensive hardware when the obsolete engine that Premiere Pro has NEVER uses its power? In all cases, the playback is poor (see point 2); the export is slow; the effects are old and obsolete, and God forbid you have a healing spot and some noise effects on a clip; this means you are doomed. God forbid you have a timelapse nested; never have an image or some footage that is not 100% set to scale, because in all these cases and more, you are best to take a vacation after you click the export button.

 

I can continue forever, but we all know that there are massive problems in the house of Adobe, and things need to change before bleeding users left, right, center, and LFE (did you get it? clever! ...no!?)...We also all know what other software is available out there that has been killing it at a fraction of the cost...so What are we going to do about it? Because the frustration is real! The problems are real! The deadlines are always too close! And we must be heard because we pay thousands of dollars for something that is not worth it anymore. 

 

Suggestion Time:

It's okay to focus on entry-level users that, in a blink of an eye, will leave for the next best (cheap) thing...but let's truly connect with professionals in the filming industry, in the photography industry, even though they might not have millions of followers, Yet they are the ones that produce the best advertising, feature films, magazines, websites, logos, that are out there.

 

Hopefully, one person will resonate.

 

 

 

Another example of what I'm talking about introducing and discontinuing products...it seems that at the top of Adobe there are too many people that don't have a clue of what they are doing:

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Dear Creative Cloud Administrator,

We are notifying you of an upcoming change to Creative Cloud: Adobe is modernizing the Creative Cloud storage experience and will begin discontinuing Creative Cloud Synced files for business customers under Creative Cloud for Teams and Creative Cloud for Enterprise plans. If your users don't use Creative Cloud Synced Files, it won't affect them. If they do, here's how they might be impacted:

Starting February 1, 2024

Users will no longer be able to share files or folders from Creative Cloud Synced files with new users outside of your organization, sharing will continue to work within your organization until October 1st.

Starting October 1, 2024

We will begin discontinuing the Creative Cloud content synchronization process as well as synced file and folder sharing, and permanently remove the cloud-based copies of files for users. We will begin discontinuing Creative Cloud Synced files for business customers. Assets in the local Creative Cloud Files folder on user devices will no longer be synchronized with Creative Cloud storage. User files will remain in their local Creative Cloud Files folder. Folders and assets previously shared from Creative Cloud Synced files will no longer be accessible to others including inside your organization as well as externally.

Note that users may not see these changes right away as we roll out the process gradually.

Recommended actions:

It is recommended that you inform the users in your organization about this upcoming change. In addition, make sure that your organization's assets are safely backed up either locally or through a third-party cloud storage provider. Adobe will not be sending out notifications regarding this change directly to your organization's users.

Adobe’s Customer Support organization is available to answer any questions. Please contact them here.

Regards,

Adobe Creative Cloud Team