How is CC 2015? Bugs?

[Stephen Christie]

Agreed. I am very careful about not switching versions during a project, unless there is some absolute need, and even then backups are your friend. Our studio is still locked to 2014 until the patches solidify things.

Recently Adobe put out an update for Premiere 2014 (8.2), and once you opened your file in it, you couldn’t open it again in a previous update (8.0.1), which can make sharing files or working on different machines tricky.

I hope reworking AE isn’t similar to when Autodesk reworked 3DS Max 2012. It was greatly disliked (putting it mildly) and it took a couple of versions before the stability and performance got back to where people trusted it again. In the long run they really moved the app forward, but it had some growing pains. Hopefully AE’s issues won’t be as severe, but the slow “live” preview has me concerned.

Stephen Christie
Technical Lead, New Media
Tasc Studios | Tasc, Inc.

[Allan Houston]

Updates for both Premiere and After Effects were release this week, so hopefully they cure some of the problems. I haven’t checked them out yet.

Dividing 2014 into 2 versions without backwards compatibility between projects was a terrible idea. At least this version of AE produces projects that are compatible with the previous version. Premiere doesn’t unfortunately.

I would like to make one point though. On another thread I have criticised Creative Cloud’s horrible login issues but it must be said that there is an amount of responsibility one must take when new versions come out. Don’t rush in. Test the waters first and try it out. It’s the reason it took me a while to update to Mavericks and why I haven’t updated to Yosemite yet. So just be sensible. Of course you shouldn’t automatically switch to the new version when it comes out as you won’t be able to go back to the previous version, without at worst losing some of that work, or at best having to fiddle around with an XML. There can be many befuddling problems with this new software, but the part you should be playing is to test things out, be wary and don’t rush into a big change before you’ve got your projects finished and are confident the apps are stable.

[James Harford]

To add to this thread.

AE CC 2015 is not ready for consumer market yet. IMO this should still be a BETA release.

I had the looping login problem. I phoned Adobe to help sort it, which they did – the operator took control of my machine and fixed the problem. That was great!

Then I realised that she had installed AE CC 2015 AND that it DELETES every other version I had on my machine. This is a catastrophic error. So be careful guys. CC 2014 was in my opinion unstable also. and CC 2015 is extremely buggy – it wont even let you see the progress on your render in the composition panel , as well as the staggering audio, terrible ram previews ( I get what you are trying to do and love the idea of a better ram preview, but this isnt ready) missing effects, hangin on every key frame movement and beach balling constantly. This is what I have found and I have only just installed it! It really makes me loose faith in Adobe. I was a die hard fan.. until every release since CS6 has gotten worse…

Why the constant need to bring out new versions? Just fix the old ones… Just my opinions, but many motion graphic friends agree.

I love you after effects, but I am loosing faith!

After effect used to be the best coded platform on the Adobe suite and I loved using it. Adobe if you are listening, please help the community by stabilizing a version before adding new features.

But getting send projects that dont open in older versions forces me to upgrade. It takes me so long to get my system up together with scripts and plugins and presents (yes it migrates alot now, but by the tim I have my system up and running a new version comes out.

I have creative cloud – but I cant use a CC 2014 file in CC without saving it down first?? ahhhhggg why?I have the license for both right?

I am considering buying a PC just to make the software I use stable – would this help?? Im not sure

I blame apple slightly for this as Yosemite really put a spanner in the works for Adobe.

Everything moving too fast!!

[Claude Rozsa]

For nothing in the world will I use CC2015 in its present state. I’ve read here and on the adobe forums all the problems you guys had to face; I’m only an amateur in this field but there are limits for bugs even a non professional can accept from any software and any company in the world.

To pretend that this upgrade was seriously tested makes me laugh, but the victims of these huge loopholes must not laugh at all to see days after days of work torn to pieces because of such an irresponsible release. I’m really sorry for them.

Claude-Paris

[Rich Malmberg]

I couldn’t agree more. Adobe better watch out. black magic is right behind you.
If Fusion is usable people are going to start jumping ship. sorry, huge fan of after effects (since version 3) but not since 2015 came out. Adobe missed the boat with Speedgrade too. It’s a buggy
Mess. Resolve is amazingly stable. Does anyone rigorously use these programs and test them? I don’t think
so. At least not with enough different machines codecs and plug-ins. To be fair they have their hands full with a huge number of variables. But they should not release these new versions until they are tested or with release them with caveats .
Instead, Just sign people up with the promise and take their money. It doesn’t matter if it actually works because most people don’t actually do this for a living anyway. Sent from my iPhone, sorry about the bad formatting. Thank God I’m not coding for Adobe!
Pissed.

[John Schaub]

After Effects used to be so stable. It was the most stable program I used, it hardly ever crashed, and when it did it was so nice and saved first.

NOW, it is by far the most buggy program I own. The lack of multi-processing kills me. The ram preview bugs slow down all my work. Whenever I render, the render queue tab is pushed to the background and I loose the ability to cancel the render until it’s done. Audio previews don’t work correctly. Play from current position in the timeline is totally broken. I am sure there are a few more that drive me nuts daily….

I really expect more stability from a subscription service. Get your act together Adobe.

[Walter Soyka]

File your bug reports — that’s the best way to let Adobe know what isn’t working.
https://www.adobe.com/products/wishform.html

Walter Soyka
Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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