Premiere Pro is the most frustrating tool to use. The panels constantly change or not easily found!

It’s very easy to change versions of Pr especially within a major build series, like the current “shipping” 26.x. And if say 26.3 is buggy on your rig but 26.2 is fine, delete your cache files and go back to 26.2. As an example.

Premiere for the vast majority of users is as stable as most any other increcidbly complex app. I’ve worked in both Pr and Resolve for over a decade, as I (besides my own stuff) work for/with/teach pro colorists. Paid.

Every Resolve based colorist I know, and I know many of the ‘names’ … has a long list of Resolve bugs and “nutso behaviors” they’ve wanted fixed … in some cases back to R6 or earlier … and that still haven’t been fixed. Resolve has a major difference from Premiere though … in that when something goes haywire under the hood, R tends to ignore it and keep working. Hence it doesn’t “crash” as often. 

Which does not mean it hasn’t glitched something in the background you don’t yet know about. Most of the time when this happens there isn’t any notable problem for the user. As with most of the very few crashes I’ve actually had in Pr workings, since 2013, and through various PCs. But it has seemed like R has fewer ‘crash’ instances over the years for many users. Though any more, I’m not sure that’s the case.

As someone on both here and the BM forums daily, buggy reports there have increasded notably with R20, and are higher with R21. I think that’s due to trying to also be a one -system for all users/platforms/media/workflow/effects app.

Are some having a really nasty croup with some build of Pr26.x? Yep, certainly. Most of us aren’t though, and a great frustration for me (as I do love troubleshooting!) is that for most bugs reported, I simply cannot replicate the behavior. If you can’t, then troubleshooting is nearly a theoretical exercise. I used to be able to replicate most bugs happening on PCs … add additional data for the devs to the reports … and often get a workaround posted here for users until the blame thing is fixed.

Now, so many of the bugs are so specific … certain hardware/media/effects or whatever … that most of the time I can’t replicate the problem. I think fewer general bugs is actually a Good Thing but maybe that’s just me.