Why is premiere 2020 so terrible? Laggy? and Bad?

All of these apps are tools, that's all. Just fancy hammers.

All of them are designed by normal people, and therefore are different as the groups that designed them naturally make different bits to put together.

So use whichever one fits your hands. I've looked at FCP and ... huh. Not attractive to me. Rather more limited in some ways also to my needs.

Same with Resolve, which I do work with regularly. I don't like the UI very much, and I do NOT like the way Resolve is locked-down and the user can't make their own workspaces nor modifify the mappings of any tools like control surfaces. That's all controlled tightly by the BM staff.

But I need to be familiar enough with Resolve to teach Resolve users how to work in PrPro. And there are some color things that are easy to do in a designed-for-color app like Resolve, and not so easy in Premiere.

Some good friends though love the Resolve UI ... so yes, that's the one they use. It's the one they should use. It fits them to a T.

Each user should understand a basic fact of life: we are all by nature unique, ain't no one just like us, and our personal preferences are not necessarily aligned with any other particular human on the planet.

Fancy hammers. If you feel more comfortable or productive with FCP, go for it. And enjoy working over there. Just understand that is partly because of being 'you', not necessarily a statement on the overall quality/usability of either app.

Neil

I understand the feeling ... I don't know how many computers I've been through over the last 30+ years. At least a new one every 3-4 years. At first, just for "business" things, then around 1994 we started using scanners and computers for copy/restoration of old images ... and in around 2001 started our first digital captures.

For the last three years plus I've been on an Intel 6 core/12-thread CPU at 3.2Ghz, 32GB/RAM, and GTX1060 GPU. It's been pretty good for most of that time. But Pr2020 is more demanding of hardware than Pr2019, which needed more than Pr2018.

I use primarily Premiere Pro, but also Resolve, Ae, and Audition. I've got the full Red Giant universe, and do use their plugins quite a bit, along with the Autokroma BRAW plugin. On intraframe media like BRAW, ProRes, Cineform, and DNxHD/R, my current 6-core rig is a bit slow at times but workable. Many sequences have no troubles in playback at full.

With Pr 2020, long-GOP (H.264) media is not so good. Often stutters a bit. I don't have any crashing issues though. I don't get any better playback performance in Resolve than Premiere, though I know some apparently do. I've got Resolve Studio, the paid version.

Sorry to say, but a 6-core rig with 32 GB of RAM, and an 8GB GPU was a pretty decent rig two years ago. As was mine. The software and hardware keep changing though. As the coding is brought up to date, and built for better work with the large-K RED, Arri, and Sony media along with new gear like the new Nvidia and AMD GPUs, they're not going to be working on making it fly on older kit. And as I've done so many times before, I had to bite the bullet and get a new rig.

My new rig comes in today from Puget (according to tracking). I'll be going from a three year old 6core/32GB-RAM/1060 desktop to a 24 core Ryzen, 128GB/RAM, 2080Ti.

I'm looking forward to the new rig. The benchmarks that Puget tested it with for say Neat video noise reduction are wondrous. I'm not looking forward to the day of setting it up & moving things over. Sigh. But every 3-4 years, that's been Life for us since our shop first went into computers many years ago. Long before we were working images on computers.

Neil