OPINION: Adobe has rushed to release an unfinished version of Premiere Pro which is full of bugs

Hi broadcast,

I am so sorry for your experience. I can see that you need help. My advice is that if Premiere is failing you the way you are currently working, look into an alternative workflow that will not fail you.

Premiere Pro does not fail on me because my workflow is tested based on my source footage and the system I am using right now. You can use such techniques as creating proxies or transcoding to address any satanic codecs delivered by cameras serving up highly compressed Long GOP H.264/HEVC footage. To me, Long GOP footage, and even worse, Long GOP variable frame rate footage (screen captured footage, gaming, mobile phone video, webcam) is the chief demon that must be slayed for a smooth, reliable, and predictable editing experience. Sometimes you even need Handbrake to bring all that footage into alignment, but it must be dealt with.

Regular system maintenance and adherence to system requirements is also a given.

Please give us any other info which you could provide in order to help you.

Kevin

Over the last couple years, they've dramatically improved the performance/stability for a higher percentage of users. I give them credit for that. This forum is nothing on a new release like it used to be ... holy moly, we'd have ten times the number of posts a day we get now about a release.

Not saying it's perfect, and when you've got something hitting you it's crucial always. And yea, there's a couple pain points for me. But in all, it's working pretty good at the moment on my rig.

 I just wish it was for everyone of course ...

Neil

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I completely agree. It's awful and embarrassing. It is unacceptable. I'm just tired of this! It is simply unprofessional to release such releases.

It's frustrating when one is having issues for sure. At the moment, the vast majority of users are having a pretty 'clean' experience, though some are having annoying to killing issues. If you're in the annoying to killing issues group, it's just pain.

And in the past there were typically ways to puzzle out why one was in which group. Now? I know of people with old kit that are doing fine, and new rigs that are not. And people with new rigs (like mine) that are screaming along.

And of course, most people with older gear, past three years especially, are having trouble with performance and lagging. And then ... someone with a many-core system and ton of RAM also hits lagging.

The variability drives you nuts.

Neil