As an Assistant Editor, I would LOVE if Adobe would provide some tools to help Assistant Editors, including "dumb" A.I. that would automate repetitive tasks that humans are bad at but computers are great at, things Assistant Editors have to do all the time and have to triple check our work to make sure we didn't make mistakes, but a computer could do in minutes, error free. I put an asterisk in front of ones I think are higher priority:   * Greatly improve AAF turnovers to sound vendors. I've heard many sound vendors complain mightily about turnovers they receive from Premiere projects.   * Batch renaming: ex. Find and Replace, as well as adding prefixes or suffixes, to clip names as a batch. Currently, I have to run a 3rd party program (Keyboard Maestro) to do this.   * It'd be great if the A.I. could "learn" a process I need to repeat over and over by watching me do it several times, then repeating it. At the simplest level, I guess this would be recording a macro. It'd be interesting if it could go a little bit beyond that, i.e. learning exceptions: rename the suffix on a clip name to .R3D, but only if it's a video file.   * "Auto sequence": lay out clips with timecode in a sequence so each clip is placed where its timecode starts. Ex. A clip whose start timecode is 18:05:00:06 will be placed so the head of the clip is at 18:05:00:06 in the sequence. This makes it easy to build a sync map when syncing by other methods isn't working well.   * More distinguishable label colors with simpler names. The label colors in PP 2025 are pleasing to the eye in their subtlety; but what I need are colors that are clearly distinguishable, so I can easily identify, "Oh, this is a sound FX clip; this is an archival clip; this is a subtitle clip." The current colors are so subtle that some of them look almost the same. Also, there are many that are red-ish, which aren't very useful because I want to avoid red so it's easier to identify offline media. And the names are a nightmare. They're beautiful, but it's difficult for a human being to remember, "archival is Caribbean, music is Cerulean."   - Consolidate Duplicates for selected clips rather than the whole project, and Consolidate Duplicates without causing source clips to disappear. I LOVE Consolidate Duplicates, but it sometimes makes source clips disappear, so that "Find in Project", which is essential for Assistant Editors, is no longer avaiable. Closing and reopening the project, or Exporting the sequences as a Premiere Project, sometimes restores disappeared source clips into a "Recovered Clips" bin, and I can be manually put those clips back in the correct bins. It'd be great if Premiere could put them back in the correct bins for me, maybe by searching the project for a source clip with the same name, moving the Recovered Clip into that bin, then Consolidate that Duplicate?   - Rename to match source file name for selected clips: I'm on a project where I'd had to rename thousands of source media files, then rename all the source clips in Premiere to match those names. The "Replace" function does the same thing; but it seems like Premiere could do it for me, since it knows the name of the source media file it's connected to. I'm also hesitant to use "Replace" since Premiere will allow me to replace the source media file with ANYTHING. Since humans make mistakes, especially with repetitive tasks, it's too easy to replace it with the wrong file. Then, it's very difficult to identify the file the clip should be linked to because all the clues (source clip name, source file name, source file path, duration, etc.) have been replaced (you have to open an autosaved version of the project).   - It'd be good if "Replace File" had an alternate version of the command (like "Replace with file with same [duration]" or something) that did some kind of fail-safe check (like checking if the file it's replacing with has the same duration, starts on the same timecode, has the same Tape Name, or something) to prevent replacing with a completely inappropriate file.   - Reorganize selected clips based on source file path: This may not be a feature anyone else needs, but if it is, it'd be a way to reorganize a project that's turned into a chaotic mess. I'm on a project where I'm doing this manually and it's taking me weeks. A computer could probably do it in minutes.   I would find these tools extremely helpful, right away, far more than the really complex A.I. tasks Adobe has been working on. The "A.I." ones probably aren't really even A.I., just basic computing. It'd be great if Adobe had a panel of working Assistant Editors it would consult annually to see what simple tools would make Premiere an even more useful and desirable alternative to Avid in scripted TV and film environments. Right now, the consensus among my colleagues is that Premiere is good for short-form, lower budget jobs, but is severely lacking for high-end scripted work. ... View more

Note: I clicked on the option to Repair the Creative Cloud desktop app, which uninstalled all my Adobe apps (Premiere, etc.). Since the CC desktop app isn't working, I can't reinstall Premiere, etc. I'm unable to do any work until I get this fixed.   P.S. I installed a Beta version of Premiere, 23.5.0 BETA (Build 37), before these issues occurred; so I can use that version until this gets resolved. However, I still have no Acrobat, Photoshop, Acrobat, etc.   I have a 2023 MacBook Pro M2, OS 13.3.1 (a). When I try to launch the Creative Cloud desktop app, the wheel spins for about 5 minutes, then comes to a Repair screen: I tried the steps on the page below, but none worked: https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/creative-cloud-missing-damaged.html   Is this a compatibility bug with Mac OS 13.3.1 or 13.3.1 (a)? The CC desktop app was working about e days ago when I was on an earlier version OS 13; but it stopped working yesterday when I updated the OS. ... View more