Honest opinion of premiere

@Picheal31395117dtgs 

Thanks for sharing your thoughts.  Professional video post production is definately not something to jump into without some level of training or mentoring.  If a new user skips the Learn button on the Home screen or the Learning Workspace in the application or the Premiere Pro User Guide, it's easy to get lost.

Have you tried Premiere Elements or Premiere Rush?  Those are designed with hobbyists and pro-sumer in mind.

A "reveal sequence" button is an interesting idea for Premiere Pro.  There's already "Search Bin from querry".  If we click that and search for "Sequence", Premiere Pro will quickly present each Sequence in the project.  The user guide provides instructions for this under Premiere Pro User Guide > Workspaces and Workflows > Search assets.  

As R_Neil_Haugen says, we all learn differently and at different paces.

The more complex an application is, the longer the learning curve.   Premiere Pro is a complex application intended for professionals (or serious hobbyists like myself) that choose to have the ability to manually control our workflow, rather than have the workflow control us.

There are many resources for learning Premier Pro, some free, some not:

https://helpx.adobe.com/support/premiere-pro.html

https://www.adobe.com/learn/premiere-pro?locale=en&learnIn=1

https://www.linkedin.com/learning/

Premiere Pro, like Resolve and Avid, was designed and continually updated for professional workflows. Where heavily advanced techniqes are typically presumed to be manually controlled by experienced users.

There are no apologies for it being a densely packed program. I work in both Premiere and Resolve on a daily basis, and find between them, both are dense, but Resolve is much harder for me to navigate. I've got a decade of use of both programs, btw.

And friends think Resolve is the most intuitive app ever made ... which is great for them! I still struggle with things like trying to remember where they hid all the variuos menus and submenus around a "page". It ain't obvious to me. But that's just me.

We're all different. Everyone in the trade does everything differently, and these apps are designed to accomoadate an incredible array of workflows, media, hardware, and export needs. Yea, they're complex and complicated.

Premiere Elements is on the other hand, a decent video editing app, designed to automate many things to make it easier to get "lighter" stuff done. Especially by those with less experience.

Btw ... the manual for BlackMagic's Resolve app is over 3,000 pages. There's a ton of stuff about these programs, no one masters every part of any of them.