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My solution, switch back to AVID!! Can't believe that Adobe would do this.  I had issues with files created on P2017 not playing on P2018 so I downgraded and work in 2017, now this!!! TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE

Man goes into shop looking to buy a car - sees one he likes the look of. It has everything he wants and for some time runs very well - it tends to be a bit over-complicated but he can live with that as when he needs some instruction he goes off to the trusty internet to find some helpful advice. Unfortunately one day it simply stops working, whenever he turns it on and puts it into first, (or engages drive), the engine turns itself off. He tries to go back to the dealer but they ignore him, they don't answer their door, nor their phone so he has to resort to his trusty internet again. Then he finds out that the beautiful and very expensive car that he bought seemingly is not always suited to driving on the freeway/motorway. Some people suggest that it should only be used to drive in the city, others that it should only be used to drive at night. One or two suggest that it is his fault for not buying a brand new garage to put his car in - although he did buy a brand hew high spec garage

We need people like you working for Adobe... it seems they don't care at all about our problems caused by their poor programming.Thanks for all your efforts.Cheers.

I got so mad I used windows movie maker instead.

Why should I continue using Premiere when Resolve seems to be much better?

If Adobe listened to their customers this would have never happened. They care about maximising cash for their greedy selves and thats it. Lets face it - Animated Titles is only just starting to be eeeked in and only works properly if you want to use it with After Effects which means you need TWO PRODUCTS. Still no templates to get you going and make some easy to use quick whooshy animations.  Final Cut has so many templates - Premiere has ZERO>>. REPEAT ZERO!!!!  They will only innovate and give people what they want when profits are going down and they get scared. Pirate their software and show them.

these people are out of their minds. i had a feeling we would start facing things like this once they moved over to a cloud based situation. in the old days when u bought the software totally and they made an idiot update that removed something people  needed, people responded by NOT BUYING the next version.Now they sneak  updates in that remove functionality and a person like me with a 7000 machine from a few years back that works better than a new off the rack one i have except that NONE of my hundreds of HD files can be imported with audio is out of luck.I dont know if there is even any legal recourse. but if i dont figure out a way to make this work im surely going to find out. there ARE no other options to premiere that are worth a damn. damn it.

MOVE TO DAVINCI RESOLVE 15Its MUCH more powerful than Premiere now and it has a ton more features. Its time to let Adobe go. They dont want to optimize their software because they are too busy to optimize their software for modern CPUS. Heck, they barely have GPU optimization. Davinci Resolve has it all!

Thanks for the software ideas, but it is still a great shame that Adobe cannot see the worth in their own products! The question I am asking myself is; is Adobe really serious about competing in the pro film production sector anymore, or now trying to position against the likes of Corel for consumer market? Some of their decisions lately suggest the latter...

Revolutionary tools for editing, color correction, audio post and now visual effects, all in a single application!Sounds good right?  Only...it's not from Adobe.DaVinci Resolve 15 | Blackmagic Design But it is free.(Adobe, you really need to step up your game.)

Wishes come true, it seems. DaVinci Resolve 15 | Blackmagic Design Impressive.Adobe, are you seeing this? The world of editing and VFX has just changed for the better again. Take note.

Late to the game but just as disappointed. This was such a useful program and finding an alternative has been extremely frustrating. More than anything, I find it so ridiculous to have the program be completely useless after January 2019. What in the hell are you thinking, Adobe? Way to make our jobs harder by wasting time looking for software that fits our needs. Makes me wonder if it's even worth it to keep anything but Lightroom and Photoshop, honestly. I'm still upset Adobe got rid of Speedgrade and tried to act like Lumetri was even remotely comparable. Moved to Da Vinci for that. Now I'm moving to somewhere else for screenwriting. Maybe it's time to learn the Da Vinci editor or head back to Final Cut Pro.

Found this photo of an Adobe social media rep getting ready for work on the day of a new CC release.

Looking for somebody in helping with visual effects to create a spiderman fan film. E.g web shooting and the deflating of peters suit Really need help would be greatful with helpAll work is unpaid due to not profitting from a fan film

[reference to profanity removed by moderator] i moved to Resolve, Thanks for the Support Adobe

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Xavier+Solo  wrote Folks, don't listen to Adobe. They clearly have no idea what their own software is able to do, or not do.Moderator Note: Post edited. Please do not condone use of internal engineering tools.    THANK YOU for this work around. I am thrilled to see that you've come up with this. I will gladly tell all of editing friends about this work around.   I've requested so many features and submitted bugs to Adobe over the years, and nothing ever gets done with them. It's a huge waste of time no matter what Adobe reps may say in this forum. Check my post history for literally years worth of comments and suggestions and bug reports, very few of which have ever been satisfactorily resolved. Yeah, I submit the bug report and feature report first, wait a couple of months, then go on the forums to add "Me Too!" to the 100 threads about the exact thing I'm complaining about.   In a way, I am kind of hoping people see t

Well…thank you again Adobe. First we build solutions with Adobe Edge Animate…and you say: "nah, we're not doing this anymore". No you are doing the same with Muse. Thousands (probably more) of companies, like my own, are developing solutions for their clients with Muse…but you don't care…you just pull the plug and move on...and don't give a s#€t. I wish there was a way to make you responsible, financially, but I'm sure there isn't. All those projects like XD, Dimensions (btw a big joke), Portfolio, Spark, etc... Just drop it. There is now way in hell that I, and I hope more people than I reason like I do, will try any of your idiot projects, that's just risking my reputation.  What you don't understand, or perhaps just don't care about, is that we create promises to our customers based on what you promise your tools can create. With Edge I had 20+ app solutions delivered to a big industrial company, with a yearly revenue of more that 10 billion euros per year, I could do nothing m

I did tweet a few times, but there was no reaction at all...

This is very a very disappointing move on adobe's part, and continues to exemplify the disturbing trend adobe has adopted of simply removing features, leaving professional users with little to no alternative options. Adobe recently pulled a similar move by no longer allowing a direct link to adobe speed grade from the newer versions of premier pro. It would be one thing if speedgrade had been integrated into premier pro, but it was not, and the color correction tools offered as an alternative did not provide the same level of precision and control. So now that story is dead here is my question; Why should I continue to spend a good chunk of money paying adobe every month, when the services I rely on to run my business are slowly being whittled away? Also it's not like it's getting any cheaper. The value this company is offering seems to be steadily dropping, and focusing more on the social media content producers, rather than the professionals. So what assurance do I have that you guys

See, for example:  Dolby sues Adobe for dodging license fees • The Register

No need to sell your PC, install Da Vince (free!) and be happy ... I should have accepted this suggestion before, because I'm working without any major difficulties in adapting to the settings!

Isn't paying $50.00 a month enough to have software that actually works they way it should? I have made several bug reports about the mask and matte problems yet they are still there. Masks and mattes are important. The videos show the problem plain as day. CC just introduces more and more bugs. With the amount of CC users the price should have dropped to $30.00 a month. Is Adobe concerned about having a good product or are they only concerned about profits? As a CC user I am a dissatisfied with what I see from Adobe over the past few years. Please Adobe get rid of the bugs. If you have to scrap the Mercury Playback engine than please do so because it does not work (It did work with PP CS 5.5). It would be nice if Adobe could let me know if they plan on fixing all the bugs or not. If they are not going to fix the bugs I can cancel my CC subscription ASAP. https://youtu.be/1mJnLnyACoghttps://youtu.be/b-vJL8b6cOMPremiere Pro CC track matte issues - YouTube

Hi......could I ask those of you who contributed to this thread to consider adding a comment in support of keeping Adobe Story going on the following thread? The hope would be that if enough people contributed Adobe may listen. If you know of others who use Adobe Story perhaps you could pass the link on and invite them to make a comment. We are also hoping that Story could be developed further to the same standard as Adobe Story Classic.Story Discontinued... ThanksBill

I have download the free version of DaVinci Resolve 14 to compare it to Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2018.  The main feature missing for me is the ability to List View Sort.  When I have many video clips, I need this feature.  There are also many features that Resolve does not have.  Perhaps, the $299 program has more of the features of Premiere.  Jim Simon, a long time contributor to this forum has switched to Resolve.  Sorry to see him go.

I understand the anger & frustration. But realistically, there were two companies and obviously lawyers involved. Remember, Adobe didn't own the 'tech' for reading/processing ac3 files, Dolby Laboratories did. It's been rather past annoying especially as there's been so little effective assistance from Adobe on how to navigate this problem.I've met a few of the Adobe staffers at both NAB & MAX ... and they won't say a word, hint at nothing, nor respond in any way on this. Not a wink, shake, shrug ... nothing. Never seen them so uncommunicative on something.So ... at that point, it's clearly become a lawyering issue. Which means us users are just standing here. The staffers "standing" over there. And they aren't allowed to talk with us.Nope ... not good. But also clearly, not a choice of the product teams.Neil