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stevedross  wroteI guess I'm looking for some finality before I request a refund from my vendor.I dont blame you... we have been SCREAMING at Adobe on this issue for months now and they are clearly not giving two hoots. Ask for your money back and I would try the free copy of HitMovie because Adobe are ruining stuff and charging more for ruined stuff... Reeks of Apple behavior.

Adobe's customer service is a joke. I love the way they blame other people for issues with there software and it's support for Dolby. For them it's not about providing upgrades; it about downgrades that save them money and installing spyware on your machine. I can't believe they will not let anyone reinstall the versions of there software that actually work. They need to own up and do the right thing.

I'm a IT Systems Admin for a large hospital network with over 40,000 workstations. Adobe has literally exhausted me to the point I'm thinking about perusing another career! I'm not going to put a bunch of specifics up here because I'm weak and out of energy now. Dealing with situation after situation for months non stop with these CC products has become unbearable. Before the role out from CS6 to CC I would get the rare call here and there but now its become my life. Constant limitless problems every single damn day with this software. I'm done I want out - Its to much and not worth having a heart attack over. In fact I'm going to put my two weeks notice in right now. Screw this crap...

Isn't it crazy....You can buy HitFilmPro for $299 (on special) and it includes the plugin to read AC3 audio for all your Consumer cameras.HitFilm allows you to do what PPro and AE do all in the same app.Even Resolve & Fusion is a better alternative.I am glad this misery is almost over for meJust a littler while and I will be done with Adobe!!This is ridiculous to be held in bondage to buggy software and poor PR & support.It just ain't worth the hassles to endure because of poor decisions by Adobe.

Its all a joke. Adobe are taking the proverbial... I cancelled my account with them and now am using an old copy of premiere which I dont have to pay for. I dont like being fleeced in Adobes price rise crap WHEN THEY ARE REMOVING FUNCTIONS FROM THEIR SOFTWARE!!!!!

We switched to DaVinci Resolve now too. It´s not perfect but very cool. Cost just 300 Bucks. Fast Updates. Good Support. 

Oops!... I Did It Again... (by Adobe Spears)Our "beloved" Adobe did it again. Like always, taking it's right to manage our life. I curse the day I opted for CC insted of buying discounted CS6. This is living hell. So many years of constant changes, numerosu broken worklflows, updating filters which worked just ok before, days combined of searching help for uknown behaviour of programs, inventing the whell for workarounds, ... well - thank you GREEDY Adobe.Before CC you have to pay fee to Dolby per each licence (of Premiere) sold and collect money for that licence only once. So you had to be profitable on each sell. But now you collect money EACH MONTH for very same software... and it is still not enough? Billions of income is not enough to pay pennies per user to Dolby?This is pure nonchalance toward long term users. But let's facit... each time we update, we KNOW something will be broken, we just do not know what, since they do not document. We know it will be some new bugs introduced

Back around 2003 when I first started using Premiere, I had problems because we used a Matrox hardware/software product with it. I had a new computer built for my employer a year ago and have used mostly Premiere and Photoshop. I can't recall any problems at all. The Creative Cloud interface seemed very convoluted but once everything was up and running the programs worked great for us. A lot of what I do is shot on green screen and Ultra is great. With lighting adjustments I have been getting amazing keys where you really can't tell it's green screen. Not saying you are having problems because you're doing something wrong, but after working years in corporate video production, I finally arrived at having a relatively a stable workflow. Beginning around 2003 we mostly did video for live projected presentations. Wasn't even 720. Amazing how things have progressed. My Galaxy S5 shoots better video than our $7,000 camera back then. I would be interested in hearing from some of you guys hav

I am no longer shocked at how poorly Adobe implements new features. I am still shocked at how bad they are at listening to feedback though.It's really bad when people beg for a feature for years, and then when you finally implement it, it's so terrible that people beg you to let them turn it off!Best way to handle it going forward is to call all new releases BETA and issue a warning that it will likely cause you headaches and cost you time you will never get back to install it.

I think the Adobe forums are the least intuitive I have ever used. Does anyone else feel the same way? I only post here about 3 to 4 times a year because the forums have a funky GUI. If the GUI I was better I would hang around more. I still don't know how to scroll back to post from several days ago. Can some one clue me in? I took me a while to figure out you have to go to actions to create a new post. It seems like there should be an easier way.[text edited by mod]

If SureCode costs more than you want to pay to handle AC3 (Dolby)... you have choicesThere are still NLE's that still support AC3/AVD- PowerDirector Supports DD (AC3/AVD)- VideoStudio Supports DD (AC3/AVD)- Pinacle Supports DD (AC3/AVD)- HitFilm Express allows DD (AC3/AVD) with $10 plugin (included in the Pro Version)Why pay so much money for a DD License when you can get it cheaper.Or you can use Hand-drake... which adds more workflow issues.This way you can still use PPro, AE & AudI am glad I dumped this Subscription.I mainly use PowerDirector, Hitfilm and Divanci Resolve.

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I DID IT!!!I have finally CANCELED my subscription to Adobe!!!!YES!!NO MORE BONDAGE!!!Affinity Designer and PhotoHitFilm, Blender & PowerDirectorCorelDrawPDFForgePhpEd (to replace Dreamweaver)Anime StudioAll Good Now!SEE YA!

I think you're partially right Jim..Because nowadays "Creative Cloud Desktop apps" It's not marketed, advertised, targeted.  like "Creative Suite Master Collection" was.Now It's like You can do anything you want in a few clicks anywhere, now It's promoted as everyone and anyone apps bundle to have as standard, from pros to first timers, to use professionally or for fun.So, the more Its presented as "also" as  for everyone, all levels, the more It has to be mindless to deal with technical issues, if the person don't know how to use all resources, ok. But that same person doesn't need to know nothing about technical issues at all.Here is a little chat a friend of mine (highlighted yellow) did upon my request, with adobe creative cloud sales advisor (highlighted pink)Hi, may I have your first name please? Fe.....p Greetings Fe.....p It's my pleasure to have you on this chat. How may I assist you today? I have a nephew , he's 14 and likes images, color, clips.. hes always filming

Every one of these workarounds defeat the purpose of subscription based software. When Adobe pushes out updates, it’s supposed to benefit users with new features and improved performance; not disable our workflow and interrupt productivity.I believe Adobe owes us a permanent solution. I for one will be calling Adobe support today to resolve my issues with Premiere 2018. I have the latest MAC OS, and with everything I’ve read Dolby support should be provided by the OS.Stay tuned.Paul Miller

I think its bad business you all are doing to people who buy your software and can no longer use it unless we give you half of our jobs each time we need to do our projects . I have to learn how to use final cut or Vegas or avid because there is no monthly cost. I have perfected your software after everyone in my field was saying don't use it because its no good. and they are right. for 3 years I would brag about it . and I have to purchase another software and do a movie with someone else's software. this is a big unconvinced for me. but you don't care about the little man only the big million dollar companies. well I am not MGM nor CBS even though I have worked with networks like them. thank you for being so greedy. signed so disappointed.@

I'm with everyone else... this was a — move by Adobe. I wasn't in the middle of a project like many others have been, but I do export and burn BDs with Dolby 5.1 audio for review. Removing the Dolby encoder without warning while still charging the same price as before was bad business. Between stuff like this and other — they've been running lately (like breaking things they know are broken but still haven't fixed) it's tick tock for Premiere in the professional workspace. For Adobe to say "just upgrade your Windows OS" - guess what?!? I'm on a Mac... this break can't be fixed the way you're telling me to fix it. ADDITIONALLY, I shouldn't have to.Here's the thing Adobe... Apple tried to tell people to throw their workflow out the window and change to way APPLE thought they should edit when they released FCPX. Professionals don't want to necessarily change their workflow and, as such, Premiere saw a HUGE influx of new users who thought it was arrogant of Apple to disrupt their professio

Premiere Pro may be...overkill...for this sort of thing.  Have you looked into Premiere Elements?

What is the oint of Adobe offering the "premiere" video editing package without tools like dolby encode that you need to create a DVD with compressed audio... really what is the point adobe. Where do you get off? THIS IS A COMPLAINT> ADOBE YOU REALISE NOW WHY PEOPLE STOP PAYING YOU AND GOING BACK TO USING OLDER VERSIONS.... OR PIRATE VERSIONS THIS IS EXACTLY WHY BECAUSE YOU KEEP PULLING THE RUG OUT FROM UNDER PEOPLE.BRING BACK DOLBY... THIS ISNT A REQUEST... THIS IS A DEMAND otherwise folks... stop paying them and tell them why.DVD requires DOLBY DIGITAL ENCODING.... this just means Adobe are saying you should encode DVDs any more!

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3 months ago I wanted to check out a program to color grade my Videos. I found Premier Pro the cheapest offering a month membership and the first thing that happened after starting the program after setup, was that the computer went down, -- happened ever since after 5 to 10 minuts. Today I wanted to quit my "plan" as I found out I did not just sign up to one application but a bundle I never wanted or used. So deleting my "Plan" .  I was told I was presented to a "possible fee" of some 100 $ --- Adobe seem to want a full year membership. Now on my way out to the Danish web to warn others, I was so stupid to click a button that promised me 2 months free use of the program case I did not want to leave my "Plan" anyway. As I were just looking for a way to escape this fraud as unharmed as possible I wonder how legal all this is under Danish Law. I will naturally ask this on the Danish web, but already fear being trapped in the Mouse trap.Well my computer are to weak, but I know progra

Seriously with the amount of wasted time that can't be billed to the client Adobe should be crediting us the cost of the program. All year I've been having problems.

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Adobe have decided to do the dirty on their customers and ruin it for everyone, just in time for xmas. By doing this they are forcing people who were quite happy on windows 7 to have to take their machine to a shop and have a new operating system installed like the awful 8.1 or the "updates whenever it wants" Windows 10... at your own cost and also then you will probably find that your hardware isnt compatable with that so will have wasted your money and have to buy a new machine. Yes Adobe charge you more money for Premiere and rip bits out of it. Quite funny - well it would be if it weren't true. Moderator Note: This post was edited. Please do not discuss legal issues. It is against our community guidelines.

I don't understand why Adobe is like this now. In the past I was always excited for software upgrades but now we live in constant fear of updates and are forced to be a year behind on a product we are paying for. I don't get it. I think it's a problem that includes almost every industry these days. Companies seem perfectly fine with almost-good-enough products rather than taking pride in exceptional and complete products. I think the workforce is now more interested in working at a cool office with ping pong tables and napping rooms than it is actually producing something that works. I know that makes me sound like a cranky old man but I have seen it first hand. It is 100% true that Adobe uses us, their professional paying customers, as beta testers and it's just not right.The stock answer of "only update between jobs" doesn't fly when you literally never have a "between jobs" moment.