Premier Pro Should be Recalled & Refunded

Today I had to deal with the "peach" that is Adobe Premier Pro, ah hell let me just call a spade and spade and say "rotten, festering peach", which is probably being too good.

For those of you who have never used the Premier line of products from Adobe, what you are looking at is a pretty generic NLA video editing system that is highly overpriced and sorely lacking on features (especially when you compare it with some of the Open Source or Apple NLA editors out there). With ever new verseion that is released I am shocked by how much this application doesn't change and yet somehow manages to get work and become more and more unusable. Worse yet is that their latest version, Premier Pro, borderlines on what I could call "incompetentcy", its just a horrible application.

Why is it so horrible? Well aside from having an interface that is even worse than the preview versions of Premier, such as their project loader which is like hidding a big brick wall at 80KMPH right when you start the application, and a long standing bug where the program doesn't work with QuickTime or QTPro properly (the short story here is just don't use Premier for any QT work, it fails to properly compress the data anywhere near as good as QTPro can), the latest bit of stupidity is its inability to work with any MPeg4 codec. This doesn't just mean that your staple of DivX or Xvid wont work, but the same goes for your QuickTime MPEG4 codec and Techsmith (Camtasia). To see what I mean, just load in a MPEG4 file into premier, drop it into the timeline and export out to a new file, you will end up with a bloated file because Premier Pro refuses to use or work with the codecs properly. There is something just not right with watching a file that should be 100Mb end up being 16GB (thats right, gigs) because poor retarded "timmy" (aka Premier Pro) is too stupid to work like every other video editing application on the market.

Cudos to you Adobe and to the development team of Premier Pro, you have managed to successfully market and sell a lemon onto the market and didn't have to recall it in embarassment like you did with InDesign 1.0. Although if you ask me, I think you guys should recall this lame duck and either get a real version of the program out on the market or refund everyone who bought this god awful program their money back and adjust your marketing to say "well it sort of works, provided you don't want to do most things that an end user would want and expect from a program like this".