Since installing Premiere 2018, I have had nothing but trouble. So far:
1. I had my first crash/hang within 30-seconds of opening Premiere when trying to open a previous project
2. Project conversions (from 2017) frequently show "media offline" even though THEY ARE RIGHT THERE WHERE THEY'VE ALWAYS BEEN
3. Missing Dolby Support - this a HUGE problem as it now means many of my files are no longer compatible (and we're talking 10's of thousands of files so transcoding is impractical
4. Had one incident where the mouse would not show on the Premiere window (but would for the task bar and any other non-Adobe Window
5. After Effects titles show as offline
6. Random MP3/M4A import/generic errors
Not only having problems with 2018, installing that has actually caused problems for CC2017 too, something that worked fine before.
The problem I'm now having in CC2017 is again offline media. This is with projects that were finished in CC2017, not converted, now won't reopen properly. Relinking media will give me a "the selected file does not contain audio media used by clip references". Apparently this might be down to the Dolby codec but as CC2017 supports this, it should work fine (after all, I edited the entire project with it before). Anyway, I import a different clip just to get the prompt that says "install the dolby codec" but even after this, relinking the other clips still brings up the "selected file/clip references messages".
So yes, this is truly awful for someone like me that needs access to a huge amount of past projects. I could accept a buggy 2018 but not a now buggy 2017 too. My question is does any one know how to fix the last part of my problem.
Unless I can get this fixed, I will be cancelling my subscription early, you can't charge for software that's this bug-ridden.