Adobe - hear me out. I am a professional editor, have worked at several large-scale tech companies, all in a post-production capacity, and now independently. I have a brand new 2017 iMac Pro, 10 cores, 64GB RAM, and the Vega 64 graphics card. It's a dream machine, capable of anything at enormously high speeds. Except Premiere. I started work on a large project two days ago. Media Pending. Then I bought a G-Tech 8TB RAID with thunderbolt 3, RAID 0 configuration for performance. Media Pending. Crashes. Then I converted all of the Canon footage into ProRes. Media Pending. Crashes. Then I cleared cache, reset preferences, uninstalled Premiere, reinstalled it, called customer support, had them control my computer, try every permissions trick possible. Media Pending. Then I dragged my old project into a new project. Media Pending. Crashed. I lost two days of work on a tight deadline because Adobe can't figure out how to optimize for Mac.
Today I made the leap and switched to FCPX. Loaded all media instantly. Scrubs lightning fast. Never crashes. I was editing immediately.
As an editor, I don't want software to get in the way of my creativity. That's why I don't use Windows. I use Mac. My single and entire focus is to tell stories, and if something as trivial as avoidable software issues stands in that way of that, we have a problem. For years I have used Adobe products because they provided me with that benefit. Over the last few years though - and the final straw was this week - I am leaving Premiere behind. I didn't pay $7000 for a an editing computer, $400 a year for Adobe, $600 for a top of the line RAID, so that I could waste time not editing and stressing about delivering to my client on time. Because of Premiere.
You might say "It may be something else, not the software." FCPX (and Resolve, for that matter) work completely fine. It's Premiere. Everyone knows it's buggy, but at this point the community is so invested in it that very few people are willing to give it up.
My solid advice? If you are being paid to edit, $300 is nothing to learn a new program and avoid the negligence that Adobe has bestowed upon its Mac users. I'm sorry if I sound indignant or whiny, but clearly anyone who's landed in this thread can imagine the predicament I found myself in: Spend days (time, money) playing a guessing game to try and possible solve a massive issue, or invest in something that just works.
Option B. Bye Adobe.
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