Still rediculously slow today. I'll add some more information.
There seems to be some inconsistency to what's happening on the slow response to editing commands.
Imagine this, the sequence is fifty minutes long. Mark and IN and an OUT of about five minutes in duration and press EXTRACT. Then the incosistency happens.
Sometimes the duration of the edit, seen in the project window, updates instantly, leaving you waiting an unusable amount of time for the interface to update the timeline and give you control again.
Sometimes the duration of the edit does not alter, even after the slow deleting of a five minute part of the sequence.
But both ways still are not what I would call acceptable amounts of time to wait for doing the bread-and-butter operations of video editing. The core of adobe Premiere is to playback a string of video clips in the order you choose, allowing to shorten or lengthen the clips to suit your needs. This core set of operations has always needed to be there, from the very inception of moving pictures. Why does this not work? It's core functionality that every editor needs. Like someone else said, "Give me back CS6 and we'll all be happy." Adobe haven't imporved Adobe since then. They've simply broken things by adding gimmicks to add to their sales prowess at trade shows.
I've spent more time trying to fix Adobe over the years (since CS6) than actually being creative with it. Please, please, please be more careful and test things properly. We don't need updates every ten minutes. I'd argue we don't need updates every year. We need reliability. Tools that work for the core of everyday video editing. Tools that are fast and allow seamless and unhindered contact with the material we're working with. There's a group of us professionals in the UK that are collating an alternative to the Adobe CS package, as nothing works properly. We are minutes away from finding the full set. The only thing that keeps us using Adobe CS for now is After Effects, which is crashy nowadays, but there's not a good competitor out there to replace it. Yet. Please reply if you know of a usable alternative to After Effects for motion graphics. You read stupid things on websites saying things like Resolve or Blender are good alternatives. They're not a replacement for After Effects. Once that hole is filled you'll see an exedus from Adobe. I'd even put myself forward as Product Manager for a good competitor.
As you can see, I'm ranting. Adobe makes me miserable, so it felt like the correct place to rant.
Now, back to an awful day trying to edit using Adobe Premiere. Deadlines are deadlines....
Simon.
Is it STILL broken?
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