I Abandoned Premiere Pro 2025 and Beta Today

[astonished_customer7329]

Need to rant—I have been trying to make Adobe Premiere 2025 and Beta work for me ever since it was released, but after constant freezes, crashes, and incredibly slow processing times (waveform generation, etc), I've decided I'm done. I'm going to complete my current projects with Adobe Premiere 2024 because at least that was sort of stable, and then I am going to research viable alternatives to this awful program. I'll struggle through the frame recursion errors that Premiere throws out with MXF files that has been a problem for the past three iterations of Premiere at least, but at least the program won't be constantly crashing, freezing, or slowing things down. I tried proxying my MXFs last night, and Media Encoder Beta would terminate the encode with a Fail message whenever it would hit a frame recurrsion error. I had to use Media Encoder 2024 to get the job done.

I know my computer is getting out of date (it was a top of the line 2019 Intel Macbook Pro), but the fact that I can just jump back to previous versions and immediately have improved stability is enough evidence that I need that the product is bad and getting worse.

[jamieclarke]

Hi @astonished_customer7329 -  I’m sorry to hear you’re running into freezes and crashes that definitely shouldn’t be happening.  Could you share a bit more about your system setup?  Just so you know, frame recursion errors were fixed in version 25.0 and later.

Do you have any third-party plugins or panels installed?
Have you noticed any particular steps that tend to lead to the crashes?
Are you receiving a crash report?

Any details you can provide will really help us narrow this down and get you back on track.

[astonished_customer7329]

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-bugs/premiere-pro-2025-freezes-and-crashes-on-macos/idc-...

This thread describes my issues with Adobe Premiere Pro 2025. Hard crashes. No real indicator as to when or how, but entire computer-level freeze ups requiring hard power offs and reboots. Absolutely workflow shattering and has been happening since 2025 was released. After media cache clearing. After full uninstall and reinstall. Etc. No crash logs are generated. Spinning wheel leading to an entire OS level freeze.

When I use Beta, the program no longer crashes. I started this current project in Adobe Premiere Pro 2025 Beta (25.6) and was receiving more Frame Recursion Attempt errors with Canon C70 MXF files than I'd ever received in my history of using the program. Constant frame recursion errors. In 2024, I've received about 20 errors for about 400GB of footage, and it's holding stable. Waveform generation was also taking multitudes longer than it has taken in Premiere 2024.

I'm nearly two days behind my intended editing schedule because I've been trying to suffer through Premiere 2025's bugs, and I just don't have the patience anymore.

[jamieclarke]

Hi @astonished_customer7329 - Can you open Premiere Pro beta and navigate to the help menu, at the bottom you will see "Licensing Diagnostics". Can you take a screenshot and email it to jamiec@adobe.com 

Where is your footage stored is it on your internal hard drive or external?

[astonished_customer7329]

I just sent it over. Thanks.

[jamieclarke]

Thank you @astonished_customer7329 - Where is your footage stored is it on your internal hard drive or external?

[astonished_customer7329]

External drive.