Version 24 Premiere lumetri bug / crashes

Question

First of all I have to let this out because I am actually really pissed now.

There are ways that Adobe s**** big time and this is one.

Every time there is a new version of Premiere out it is ridden with problems and often these are huge ones. Just like this time, once again.

So the situation is that new version has at least two serious issues:

1. It generates thumbnails EXTREMELY slowly in project panel or not at all. Just try editing project with many clips like that.

2. The new timeline is faster... but it also crashes with lumetri quite often.

Because of these bugs I cannot now edit my project. Only way to do it would be to go back to old version. Which I luckyly have on another machine (that cannot be updated to newest version due to HW restriction).

Ok so when I try to open the project with old version we all know what happens don.t we!

And this is something Adobe has done deliberately just to f*** with us. There is no valid good reason not to allow project to be opened with old version. There could easily be warnigns that not everything might work, but prevent it alltogether, especially now that the new version cannot be installed on all machines due to it needing the latest CPUs.

Or at least give us an option to save in legacy version compatible version... why not?

R Neil Haugen · Answer

There have been many threads over the years on how to 'revert' a project to an older version. From doing an XML or EDL out, to actually modifying the project file header. So yea, it can be done, many users have done this.

As to the modding the project file header ... project files are kinda a zipped XML file.

So some third-party unzipping actions can "unzip" a .prproj file, and then when opened in a XML or text editor, you can actually read the project file.

There's a place about three-four lines in where they have a version number. You change that, save/zip ... and then you can open in the earlier version.

I've not needed to do this in several years so I don't remember the exact steps. But it's findable online easily enough, both text on doing it, and also YouTube/Vimeos.

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