Premiere Pro fast color corrector gone?

I do have sympathy when a user hits a painful issue. Don't misunderstand that. I do disagree with some of your basic assumptions though in this case.

Different expectations I suppose.

Anytime a software dev puts something in a folder they label "obsolete", I assume it means exactly what it says. That they don't find that tool still useful and will do nothing more with it. And I further assume, that it's going to go buh-bye at some point.

Why?

Because over the many years I've been working around computers, every app that has had an "obsolete" folder eventually deletes everything in that folder. In fact, any other company that has had effects/tools in an Obsolete folder has deleted those in the next major version release. So in my experience, Adobe kept those effects around for half a decade, which is to me both amazing and totally unique.

You also seem to have an assumption about long-term stability in apps even existing as a 'thing', which is to me ... illogical. I've got a box in a drawer of all the discs for installing MAJOR programs that businesses around the world used as a key tool. Expensive apps, a couple I spent near $1,000 on.

And those apps don't even exist any more. Used dBase recently?

Here in the Adobe apps, they dumped SpeedGrade, which I was vocal about being a stupid decision. But it was not different than for any other company deciding to discontinue an app or tool of an app. They decided that going forward it was wiser financially to work with Lumetri within Pr than have a separate program.

I disagreed, but well ... it's their app, their decision. As decisions within my business are my business. And any current or potential customer will make their decision to use my firm or not.

And in my many years in business, within our own company, we have offered different services and products at different times. Most of which we do not offer anymore. Are we evil for that? I suppose you might assume "yes", because naturally ... we didn't communicate directly to every client we've ever had that we were going to discontinue some service or product.

So from experience, I never assume any program, or even any part of any program, will ever be permanently available forever. It's not only never been done by anyone, but would stifle development and change.

Next, there have been hundreds of threads & posts on this & other forums about the Obsolete folder and what will eventually happen to the items therein. So it isn't something that only an elite few knew of.

If you hadn't seen them, that's unfortunate. But had you posted here to ask, or ever done a search of this or other forums about Adobe's use of "Obsolete" on those folders, you would have had an answer.

Yea, part of being a professional is being proactive learning about the tools & services you need to get for your clients. It has been my entire time in business.

Neil

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