I’m DONE.
I have been using adobe products and premiere for over 10 years professionally, and almost 20 years now in general. but the level of dysfunctionality with this crumbling software has finally reached its peak as i'm concerned.
Premiere has always had its issues, but trying to edit this short film since january 2022 has been the absolute biggest nightmare imaginable. I have wasted hours upon hours trouble shooting issues that bring my day to a hault- from bad design/UI decisions to absurd bugs that have useless work arounds (disable gpu acceleration on my brand new custom editing pc is no kind of solution) - I must spend 60-70 percent of my time pulling my hair out in frustration and this is not an exaggeration.
I am blown away but how terrible this software has become and at this point I feel like I deserve my money back because Premiere "pro" is LITERALLY unusable garbage.
For what it's worth I'm using a PC with a ryzen threadripper 3960 with 128 GB ram and an RTX 3090. There is simply NO excuse for what I have been encountering on a daily basis, causing my project to take months longer than it should have to complete and causing me immense frustration and stress. There hasn't been a shred of enjoyment through what was once my passion thanks to this situation.
Crashing on rendering despite days of work arounds. Cursors disappearing for no reason. Audio dropping out randomly. red giant plug ins working 40% of the time or else causing even more issues. Slow as hell playback despite 1080 proxies of all my footage AND set to 1/8th playback quality. I could go on and on and on...
Perhaps this is more of a rant than anything- but I have to blow off steam in a way that doesn't result in a broken monitor. Adobe- I thought illustrator was your worst program, but with premiere over the last decade you have lowered that bar to the center of the earth and pole vaulted over it.
I will NEVER use premiere again. - that is, of course, if i can ever get premiere to work long enough to finish this last project. As a loyal customer for my entire career, I am so, so disappointed.
My only advice on the way out the door is to demolish this abomination and rebuild it from the ground up. Because it's only getting less stable with each update.
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