Is there a Premier Pro trial anymore, and if so, where is it?

Question

Some of the experts in the hardware forum, after seeing my hardware, have recommended that I try out Premier Pro with the 30 day trial to see how it works with my workstation.  I went looking for the trial, and along the way, someone came online with a chat window and asked if he could help me.  I explained, and I could tell he was pointing me toward a Creative Cloud trial (something that I don't want to use).  I explained that I was looking for a Premier Pro trial, not the CC, and he said he undstood.  He put a link in his window, and I fired it off thinking I was where I needed to be.  Unfortunately, it downloaded the application for Creative Cloud, which is what I didn't need.
I also separately found files for the Premier Pro program and downloaded them (4 files, just under 2 gigabytes).  But those don't look like a trial, rather they look like replacement files for the purchased program.
I've looked all over the Adobe website, and read the entries I could find here on a Premier Pro trial, and still can't get to the trial
Can anyone here help me find the trial for Premier Pro?  Or if it doesn't exist, should I give the CC trial version a try, and will that be representative of how the program will perform if I buy the Premier Pro.
Terry Quinn
p.s.  Adobe sure seems to make it hard to evaluate and buy their product.

Answer 1

Mark,
Thanks for the very valuable information on this.  I agree strongly with your comments at the end of your post that the nomenclature and how it is used in the Adobe website is confusing.  Your discussion and notes above will help me a lot.  People who work with this product line all the time are probably asking themselves, "what's so confusing about this?"  But that is because their knowledge of the product nomenclature has built up over the years. and it is all brand new to me.
Here is how I got here.  I've worked for years with sometimes buggy software (Pinnacle Studio) that got the job done.  So I was looking for new and stable editing software, and maybe might have gotten around to Adobe Premiere Elements. I bought a new, fairly powerful HP workstation.  When I tried running a trial version of Cyberlink's PowerDirector on it, it worked pretty well, but locked up occasionally. Cyberlink has responsive tech support, but they were concerned that the fact that I was using a "Workstation" might have caused the lockup (??). Later they suggested it might have been the fact that the workstation had a nVidia Quadro 2000 video card.  So that issue (the lockups) hasn't been resolved.
Somehow through searches on the Internet, I ended up on your hardware forum, and after giving me advice, some of the people said there that I'd be a lot happier just moving up to Adobe Premier Pro or Creative Cloud, which would be much more stable, and benefit in performance from the specs on my workstation.  They also suggested running the trial.  So I decided to take a serious look at it, to insure it would solve the lockup problem. 
And that was a month ago. While I've not worked it every day, I've been in and out of your websites often since then, trying to find a way to try the software with my hardware.  Maybe that is tidbit to pass along to your Marketing department.
One more question:  I'm looking for a stable and fast video editing program that can do some basic functions, like slow-mo and fast speed, insert pictures into videos, crop and re-grow to full size video clips, moving menus, maybe picture in picture, and some way of normalizing sound levels across a whole video.  All of that is available in the Cyberlink program, so I'm expecting that it would also be in a basic Premiere Pro program.  But on my search through your websites, I thought I saw something about Creative Suite (CS6, right?) that was more like an add-in to Premiere Pro.  But in your message above, it sounds like CS6 is just a version number for Premiere Pro. Can you clarify, perhaps suggeting what I should buy if this works?
Thanks,
Terry