Hello everyone,

after looking into both technical viability and current market needs, it’s unfortunately become obvious that we’re not going to be able to act on this request in the near future.

I wanted thank everyone for the considerate and passionate discussion on this thread. This has been a great example of a meaningful conversation over a controversial subject that I don’t take for granted.

Cheers,
Patrick

We know (and love) the Knights, thanks!

For consistency, PPro maintains control of its keyboard shortcuts, letting panels override them only when active; this is unlikely to change.

Happily, Newtek already provides the ability to stream PPro’s output, via their Transmit plugin.

https://www.newtek.com/software/adobe-creative-cloud/

While capturing from such streams isn’t in our near-term plans, PPro’s APIs make it possible for third parties to write Record plugins to capture streamed output, into media files.

We’re glad you’re using Productions!

We understand why that sounds like a good idea; here’s why we don’t do that:

Ingest settings are disabled in the Production Settings dialog because they are designed to apply to a single computer at a time. To use Ingest Settings first close your Production and create a standalone project that is saved outside of the Production folder. Set your desired Ingest Settings and import your media. After all ingest operations have finished, save your project and close it. Open your Production and use the Add Project command to bring the project file into your Production. From there you can use the ingested clips normally.

We’re glad you’ve been using PPro so long!

That behavior was changed because of multiple requests, and is unlikely to change back.

As you rightly describe, if you paused and pressed a camera number, you’d get an edit. If you selected the wrong camera (a frequent occurrence, based on the feedback we received), you’d need to undo the edit.

The “new” (vintage 2013) behavior provides more “audition several cameras” flexibility, before the user intentionally makes the edit.

[I wonder whether creative re-designation of keyboard shortcuts, might not let you put together behavior closer to what you’re looking for…]

PPro’s ExtendScript API operates outside the Undo stack, so it’s very unlikely that we’ll be able to make this improvement, before PPro moves to UXP extensibility (Sometime Soon™).

We have no plans to go back.

Good idea, but…

Not every operation can be accelerated by GPUs, and these are (currently) among them. The gains available are more than offset by the costs of moving the necessary data to the GPU, for processing.

While infinite videos may indeed be in our future, for now PPro timelines are limited to 24hrs.

The best way for Adobe to understand and eliminate crashes is to get a crash report, containing all available information.

Your work has already been interrupted, by the crash. I don’t see how we’re breeching any trust, as we respect your choice of whether or not to send us that information; you’re also provided the option of not being asked again, to avoid further interruptions.

While we understand the desire, and plan to provide this functionality once PPro moves to UXP-based extensibility, It’s unlikely that this feature will make it into ExtendScript extensibility.

Adobe will continue to rely on the subscription model.

Also, we don’t sell transition effect packs; many third party options are available!

We’ve taken your “add Turkish” request under consideration.

We’re glad you like Productions!

Allowing auto-save to be set to “same as project” would generate loads of duplicate IDs.

We understand your interest, but will not be spending development effort resurrecting old formats. PPro’s APIs allow others to develop that support, as needed.

Sorry you ran into trouble.

We’re going to continue improving our products.

It sounds like you have Creative Cloud set to automatically update when available; if you turn that off, it won’t update your installed applications, unless you specifically request it.

Also, minor version updates don’t require deletion of existing preferences. The easiest way that could have happened is that, when uninstalling previous versions, you selected the “remove preferences” option (or it was somehow selected for you)…? Regardless, as mentioned, you can avoid all updates if you like, by disabling Auto Update within the Creative Cloud application’s preferences.

While unexpected problems do occur, we don’t ship updates if they don’t contain improvements. The export complete prompt was introduced specifically because of user request, though it’s proven broadly unpopular, and we’re removing it.

While we understand the desire, Adobe has no plans to add DVD authoring back into our product line.

That’s a fine idea, but one we’re unlikely to implement as part of Productions. PPro works with nearly every media asset management system available, many of which do user-based privilege management.

Glad you’re using Productions!

We don’t want to eliminate the user’s flexibility to save only those projects they want saved.

From Productions’ lead developer:

Since the ’Save all” command is keyboard mappable, the user could assign “Cmd/Ctrl + S” to “Save All” instead of “Save”, and get the functionality they want, today.

It’s unlikely that cue sheets will make it into PPro, any time soon.

However, I wrote the CueSheeter sample panel several years ago, and it’s served as the basis for several customized cue sheet exporters. Anyone experienced with JavaScript could likely modify it, for your specific purposes.

https://github.com/Adobe-CEP/Samples/tree/master/CueSheeter