Dear Adobe,
I just got back from filming 2 projects in China and wanted to start organizing my footage.
I started in Prelude, thinking that would be a great place to start, but it was SO SLOW. It took a full day for it to just register all my files for one 3.5 TB project. After that it kept crashing when I scrolled through the files. When I see your tutorials the projects you "display" have maybe 20 files. I've got 6,000.... did you test for real world scenarios?
Now to Premiere:
I got fed up with Prelude so I brought the folders into Premiere and figured I'd just do my best to organize directly in the NLE. Its a nightmare! I was able to start, but the moment I switched the playback engine to CUDA, instead of Software, there was no refresh in the monitor window. I cannot scrub footage or anything. The program often freezes up for minutes at a time when I try to select a file.
I am running a very powerful computer that has NO issues running other software, including Premiere Pro CC. That said, I just started a new project, loosing a whole day of work doing so, to revert back to CC from your 2014 release.
I am a fan of your Suite, but you seriously have to vet your programs better before releasing. It is embarrassing that Prelude is so clunky and Premiere 2014 cannot handle a simple switch in playback engine. I even restarted my computer and the program numerous times to give it a chance to "find itself," but still nothing.
Can someone please acknowledge this? I've read a number of posts stating very similar situations - that any decent sized projects choke Adobe's software.
SYSTEM:
OSX 10.8.4
Dual Xeons 2.5 GHz
64 GB RAM
Dual GTX 580s (3 GB RAM each)
12 TB internal array
4 TB LaCie (eSata) with raw footage
256 GB SSD dedicated for OSX
Thanks for any help you can offer!
