Premiere Pro CC 2018 Update or No?

I would suggest that you DONT do an update, I did and it totally messed me up, I haven't been able to video edit for the last 2 weeks and I haven't been more frustrated ever!

before I did the update I had 12.0.1 and everything was perfect with no problems what so every smooth as butter, but then when I did the update all of a sudden with ZERO changes to audio or anything the same files I had saved get get audio cut out, and not as in there is no existing audio in the master sequence, but as in its there but I cant hear anything, it will be playing just fine and the a few seconds it the audio cuts out while I'm watching the playback. that also happens with the videos that are on any other panel.

apparently there have been many people struggling with this issue after the update.

I jumped on tech support chat and they were able to remotely install the older version 12.0 they mentioned that this was a issue that was also present in the new updated Adobe that hasn't been fixed.

oddly enough after installing the old version, now the same issue persists and I cant for the life of me get rid of that problem.

I am a small time youtube creator but its so frustrating to be paying top dollar for a program that you CANT use because of something wrong on their end.

so for now, DO NOT download the update if you have 12.0 and its working perfectly, keep it that way, you'll save yourself HOURS of stress and headache.

Absolutely not! Biggest mistake.. I have been encountering news bugs almost everyday to a point where I thinking to export my project files an xml file to open it in a legacy version... :/

No. Way too buggy. Been tempted to switch back to Avid after this.

If you are in the middle of something never do this ever. (Something will go wrong 100%)

If you're not, try it out on something small and meaningless.

I was working on a project for several months, had to reinstall windows, forcing me to reinstall PPCC, but couldn't go back to 2017 properly because of a "Dolby Codec issue".

Now 2018 has not run for longer than 9mins, I haven't gotten any significant progress in the project since I've been in 2018, it hurts muh soul.

Adobe tech was no help for hours.

My project won't even let me switch windows to another program without freezing.

On top of that there is a known memory leak that'll burn through your RAM (32gb) in a hot second, causing your PC to ultimately crash if unchecked.

Not happy about upgrade.

As mentioned before - multi project environment is confusing, destroyed project because of it.

Windows and navigation (including cursor) disappear after you switch view mode.

Using it on Windows 8.1 , Xeon Processor, 64 GB RAM, Quadro M4000 card

Are crashes experienced in this thread occurring when trimming or editing clips in the timeline?

I'm having a big problem! Every time I go to click on the different tabs at the top, like Effects, Assembly, Editing, and so on. As soon as I click on a different tab then what I was on when I opened the project...it goes right to a blank screen. I've even tried going to workspaces and clicking on the one I want from that way, but it still crashes! I'm using a MacBook Pro 15, 16G Ram. I've been searching for answers online everywhere! Does anyone have any answers? If not I think I might have to ride this wave out until the next update.

Hiya, had all the same probs after installing APPCC2018 and rendering the exact same projects that were simple animations of sizes 9600x48px / 1024x768px / 1112x48px went from about 20sec. to something like +20min.

Always with max rendering and all the bell and whistles in both scenarios and output to H264/MP4 and Animation/MOV codec/formats.

Really simple still image animations and a handful of dissolve transitions between the images and some text.

Made some changes in the Sequence Settings / Preview - think I went from I-Frames to QT and matched the px size and it helped just a little bit.

After spending hours upon hours of trying to troubleshoot the relased 2018 BETA! -I gave up and re-installed the APPCC2017 version again and finished up my projects as smooth as usual in the 20sec. range of rendering and exporting.

Well could´nt at first because I saved the files (overwrited) in 2018, but found some usable files in the "Adobe Premiere Pro Auto-Save" folder that only needed the final tweaks re-do, re-done, re-did it... So do NOT save/overwrite your 2017 files from the 2018 version.

Probbly should have put all the .prproj files in a folder named 2017 and copied it and re-naming to 2018 before working from the 2018 version, but never imagined that upgrading to the newest and latest could be such a grueling and timeconsuming experience... and FRUSTRATING!

BUT HERES THE THING! After finishing up in 2017 I went OCD and wanted to compare settings  between 2017 and 2018 version, but after installing the 2017 and re-opening projects in the 2018 build it was back to normal and handled the very same "problematic" tasks with ease.

So maybe it is not due to bugs and program error as such, but more an issue of missing drivers or small fiddely files lurking around and/or missing somewhere in hidden subfolders and root directories?

Anyways I am just a happy user (when it works in drag and drop style I´m all good) and far far away from understanding programming, coding and tekky stuff, but now both are working and I will keep the 2017 version installed just in case and then keep on working (and beta testing) the 2018.

Hope this will help some of you guys out as well.

BTW I am on a MacBook Pro 15" retina of late 2012 running High Sierra (yes I also updated my OS to HS in the troubleshooting process due to the announced video enhancements, but it did not fix the rendering and exporting issues of the 2018 build).

Bstrgds

Christian

12.0.0 Is the worst! Upgraded last night, using macbook pro late 2015 2,5 GHz Intel Core i7 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

It freezes every session. Can not work more than 8-10 minutes. Ca n not even downgrade to last edition. And i have to pay for this ****?

So disapointed

I would hold off until the bugs are sorted out. Upgraded the full suite yesterday and instantly regret doing so. Premiere has been acting weird on multiple occasions during the short time I've been using CC 2018. So far these oddities has occurred:

- Slow rendering (temporary fixed this by enabling the OpenCL rendering engine, had this set to software rendering in CC 2017 with no render problems whatsoever)

- Macbook Pro freezes / screen turns black / battery drain on rendering (no data loss however, it comes back after rendering has finished and the power plug is back in)

- The position, scale and other adjustments on clips changes on random (temporary fix has been to restart the application)

I'm currently running Sierra 10.12.6 on a Macbook Pro (Late 2013).