shooternz wrote:
What I do see is... MAC over representation in the issues and that is a perception I have had previously and not just at update time.
I didn't know anyone was using Media Access Control to edit in Premiere. Hm. How the hell do you edit in Premiere with your MAC address?
(FWIW, to the clueless amongst us (ahem, shooter) - it's Mac, not MAC. It's not an acronym. :-))
I also have the perception that MAC users are less likely to offer assistance to other MAC users and I figure that MACS are maybe less user friendly to tweakability by average users if required.
I would guess that many MAC users in a pro areas have no issues at all.
"All generalizations are false!"
As regards beta testing...I have said it before... Adobe should concentrate on stability of current features and less feature creep development. IMHO
That should go without saying. However, you can't stagnate your own product if your goal is to sell more copies of it. So some balancing act needs to happen with stability of existing vs feature creep. As Richard pointed out: new codecs are creeping into the mix, new presentation resolutions (4K, 8K, etc), as well as new file formats from cameras. Adobe could just ignore all of that and focus 100% of their attention on polishing Pr up, which would likely make most of their existing users very happy. But the cost of that is: potential missed sales.
"Balance, Daniel-san!"
FWIW - my PPRO (Win 7) is problem and issue free. Solid as a rock... as it has been for many versions.
Good thing you weren't editing spanned AVCHD clips in CS6, huh? Because that was a version of Pr that I paid for that I could never use until the very end of its run. A bit on the annoying side, and it had nothing to do with the platform I was running it on.