Adobe Premiere Pro 13.1.1 Update - Why?

13.1.1 is a bug-fix release, you're right ... for a select group of nasties. That's why it came out as quick, they've been rather open about that. A LOT more than in past years. NAB was last week, and I got to spend some time with some of the engineers both on the floor and elsewhere.

There are a few other bugs that weren't fixed yet, but they had a goodly number of major things that were, Hence it was released. There wasn't any real feature work involved, and in reality about 80% of the bugs were Mac-only ones.

As to 13.1 itself ... it only included a few new things, mostly things that were merely updating or filling out the tool-set for other tools. That's it. Even the vast majority of the work on 13.1 was bug-fixing. They had a huge list of things that were fixed with it ... I don't know how many, but it was pages of scrolling as they showed it to me.

As to what's appearing on this forum ... oh my, go back to the halcyon days of say 2015.0 or 2015.3 ... with releases back then, this forum exploded with new posts, many of them quickly becoming LONG ones, and in general there were complete new pages of posts in an hour or two. This time ... we barely had an uptick in posts. This place is about as quiet as I've seen it in the years I've been around.

Which is not to say there aren't issues. I have several bugs affecting me, though in general I'm still working away. I'd be working happier and faster if they weren't affecting me, and ... I'm happy to remind the engineers constantly about them. They do understand.

There are always discussions about apps in the aisles at NAB ... last year, there were so many discussions about the massive issues with Pr. This year, not nearly as many. Last year, a general item was whether Adobe should give up trying to work with the widest set of codecs/hardware of anyone, and state that "we're building this for this type of hardware and to run best with these formats/codecs; it will be awesome with this, anything else ... your risk".

Basically, with as many formats/codecs that this app works, across as many bits of hardware, it's rather hard to be certain you can test every bloody possibility. I would like it if Adobe corporate upped the budget for the app. It's got a huge user-base, and I think, too small a team for the depth and breadth of the use of the app. I think they just flat out need more bodies.

So ... we need to keep pressure on. Adobe runs by metrics.

This is a user-to-user forum. The bug/features UserVoice forum feeds directly into both the engineer's system and the collated database the upper managers use to determine budgets and engineering time. It changes their best metric to affect budgets.

That's a very good place to post bugs, slow/laggy behavior, nonsensical tools and "commands", anything of irritation. Unfortunately, I don't have the link handy on this laptop or I'd post if for you. It's found of course at the top of the Overview page of this forum, bugs or feature links.

Neil