Is Adobe simply trying to plug holes in a sinking ship?

[Jan Janowski]

I’m staying with CS6…. After CS6 Beta was disbanded, the infamous V6.0.4 was issued without beta support… It was a disaster, and much complaining here was done until they released V6.0.5

On one hand I keep hearing how CC is good, and another how different year versions of CC are bad and to be avoided….

And I just keep Dynamic Linking to Encore from PPRO, as if it was entirely normal to do so……

I’m staying with CS6

[Andy Patterson]

With CC I am always afraid to upgrade knowing there is a good chance I will find new bugs. I never felt that way about the CS versions. Premiere Pro needs more Beta testing than Illustrator or Lightroom because of all the 3rd party broadcast hardware available for it. Although Avid is not cheap people claim it is reliable. I guess I will have to find out for myself. I have to admit Premiere is to the point where I must realize things are going to get worse and worse. I think Adobe wasted to much time and money on mobile apps.

[Daniel Waldron]

I think Premiere Pro is a great editing program. I use Premiere and After Effects 2015.3 on a daily basis for numerous types of projects and rarely run into bugs now. Final Cut, and to a lesser extent Avid, has numerous bugs as well. I guess it just depends on which ones you are willing to put up with. I will admit Adobe’s new releases are always riddled with bugs, but if you wait a while before updating, it’s generally pretty smooth.

[Jon Doughtie]

What Daniel said. Don’t rush to anyone’s dot-zero release anymore. More and more frequently we are all the last round of Beta testers now, and not just for Adobe’s products.

My experience matches what Daniel describes. We didn’t go from 2014 to 2015 until the dot 3 version was released. Wouldn’t touch 2017 until dot 2 or dot 3 either.

Let someone else find the issues.

JMHO.

System:
Dell Precision T7600 (x2)
Win 7 64-bit
32GB RAM
Adobe CC 2015.02 (as of 6/2016)
256GB SSD system drive
4 internal media drives RAID 5
Typically cutting short form from HD MP4 and P2 MXF.

[Steve Brame]

The problem is, if no one installs a dot-zero release soon after it’s available, who’s going to beta test it?

Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions

[Chris Borjis]

concur with Jon D on this one.

Though I’m still running 2015.2 here.

Don’t worry Steve, SOMEONE will always want to be running the latest/greatest
version and take the plunge and experience the issues.

I do, once in a great while if there’s some compelling reason to do so, but
only with a recent backed up cloned disk so I can immediately revert if
there’s real issues.

From my experience the least buggy / most stable version ever was the last
updated version of the original CC release. It never crashed on me.

[Andrew Kimery]

[Dave LaRonde] “Well, think about this. How does a software company that RENTS is software grow its revenue? I must get more rentals.”

Generating revenue is kind of a universal need for any company that wants to keep the lights on. Ex. How does a company that SELLS a product grow it’s revenue? It must sell more of its products.

[Jon Doughtie] “What Daniel said. Don’t rush to anyone’s dot-zero release anymore.”

Not jumping on a x.0 release used to be canon, but at some point in the last few years some people decided that updating at the drop of the hat was fine, then they get burned and complain about it on Twitter. Heck, I don’t download software updates for anything until it’s been out long enough for people to see what bugs it has (and every software update is going to introduce new bugs).

I remember 10yrs ago or so when a QuickTime update (which contained a DRM/security update for iTunes) broke users abilities to export files from programs like AE and PPro. Long story short, the security update rolled out DRM for Apple’s new movie/TV service and the software wrongly flagged exports from AE as ‘illegal movie downloads’. Oops. I think Apple fixed it w/in a week, but it’s a good example of how many aspects of our machines are indirectly connected in ways that might not seem obvious.

[Andy Patterson]

[Daniel Waldron] “I think Premiere Pro is a great editing program. I use Premiere and After Effects 2015.3 on a daily basis for numerous types of projects and rarely run into bugs now. Final Cut, and to a lesser extent Avid, has numerous bugs as well. I guess it just depends on which ones you are willing to put up with. I will admit Adobe’s new releases are always riddled with bugs, but if you wait a while before updating, it’s generally pretty smooth.”

All the bugs I posted have been there since 2014. I even sent Adobe my projects. They confirmed the bugs and told me it would be fixed in the next major release. Trust me there are more bugs then the ones I posted that still are not fixed. I wasted a lot of my time beta testing for Adobe. If they can’t fix it in over two years it is not going to get fixed. They need to scrap the Mercury Playback Engine and rewrite the code from scratch.

[Daniel Waldron]

Fair enough. I certainly understand your annoyance at the bugs. I find the advantages of Premiere far outweigh what are, for me anyway, minor bugs. But if it’s not the right software for you, the good thing is there are other options out there.