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I can't wait to buy my new Power iMac - I'm getting the Final Cut suite. I CAN'T STAND Adobe's constantly fiddling and futzing with this software so it becomes unusable! Maybe I'm jumping into the fire from the frying pan, but I can't use Premiere anymore. I no sooner get used to it when some clown at corporate decides to change the interface. I just don't get the mind of developers.BTW that video tip doesn't work. Again, the interface has changed from November 3 to December 6. WOW!

It would've been nice to have a warning that I would be losing functionality when running an update. I'm running Windows 7, still supported by Microsoft. The only answer seems to be update to Windows 8+ or buy a 3rd party plug-in for $350. Oh well, Adobe gets to save their licensing fees since I can't even downgrade to v.2017. Something that was completely functional is now dead after spending thousands of dollars on their software.

Lately in the recent moths even since last year Ive been aiming wanting to upgrade my video equipmemt and overall improve my image quality and speed of my editing so I can get video footage out and up.Camera wise im looking at getting the AX53 Camcorder; from my own reasearch it seems like one of the best camcorders right now.So that I can do some multicam composing on the spot rather than in post I'm very interested in MySlingStidio to so I can cut down a lot of my post editing. Both things are around $1K. If you can only get one right now which do you say is more important; the cam to upgrade equipment and picture quality or the multicam Sling Studio to improve compositing and cut down post edit ?

It is shocking how inefficient Premiere has become.  Most of us, here on the forums, are running high end computers, and yet Premiere gets slower and slower with every release.  I'm still suffering with import times in the MINUTES for a dozen clips or WAV files.Adobe, please take the pedal off of the gazillion features pipeline, and, instead, bug fix and optimize.  Your code base must be a mess.  It's getting worse and worse.  There is something very wrong with a program that takes MINUTES to import a bunch of files into a project.  It's not useable.My standard procedure with my current workflow is to start an import and come here, to the forums, to vent.Oh, and I demanded my subscription to be free for 2 months.  And I'll demand it again in two months if the import bug still exists.  Everyone using this beta software should DEMAND the same.  EVERYONE!  Seriously, if you're here, suffering one of these project crippling bugs, you should

Opening multiple projects pushed me into this upgrade early. Something that i never do with Adobe. But this time i though to myself, this is the feature i have been waiting for since final cut 7. What the heck, maybe it will be ok? Now inserting clips to a freaking timeline trigers - premiere not responding - message.I gues on the one hand it is a well known fact that under no circumstances You should ever update adobe product right away. So i can blame only myself for doing that? On the other hand we are all paying monthly for this software and we should expect for the freakin thing to work properly regardles the updares. I get some bug here and there, but v2018 is just unusable for proffesional use where deadlines are involved. You know there are couple of things that i pay a monthly fee for, that is electricity, rent,  cable, hot water, etc etc. If all those things would be provided by adobe at least couple of moths during the year i would have to use candles or i would just no

So, I've been waiting this year to get a video camera, black Friday approaches and my time to commit is here! I've been leaning to a Sony AX53 all year, but have been to Best Buy a few times to look it over and only have one hesitation, can it be used successfully on a tripod! At the store they have it on a magnetic base, and so I was comparing it to the AX100 next to it (50% more expensive, older, shorter zoom, not as good handheld, but much bigger sensor) and I was then reminded of the 'stutter' people see from the AX53 when it's on a stable base. Just tapping the counter it was on was producing this annoying judder/stutter/etc... I've read that Sony did a firmware update to the AX53 which helped for when the camera was on a tripod. I need to go back to Best Buy today perhaps and check to see what firmware that camera had.So, any recommendations or comments on the abovethanks very much,mp

New guy here, glad to meet you all. I'm learning Premiere and After Effects and will be asking software-specific questions as they come up. But what I want to ask first is how to become a better amateur cameraman so I shoot my films the right way?I think the editing software won't help if the movie had been shot incorrectly, like most people who have expensive camera, but their camera work is amateurish. They just pan around like my amateur dad when he got his first VHS camera 30 years ago.I took a film class almost 20 years ago, don't remember much except that you are not supposed to pan!Help me find some resources I could study!

People that reviewed CC 2018 favorably are nuts, or have a very bad intention, or did not use de program like a pro.Premiere CC 2018 is a Crapware that is compromising all of it's monthly paying clients. Do not open video .MTS from Sony cams, due to the use of Dolby for sound recording, unless you upgrade do Win 10 (upgrade is free till now): With WIn 7 you get only video and not the audio foram a .MTS. Do not render Lumetri functions on NVIDIA GPU Cuda (650 TI turbo, last driver installed). Place black windows at the interface, probably, because, this Nvidia issue. Slowed rendering times. An the worse: when you revert do CC 2017, you are unable to use Sony cameras digital videos without going do Win 10.You are very right. There are no relevant diferences on 2018 that justify stop using 2017. One of the most noticeable is 10 or 12 colors for labels... If you did not updated. PLEASE, stay as you are and DO NOT UPDATE.

Welcome to Crapware Inferno... All of us are on the floor...

you're just criminals!

why should we be adobe testers?

Maybe I am not in the right forum to discus this but I am going to leave this post here.I know the apps that generate more sales are probably Photoshop and Lightroom but...I think there should be a Video plan that would include After effects, Premiere Pro and Media Encoder and I can't think of any reason why it is still not possible to have a bundle/plan that fits video artists OR any other type of artiste (animation, audio(don't forget those guys), graphic designers, web designers...).Maybe I am missing something.What do you think?

Tell me, please, why should we, as the users of Adobe products, need any dancing with drums during installation and use? This should be the concern of developers. Any user wants to just install, start and use, everything !.We, users, are for this and pay.

HelloFollowing GoPro's recent announcement to release CineForm as an open source codec:RedShark News - GoPro opens all doors to the CineForm codecGoPro Official Website - Capture + share your world - GoPro Open Sources the CineForm Codec GoPro/CineForm Insider: CineForm Goes Open Source Do you think it would be a good idea if Adobe would integrate it and make it the default codec in Premiere?Could we finally have a free, cross-platform, open source, broadcast-quality, codec for mastering files?Any thoughts?

Then Kevin, why don't you and your pals at abobe stop ruining your own software?If multiple project capability has been a long/greatly desired advent, then why on earth did you make it so unbearable and confusing?Why would I want my projects to open within each other? Do you or have you ever used this software for actual video editing? Do you find this feature helpful?I can't for the life of me think of an instance where'd I'd want my project to open inside another project where it combines my timeline sequences and places sequences from one project next to the sequences from the other.I understand that in previous versions if I want files from another project, and I don't want to have to re-edit the shot, re-color correct it, etc, I can simply copy the file from the timeline, close that project, open the other project and paste and PRESTO, it's there.Is the new multi-project addition supposed to help me in that I'm avoiding going between projects? Because if that's the case you missed

i just saw this leaked documentation for the next version of CC. this may be the best release yet... Adobe Creative Cloud has moved to native Operating System (OS) support for 16x9 Widescreen Video decoding (reading 16x9 Widescreen Video files) and is no longer providing support for encoding (writing) 16x9 Widescreen Video formats in the current and future releases of Creative Cloud.16x9 Widescreen Video decodingBoth Windows and OS X operating systems (Windows 8.1 or above and Mac OS X .11 or above) contain native support for 16x9 Widescreen Video decoding functions. Please update to the latest version of your operating system16x9 Widescreen Video decode support for Windows operating systemsIf you run a Windows operating system on your computer, all recent versions now support some form of Operating System (OS) level decode for 16x9 Widescreen Video.There are a few exceptions, though:Windows 10N/10KN: Windows 10N/10KN version does not include the media package required to decode 16x9 W

Am planning on running my own multi-media production company, but as it stands right now, I have to do everything from pre/post-production, effects and lighting right down the line for some of the work I want to do, I believe if I learn a 3d software like C4D, Blender or Maya,  I will be able compete way better with my competitors in the market am in right now.So I think the key is to be able to do some cool high end 3d stuff in a timely manner.But the only problem is, I don't know which one to choose:C4D - is cheaper and looks like it can get the job done, for most commericials and other small productions I will be doing.Maya- someone told me the possibilites are endless in this program, but the only thing is, it is very expensive, so I don't know if it would make sense to invest so much into a software and hardly push it to its limit.Blender - am not sure about this, it's free LOLRegards,Semple

Dear Maxon, if you read this, please buy After Effects from Adobe and save us future trouble. Every new version is getting worse and slower. I think this application would be much better developed under Maxon and their team. I just had this to say.Thank you.

I am hunting the Apple ProRes 422 in the update as well... Anyone see it? Am I just missing it?

HEY ALL....IF YOU HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF THIS ADOBE NON-SENSEThere are ways to replace your software with different software.... NO SUBSCRIPTIONSCorelDraw replaces AI, InDesign and PhotoShopGIMP replace photoShopPDF Forge will replace AcrobatArdour replaces AuditionHitFilm Pro or BlackMagic Fusion replace AfterEffectsDavinci Resolve or Natron replaces Premiere ProHippani Animator replaces Adobe AnimateAFFINITY DESIGNER replaces IllustratorAFFINITY PHOTO replaces PhotoShopAnything can replace DreamWeaver (cause it rots anyways)IT CAN BE DONE!AND I AM GOING TO DITCH THIS SUBSCRIPTION MESS!

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My videos in a pdf play on the computer, but not on mobile devises. How do I get them to play on every devise within the same pdf?Matt

Hello everyone,Well, I've been using Premiere Pro for a year now but I've cancelled my subscription today. Here's a few of the reasons why:1. The main reason is that Adobe and Apple don't seem to be able to talk to each other. I've had an engineer tell me that Adobe have filed a bug a with Apple about terrible CUDA performance (exporting doesn't work properly - just constant errors - on my configuration of machine with OSX Sierra and apparently that's Apple's problem, there's a bug report been filed. Not good enough).2. The keyframe animation is appalling, I can't work on keyframes I have created as I can't actually move the playhead to them, I have to create a new keyframe and slightly alter the values of that and then delete the old one. Ugh. If they're trying to force me to use AE for animation then that just stinks.3. Adobe don't really have any idea about customers or users. When I just cancelled and I selected 'other' as my reason they gave me a text box the size of a matchbox -

Just a thought. Wondering how many times on uses your SD card in a video camera before inserting a brand new one. Suggestions?

I'm writing on behalf of Sierra Leone based (UK registered) charity WAYout, regarding free products, and particularly Premier Pro and Photoshop. WAYout has helped over 3000 street and disadvantaged youth in the last 5 years to change their lives through projects using film, music and arts. Our Photoshop and film editing projects are enormously popular - we have over 100 regular weekly members hoping to complete courses and get courses. Our members have gone onto paid employment as editors, writers, designers and film-makers.But we do all of this on a very small budget. Adobe products would be key to our work were they not prohibitively expensive; and trying to navigate how to get donations, through TechSoup or other providers, seems overly complicated.Can someone advise, is there anyone we can talk to about this?Thanks