Adobe Premiere Pro Dropping Frames

It's not a theoretical take on PrPro.

When are you going to get off the kick that EVERYONE has to have exactly the same issue you're having?

Are there issues ... well, of course. Never said otherwise. Is everyone having horrible troubles? Well, actually ... no. Not opinion at all. I'm personally doing ok, and know some others with all kinds of gear who are also doing fine. I know a couple with good gear who are having troubles.

This forum over the years has been a good bell-weather. When there are issues, the daily posting here can sky-rocket. We've had many days where within an hour, there are three to four pages of new posts. Most new releases have been like that. This last release ... nothing like the previous ones. Yea, some issues popped up for sure. But again, compared to past releases, not even in the same ballpark.

Recently we've had days where there are a page and a half of posts ... for a full 24-hour period. That's a dramatic drop in trouble posting here, at the same time the user numbers are up. So that would seem to be solid indication that the percentage having horrible issues ain't that high.

Which, as again I've stated many times, doesn't mean that if you're the one with the screwed up workflow, it's any less painful. Nor does it mean that it's your fault and not Adobe's PrPro program ... some bugs affect only a very small sub-set, and those are typically the nastiest ones to get sorted. Like, duh. And if they can't get it working on your gear, they don't deserve your money.

I've seen way too many folks here and on the hardware forum that have taken steps with gear and had their machine start working as expected to accept the crap that no one can. They do. Not everyone, but the vast majority. Most of the problems posted here over years for performance have been issues entirely predictable given the OP'S gear, media, and workflow. And were solvable by basic knowledge of what just works (as opposed to "this SHOULD work") and trouble-shooting 101.

Setting up a one-drive machine like the original poster has is problematic, and always has been. Just three years ago, for decent processing, we all went for a pretty standard five-internal drive setup. Os/programs; cache; project files; media; previews/exports was a typical setup.

That's now changed ... two good internal SSD's can give nearly the same sustained throughput, especially if the second one is the m.2/Nvme type. Heavily tested for hard data by Bill Gehrke, the tech guru of hard data, and by many other users. Add a third drive for cache/preview files, you've get a setup better than the old 5-drive systems.

There's nothing about that which is opinion, it's data based. And tested across many systems.

What puzzles me is why you are so needing to rant and rant and rant across numerous posts. I understand being ticked royally when an app screws you up. PrPro, SpeedGrade, Me, and AfterEffects have all dumped on me at times too. And yea, I certainly posted the odd rant and complaint. But then went about either fixing the issue or moving on.

Resolve is out there ... the new 15 version is off public beta, you can get it free or (as I have) the "studio" paid version. You're most welcome to use it if it does better for you. If so, cancelling your CC subscription is a great way of participating in the great test that is a free market ... Company X doesn't make a product that works for you, stop buying from them and go with who does. Try Avid. If you're on a Mac, try FCPx ... which has the advantage of being setup for Mac users in a way non-Mac video apps can't do things.

Neil