Premiere Pro 2024 is Glitchy!

Report · Oct 17, 2023

I'm finding it hard to work smoothly in this version. Already started a project, so can't go back to previous version! Can't drag and drop assests on to timeline easily (takes several tries), can't drop transitions onto timeline (takes several tries), music is glitchy (I deleted and reinstalled only to realize this is how it's working in this version so far). The glitchiness goes away in an exported file.

Report · Dec 10, 2023

Yes, its quite old 🙂 However it did perform well with 2020 (I said 2021 in the first post but it was actually 2020) in 4K with a bunch of effects. What puzzles me is that in the newer versions even proxies are lagging. And the keyframe issue shouldn't have much to do with that. Is there a way to downgrade to 2020? In CC available older versions reach down only to 2023.

Report · Jan 20, 2024

There is no solution. It's a problem with the way the software handles video editing, bloat and the underlying code. I recommend trying Davinci Resolve Studio.

Report · Jan 20, 2024

Ivan, computer things always migrate forward. It's an incrediblly annoying fact of Life. I don't know how many computers we've used in our business since 1987, but it's been a lot. We have now only two "main' computers, one for the wife's pro stills, a beast for my pro video work.

I replaced my previous beast at four years old a year and a half ago. It's now my backup to my main rig, and has clear back to the original CC versions on it. The missus is now due for an update to her rig, for Photoshop and sales/bookkeeping apps use. That's ... what we all go through.

Each version of any major software wll leave some older hardware and code behind. I've SO many floppies of apps that aren't even an app any more. Want an early copy of dBase? Cost me something like $600 back in the early 90's. Dead now, long dead. I've got many other then-"pro" apps in a box for funsies.

For Hugo ... you think Resolve works good on outdated hardware? Really? I work for/with/teach pro colorists, mostly based in Resolve, and they consider anything under 64GB of RAM and with less than 12GB of vRAM to be essentially useless.

Premiere and Resolve both run well on my desktop, and I use both daily. I'm on the BM forums and LGG also, of course.

But on my once-hot 4 year old Acer laptop, Premiere 24 runs great. Resolve 18 is such a dog on that rig i uninstalled it.

Report · Mar 14, 2024

I AGREE FULLY! So frustrating that this happens every damn time! I have been in the middle of two commercials and had to up version when moving studios and suddenly I can NOT even lasso grab my keyframes anymore! I do a lot of offline comps in my jobs and it is ESSENTIAL for me to be able to do this. Now I have to manually click every darn keyframe and it jumps out of place when selected. Not to mention the render issues on a simple blur and swipe transitions. The fact that when I have to do socials and make a nest, it crops the edges of an image and then have to jump back to a 16x9 timeline do the nest then copy it back into a 9x16 timeline in order to pan and scan properly, is dumb. Literally nothing improved of any kind in the new version. Also when exporting, making a new folder for new versions it constantly jumps to the previous folder and always have to manually select back to the new folder, and then on the next round it suddenly remembers where I had exported to but by then its too late. Literally also have not seen automatic tracking added which even the old stone age Avid has had for a decade! We still have to track manually??? And no! I dont want to jump to After effects. Its a stupid basic tool. I wish they could stop focussing on AI editing, which sucks any way and focus on developing AI that can actually help the back end of the editors, such as arranging bins and timelines, managing selects, and exports... But we see none of those improvements, just focussed on trying to make an editor, which is pushing it's main user out of the workspace. Long rant, but my gods! You can't go backwards like this on a new version. What is the point of the new version anyway? Havent seen any new features which warranted this level of frustration??

Report · Mar 14, 2024

Some things are a pain.

But ... I've been using the track forward/back on a lot of the effects in Premiere for over a decade now. No clue why you think that one isn't available.

And the edit by text is pretty much a HUGE part of my working anymore. That's a 'new' feature certainly. As is the ability to finally set a fair number of color management things to user tastes.