While not fully stable, the 2018 beta introduced for SAN/NAS storage environments, allowing editors on the same local network to access a central project file without locking.
Early versions of the 2018 release suffered from the "Audio Dropout" bug, where audio would randomly disappear during playback or export. While Adobe patched this relatively quickly, it highlighted the fragility of a cloud-based software cycle where updates can introduce new instability. adobe premiere pro 2018
Tests conducted on a mid-2017 iMac (3.4 GHz i5, 16GB RAM, Radeon Pro 570) showed: While not fully stable, the 2018 beta introduced
Premiere Pro excelled in ecosystem integration (After Effects, Audition, Media Encoder) but lagged in native codec support on Windows. While not fully stable