Finally given up on Adobe Premier Pro

Question

I have been working on a 10 minute HD commercial project, which would have taken me in iMove two hours, for a full 4 days in Premier Pro now (fool me). Getting messages such as, "no frame returned" and "no output generated" one moment and crashes the next (for goodness sake I am only stringing a few clips together, how difficvult can this be for a program?). One moment the sequence renders OK, the next moment the very same sequence exits when touching a clip for no reason whatsoever. Eventually it will render but then returns stretches of video showing just a black and white fields instead of movie footage. Then suddenly it crashes when moving the slider.
I am done now with CS3 for good. What a bad mistake having wasted my time with the persistent feeling that it could only be me not a quality Adobe product. Now I know the program sucks not me and I wished I had never installed it on my brand new, high-spec iMac in the first place.
I am resting all my hope now on CS5 which I have just odered, hoping that Adobe will have taken into account the latest Mac Hardware.
(I am only using Premier because of AfterEffects). If Adobe gets it wrong next time I will  be using Apple products only for video, full stop, and ask for my money back.

Answer 1

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I am amazed that there are so many problems at all in this day and age.
I'm not! I sort of would like that we all went back to the days of DOS (or CPM for that sake) when ALL programs had to be self-contained, with specific drivers to all the gear you had (eg. printer and so on). One problem now a days is "easy for whoever" and therefor the global drivers. Global means that one manufactorer of a program will install its priorities for whatever needed, while another manufacturer will try to install its "beneficial" properties.
Global then will sometimes mean conflicts, and that's why we, the users, unless we go a very specific way installing apps, will encouter problems.
Theoretically no problems yes, but all the SW companies are not working together.
Dag