Premiere Pro CC 2018 Update or No?

[bubbahgump]

I'm always terrified to update to the full release of CC.

Is it like Adobe always does where they use the first full update as a beta and their unwitting customers as the guinea pig beta testers? 

I can only assume it is full of bugs and everyone is crashing and nothing works as per usual.  They usually take a couple of incremental updates to figure things out.

Please correct me if I'm wrong and Adobe has for once done it right and has not thrown the beta testing on their paying customers.

BTW I'm on the newest Macbook Pro 15" OSX 10.12.6, 16gb RAM, Radeon Pro 460

[ANT517]

Core i7 Sky

GTX 1070 Ti

24gb DDr4

Win 10

Media : AVCHD

A myriad of effects. (Warp, Transition, median.

(What specific info for the Workflow?

[R Neil Haugen]

Did you open the 2017 project file in 2018, so it auto-updated the project, or start a new project in 2018, and then in Media Browser import the 2017 project file and assets?

The latter process for some reason is <much> more stable when upgrading to a new build series. 2017 was 11.x, 2018 is 12.x builds.

Did you upload the full folder tree from the camera card, or "just" the files? PrPro does much better in keeping track of AVCHD media with full card uploads, then importing by ingesting in the Media Browser or right-click in the Project folder, "Import".

If you've much Warp in your project, it's easier especially for larger projects to get your Warp "final" early then export that to the Media you will use for delivery. Then replace the original media with it. Cuts down the workload on the CPU dramatically during playback, and using the "smart preview " option during export can speed that also.

Also, you might benefit from using the built-in proxy process, using the Cineform presets included for best playback & stability. Use the Toggle Proxies icon to switch forth and back in the Program monitor controls.

Also, when a project gets unstable, find your cache & cache database locations. Shut down PrPro and the manually delete all cache files. Reboot. Start up PrPro and allow it a bit to rebuild the cache files.

I hope something there helps.

Neil

[ANT517]

I initially did the former but then switched to the latter after the issues persisted.

When bringing in the sequences I only brought in the specific sequences allowing PP to import the necessary footage.

I will try a few of these and see if I get some results...

Thank you

[R Neil Haugen]

Just hoping you can get working.

Neil

[Film Production LA]

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

[R Neil Haugen]

This is frustrating  ... most of us are working fine, and some like you are being hammered with multiple issues.

Hard to express the total frustrations in a public forum.

Neil

[anubratak96413786]

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... 😕

[DannyM1000]

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.