Premiere not suitable for professional long form work

[timv66216455]

I'm posting here as a warning against anyone starting a long form project on premiere.

Premiere is not reliable enough for professional work.

I have used Premiere on two features because of its After Effects integration.

I used it on a feature in 2013 and ended up having to change over to Avid.

I have used it this year on another feature because I was under the impression that it had improved.

Premiere cannot deal with long projects with a large number of clips. It constantly slows down to a halt.

Saves take about 10 mins per save and afterwards sometimes the mouse cursor disappears requiring a program restart - which again takes about 5-10 mins.

The interface is jerky and not smooth, file access is slow and unreliable.

There are also random crashes.

Adobe should not be advertising this as a professional product and charging a monthly fee for something so buggy, its like we're demoing their beta software.

People pay me to edit - not to wait around for Premiere to snag and hitch and crash.

Premiere needs a ground up rebuild. I'm moving back to Avid.

This is not a system issue as all other editing / colour / compositing platforms including AE fly on this machine.

[excited_Genie16B8]

I might as well uninstall everything other than Premiere

There's a reason Step 4d exists.  A decade of experience on the forums, and even longer success using the software.

[exile1972]

A decade of experience on the forums, and even longer success using the software.

I too have learned through many years of troubleshooting these silly fickle machines that if problems persist a great way to reboot and reset is to completely wipe clean your OS and start over. Where I might differ from the unofficial guide to troubleshooting though is the notion of using a machine solely as an edit system and keeping all other programs off. For many of us that's just not a practical option. However, with most programs and data now located in the cloud, it's relatively painless to wipe clean and rebuild an OS on a system.

[xssguru]

[MichaelWiller]

I would be the first one to agree with you about Premiere's instability. Ever since 2015.5 it has been HELL...

Until 2017. This version is extremely stable and has brought me back from the brink of despising Premiere. I am sticking with it for a long time, not updating like I did before and screwing myself.

Stick with 2017, you'll be fine.