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47 pointsgnulinux99610 comments

> Get your fucking shit together, Avid. No one wants to have to edit in Premiere.

"Can Resolve stop sucking already? I don't want to go back to Premiere" must've been my most-said sentence last year. Good to know that the sentiment is the same on the Avid side.

This explains why all the TV people I know still use an Avid version from at least a decade ago...

What is so bad about Premiere? (I don't work in this industry. I am asking to learn something new.)

Sometimes, it's Adobe's legal sheanigans (like this one: https://old.reddit.com/r/AdobeIllustrator/comments/1cwryan/a..., since rescinded)

Sometimes, it's this: https://youtu.be/DL9FXjJPqbE

It is extremely buggy. I have a friend who works in video ending and is always sending me screenshots of how Premiere has tortured him today. Also recently saw a social media post of someone complaining how adding 5 PNG files to his project crashed Premiere, but not after auto-saving the project with the PNG files in it, essentially destroying the project.

Both Adobe Premiere and Adobe After Effects are buggy, unreasonably slow and very, VERY quirky pieces of software. I switched to Davinci Resolve a few years ago and my work output skyrocketed almost overnight, but while the performance it offers is something adobe engineers can only dream of, it still lacks certain features some pros need, so they remain trapped in the adobe/avid gulags.

what's bad about Resolve

File/Library management is crap for starters

Also keyframe handling are fiddly. Several years-long unresolved usability issues are in the forum like keyboard-selecting transitions etc.. The support forum is full of annoyances but BMD has mostly other priorities. I rarely complain as Resolve is still better than the rest for me

Premiere and Resolve are fine. You quickly get used to their workflows when transitioning. Avid users are way too up their own arse and these complaints just feel pointlessly elitist and out of touch. Wouldn't you much prefer something that crashes far less and is better integrated with modern workflows and codecs? I've cut films, shows, and docs on Resolve and Premiere and they're completely fine.

This issue sounds to me like the cache wasn't properly cleared. Importing a new file with the old file name would then accidentally re-use the old (low-res search-optimized) cached copy.

And yes, like the author suggests in the workaround, it's usually a good idea to change the filename. That also helps communicating that there was a change to your team members.

But if overeager caching is his biggest complaint, I'd say Avid is doing an excellent job ... There's so much more that could go wrong when handing TB-sized videos with GPU filters in real-time.

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