Highly disappointed having Premiere CC 2018...any help out there?

I installed the Premiere Pro CC 2017 version and it seems to be quite faster than the present one and the issues that I have stated is non existent as of now when I tested those. Do we need to expect more problems in the newer versions of the software from now on and settle with older ones as they say 'Old is Gold'? It seems to be. I still hold dear the Premier Pro CS6 even today for its stability and ease...I was forced to migrate to the latest ones just for the Lumetrie Colour tools and the masking options which are unavailable in CS6 build.

My only sorrow is that I have already started off few projects in the 2018 version and am in midway, and now unable to bring down those projects to 2017 version. Downward compatibility should be somehow incorporated by Adobe as it helps a lot when we have such issues. As the primary tools are more less the same in the lower versions, there should be no issues in opening projects of higher versions to the lower versions. Hope Adobe is hearing this.

Santhosh,

Hopefully you’ll get your system performance issues resolved and your installation of Premiere Pro will work more as you expect.  If not, I’ve listed a few alternatives to Premiere Pro below (you may already be familiar with them).

• Avid Media Composer First (Free, simplified version of Media Composer)
• Avid Media Composer, $50/month
• Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve, Free
• Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve Studio, $300
• Magix Vegas Pro Edit or Vegas Pro Studio (formerly published by Sony)

Most of these can be run side-by-side with Premiere Pro.

-Warren

Having the source footage on the C drive shouldn’t cause as much of a slow down as Santhosh is describing unless it’s a slow standard hard drive that’s near capacity.  From what he’s described, the C drive probably has more than enough sustained bandwidht for 1920x1080 editing.

Santhosh, I would try the following (in this order):

Make sure that your Premiere Pro is up-to-date via the Creative Cloud Desktop appliciation.

What video format are you editing?  If it’s MP4, try transcoding to a mezzanine CODEC that’s meant for editing.  GoPro Cineform .mov files at quality 3 or 4 is a good choice.

Some users have reported Premiere Pro CC 2018 performing much slower than Premiere Pro CC 2017 on the same computer.  Check for “previous versions” in the Creative Cloud Desktop application.  If PR CC 2017 is available, try installing it as well.  With a previous version and current version installed, you can determine if your configuration is affected.

To get back to the hard drive being used, it certainly won’t hurt to migrate the source footage to another drive.  An internal SSD or external SSD via a fast protocol (USB3 or better) is ideal.

—Warren

This very much be a major part of the problems that you’re having. You should have your videos on a fast second drive and not the primary drive. An external drive would be fine.

Are your videos on a second physical hard drive? What is the resolution of the videos that you are working with?