Dude, wow ... if someone disagrees with you they're confused? Or ... they don't care!!!!
Right. Whatever.
You seem totally focused on your issues, and those of a certain subset of Premiere users, and conflating those to most users. Factually wrong, but ... that's your opinion. And this is something worth discussing, because yes, there are other users that feel as you do. This might be educational if people can get past their emotions.
You are most welcome to your opinion. Just please realize it's your opinion. And others will always differ.
I just got off the LGG and BlackMagic forums, both with complaints about the RED, Sony OXcn formats and others that won't work well on most of the M1 .... and were compared at times to Premiere doing better on their systems. Far better numbers on ancient Macs and PCs than M1s for some actions in Resolve.
Against really fantastic numbers for say ProRes for the M1s. The conclusions were for certain media/workflows, older Macs and Premiere beat M1 performance compared to Resolve.
Some of the M1 issues with certain media are also the same in Premiere, because of the way the hardware and software instructions at this time interact with certain media. I expect that will get sorted at some point. Those issues are totally a Mac issue, and neither Adobe nor BlackMagic to "blame" for them.
Which is back to my overall point: these are fancy hammers, that's all. Period. End your useless angst, and use whichever tool works for you, your gear, your media, your needs. They are just TOOLS.
For example: Jim Simon was a long time user and major contributor here for many years. Very, very helpful to me when I started out, and yes, his replies were blunt and highly opinionated. But then, he got a lot of work out of Premiere when others struggled through some releases with horrible issues.
Your comments that Premiere "used to be" totally stable ... well, using it since CS6, I can't think of when that time would be, personally. There's always been some issues. Hitting more or less users of course.
And Jim's blunt short comments and workflow dicta got me working when I was totally hammered with a number of things.
But at some point, Resolve became a better tool for him than Premiere. So he went with Resolve ... great! I see his responses all the time on the Resolve forum, and ... he's still the same old blunt opinionated guy. Look at his comments, take what's useful for you, and please ... just leave your emotions on the counter.
But Resolve is working very well for him. And that's a good thing. Most awesome.
I have my complaints about both Premiere and Resolve, as so often noted. There are things that I would dearly love to have the Adobe developers do, BUT ... from the numbers, the M&E types (again, Marketing & Experience) feel those issues aren't a major issue with the majority of their users, and they clearly rank some of my ideas and concerns low.
And the M&E people are up above the "mere" product teams people in the Adobe heirarchy.
Does that mean "they don't care about my precious app!!!!!!"
Oh for Heaven's sake, no. Jeepers.
Does that mean they don't care about the users? For freaking Hades, leave the emotions out of it.
It means this, and only this: they disagree based on their numbers. Concerning the usage they see of the apps, overall, across the user base, for those things that I want.
Period. That's all.
(Humans disagree ... oh Heavens ... NOOOOOO!!!!! .... or ... what the heck do you expect?)
So I will try to get the devs at NAB to see what I want ... many of them actually agree with most of what I'd like changed ... but the problem for my wishes really isn't the devs. It is getting the M&E people to see the same thing. It's simply difficult for one user to change their opinion based on what their numbers tell them.
I've dealt with both the devs and a fair number of M&E types from Adobe in person. Perhaps you haven't. Because of that direct, personal interaction, they're people to me. Some of which I very, very strongly disagree with. And some well ... I wonder about. (Are they actually people or ... Commander Data? ... is Adobe more advanced technically than we even dream of? ... lol)
But I'm not going to make stupid or ignorant claims about them either. I have my opinions. They have theirs. They run the company.
And every team member I've ever met for any of the Adobe apps ... from Illustrator through Animator through Premiere and the other video apps ... care deeply about "their" program. Whether or not we agree on anything, that much is clear. All of them are daily users of the apps they work on. Because they are passionate about that thing "their" app does.
But the devs do not live and work in a vaccum. They're in a massive system, with many bosses above them. And of course, do as the company lays out. Based mostly on the M&E people's take on ... metrics.
I'm sure the M&E people feel they care just as passionately about this stuff as any of us. I still, personally, find them ... well, interesting to study. Observe. They are very highly if perhaps narrowly trained. Focused.
And different from me, which is only to say therefore, clearly human. We all disagree. On nearly everything, when you get down to it. It's what we do best as humans. And that's also a Good Thing to me.
Neil
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