OS Updates

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Some really good advice above.
I know of one broadcaster at the moment telling in-house and external providers not to update Mac OS as it will potentially stop the way FCPX works for them.

I’ve currently got a “discussion” going on Twitter (X) with Adobe Support. They want me to dissable all plug-ins (that has worked on previous versions of PPro), as this potentially will stop the “out of memory” error on exporting from PPro (on a 128GB Ram system).. 😳🧐😱

Back in the old days of Linear Suites, one manufacturer would often blame another, if there was sync issues or similar.

Adobe is no better in that regard.

As others are saying: Do not update in the middle of a big project.
More to the point: If it ain’t broke, do NOT fix it!

Should add:
Do NOT forget that if you are a single user (freelancer/SME), Adobe has killed the cloud for video products in Creative Cloud. So do NOT save your projects in that local-only-folder, if your Mac suddenly dies. Instead have it on an external drive or shared folder with a true Cloud provider (OneDrive, Google Drive, iCloud all could work for you).

Atb
Mads

[Robert Gilbert]

Thank you very much, Mads!

[Merlin Vandenbossche]

Same advice as everyone else: no more updates mid project.

Adobe only supports three versions of Mac OS at every time. Generally I like to stay middle road when it comes to OS. Right now this means Ventura for Mac OS. This way I wont fall out the boat whenever a new cycle of updates for Premiere is dropped. It worked out fine for me since.

I do like to explore new features frequently though. This new release bringing the enhance speech, next one probably the label colors and marker improvements. Those are things that do matter I believe. I also find the 2024 versions to be stable on Apple Silicon. And usually more bugs are fixed than created. The foregoing beta program has really improved feature sets and bug behaviour a lot for new releases. General rule for me though: I always stay within a year cycle which does not require a project file update. And I always stress test a new update with common tasks before fully commiting. When updating: always clear cache and reset preferences before going into a project. Creating an entirely new project in the new version and copying over all assets and sequences has also worked wonders for me in assuring stability. These are things you could try to remedy your odd behaviour. A full clean install of OS and apps might be an ultimate solution too.

[Robert Gilbert]

Thank you very much.