Adobe Premiere Pro Reviews

It's not an easy to use program and can be confusing.

It uses a lot of ram memory and must run good equipment so that your computer does not slow down.

It is a program that has high monthly fees.

Have to use the entire creative suite of products.

Can have some performance issues. Need a strong computer.

Learning curve is high.

GPU utilization- While Premiere utilizes the GPU occasionally and during exports, it's mostly a CPU intensive program. Unless you have a powerful CPU, your computer may struggle to playback high-resolution footage.

The Graphics panel is very useful and has come a long way but still needs some work. I need more templates available to me since I'm paying monthly for this service.

Like most Adobe products, they err on the side of complexity and professional use rather than hiding the buttons from the newbies. This can be overwhelming but like I mentioned previously, YouTube is your friend and can teach you more in a few hours than 10 books on the subject.

Working with the export presets can be daunting if you don't really understand them. I feel like there are a ton of choices that most people gloss over but maybe that's just me. I almost always export as H.264 - 4K resolution (3840 x 2160) and because the files I'm working with are 1:1 the export usually doesn't take a ridiculous time to render.

There are a lot of third party add-ons. It would be nice if PP offered more filters.

Sometimes trying to get a video to load into the Source Monitor, it doesn't want to work.

Export media occasionally fails.

PP used to offer a whole bevy of export media options. It was nice! Then they updated the program and took all those away. Not happy about that.

Making sure updates are well-vetted

Has a learning curve and no "intro".

It can be overly complicated for basic cutting edits.

Has a tendency to have trouble with Mac updates.

Can crash if projects get too intensive - requires a relatively beefy computer too.

Long render/export times - Stick to Adobe Media encoder, don't export straight from this program unless it's a relatively small or simple file.

Expensive for amateurs or first timers - there are no options to buy it outright, only to subscribe and pay a monthly fee.

One thing in general that Adobe could improve on is the user interface. It tends to feel a bit archaic as most Non-Linear Editors do. Many of the features are not intuitive and still holdover from a bygone era of moviola editing. That said, it is a far cry from Avid and certainly is a standard in the industry and has been for years - it could just use some updating with more modern features.

Adobe certainly makes updating a pain in the rear. Though the separate software that allows you to update all CC apps is relatively easy - for years they have made it more difficult than it needs to be to work back and forth between old versions and new. This is an industry where users are slow to update - so they could be more accommodating about that.

In general, I wish Adobe would get over their disdain for Apple and support more apple codecs - prores, etc. Let's work together, people! It's better for everyone.

Takes time to get used to if you have never touched video software.

Adobe suite is an expensive program.

Should come with a tutorial for basics.

The videos take up a ton of space on my computer, and I would love to store in Adobe to access.

I'd like to see it have better YouTube integration. Currently, it can export a video that's optimized for YouTube, but perhaps a further integration would be nice. Like being able to export from Premiere Pro and upload to YouTube in one action, removing a step.

Being able to rearrange the windows more easily would be nice. Currently, they can move around, but after a certain degree, you start fighting against the pre-existing templates. It eats up time trying to get it to look the way you want it to. With the reality of many workplaces having multiple monitors, being able to grab a portion of the interface and throw it onto another screen without it fighting you would be nice.

Limited captioning functionalities - makes captioning quite tedious

Multicam sequences can get cumbersome

I would like more of Adobe Audition built into Premiere.

Premiere's audio editing feature is very bare-bones, and not very intuitive. It's likely trying to get you to use Audition, but that can be really annoying when all you want to do is fix a simple hiss.

Inability to place effects on the entire specific tracks (ie. on V2) rather than over-top tracks.

The audio synchronization feature could be updated to be faster and more intuitive, but overall it's a handy feature

Bringing the encoding/exporting function up to par with Adobe Media Encoder would be a good update to see.

The biggest knock I have is stability. After prolonged use, the platform becomes less responsive and often quits.

The number of steps you have to go through before you even start editing. In FCP, you can start editing almost immediately.

The fonts are too small. The software was made for someone with excellent vision.

I imagine that a lot of work has gone into the UI for this program, but I still have to wonder whether or not it could be any more beginner-friendly. It takes me a few minutes to get my bearings when I start a new project. The UI isn't terrible, but I guess that's why this is the "Pro" version.

The workflow took me a while to get used to. Is it confusing? For me, it was. It seems like there is one panel too many. I imagine there is some science behind it, but to me, it's a bit crowded visually noisy. Perhaps it makes perfect sense to those who use this program to directly earn a living.

There is quite a bit of a learning curve when it comes to learning Premiere Pro. I definitely suggest reading up on the basics or taking a starter class because muddling my first year through the platform without any assistance was hard and involved quite a bit of trial and error.

The platform itself is large, so much so that it takes up a good chunk of my hard drive. You will also need space for the Media Encoder and all your files. Keep this in mind especially if you have other Creative Cloud applications installed.

Confusing interface for newcomers. Adobe attempts to ease users in with some video tutorials, but it is a pro-level application.

Resource hog. Things can slow down, even with a powerful computer. Would like to see it optimized more.

Additional export options. Premiere Pro has several export options, but there are some holes in their pre-configured list.

I think this is more of a user issue when I was first starting with Premiere Pro, but I wish there were sample filter videos to show you the results of each filter's functionality. It was mostly trial and error when I was a new user of the program.

When saving the video for the first time, the name of the previous video saved is always left in the naming field. If you aren't paying attention, you end up naming the video incorrectly.

Preview playback can be difficult to pre-render at times depending on a larger file.

A few crashes that ended important projects, although not permanently, due to the software's auto-save feature.

Slicing without a keyboard shortcut can be difficult or tedious to use, however, there is a shortcut!

Adobe Premiere could be improved by allowing easier adjustment of the user interface. Being able to scale the different screens quicker could make it easier to edit the interface layout to the size specifics I want.

With new updates it would help if Premiere gave you tutorial video links to show the new updates in the newest versions. This helps to promote new functions to help improve videos.

A feature I would love to see added to Premiere would be the ability to change to a low resolution mode for editing. A lot of times when editing it stalls out or freezes because the file types become so large.

When working with Premiere I find that it is sometimes hard to choose which export file to use, a cheat sheet that says which model works best and which file type and resolution works. It makes a lot of assumptions that everyone is a professional.

None to report - I think it is an excellent tool.

I would like to see it integrate with a cloud-based video review systems like Wipster, Vimeo or Frame i/o

This is a difficult program to use, so end users should have advanced knowledge of multimedia, video production or graphic design. Need a 'light' version for novice/non-techy end users

As with most video programs, the rendering time can always be improved. Adobe Premiere does a solid job, but it typically monopolizes your machine's RAM and you can't do much else while a render is underway

All those features are a bit of a double-edged sword. As is frequently a criticism with Adobe products, the learning curve is steep. But that's the nature of the beast with professional-level software.

There have been many times when I've gone to tweak the volume levels of a clip or a track using keyframes, only to find that some setting has disabled keyframes for audio tracks. This has resulted in needing to search online for a way to re-enable the keyframes. It's not a bug -- this is a clear choice by Adobe as they want to help make sure you don't make dumb mistakes after having invested a lot of time in a complex project, but I have still found it annoying.

One of the pros (flexibility in organization) can also be a con -- I would love to see Adobe encourage MORE organization right from the start, as often I'll start a project and then realize "Oh my goodness, I have to do a ton of cleanup here in order to keep 100's of files straight."

Premiere tends to be buggy, particularly when new releases roll out. It can be very frustrating to get far along in a project only to encounter a bug that prevents you from using a tool or file format you need to. Rolling back to previous versions is possible but gets messy.

Subscription to the Creative Cloud: I don't mind this in a professional setting, but it can get very pricey for a casual user

Can be pretty resource heavy, however, that's the nature of most any NLE that is powerful