So I recently graduated college, and thus my free access to the Adobe suite I had through the school is no more. However, I do a decent bit of video editing, so it would be really great if I could "re-obtain" Premiere Pro, without having to pay for adobe's stupid over priced subscription bs.
However, my knowledge of acquiring otherwise paid material online for free pretty much starts and stops at sketchy sites for streaming movies/shows. So how would one, like myself, go about getting Premiere Pro, pro-bono, without either giving my laptop a terminal disease or my internet provider sending me death threats ?
If you have any issues feel free to reach out. I’ll try to help
I did everything with getting a vpn and Qbittorrent, but now with multiple torrents of Premiere (for mac) I've downloaded, when I go to open the file, it brings me to a window with an adobe creative cloud icon and a folder labeled "extras."
When I click the adobe icon, it brings up another window that has the icon, with a button bellow it that says "patch or drag", and when I push that button, it loads, says "completed" but then doesn't do anything. I can't find any instructions on how to actually open Premiere now that it's downloaded, and I'm totally lost. Again, this exact thing has happened despite trying multiple versions of Premiere for Mac from the site you suggested
Looking at the comments on the most recent Mac version it seems broken installers is a common issue for Mac with premiere. I’m on Windows so it’s a bit different
One user left these instructions:
HOW TO INSTALL Adobe Premiere CC 2019 v13.0.1:
A few other users noted before this comment that they were able to get it to run installing from terminal.
It's not working. I feel like the issue comes around step 9, as nothing actually installs, all I get is the precursor screen to the install, where adobe wants my email/info to verify my account, which I obviously don't have, so I quit the installer, but then the "patch or drag" app doesn't seem to be able to do anything because nothing has been installed.
maybe I'm just too stupid to do it correctly, or maybe it's broken and won't even work that way anymore idk. I feel like you need a computer science degree to do this stuff correctly, and I like to consider myself someone fairly competent at figuring out computer issues and following directions on how to do things.
Hmm do you happen to have this particular version downloaded? 13.0.1?
Mac torrenting csn be sometimes a little trial snd error. I was on apple flr 10 years before just recently switching back.
Im assuming you did the show package contents bit in the app13.0.1.dmg? That seems to be the main way someone got it working.
Huh, I found a torrent of the program uploaded just a few days ago, and did everything it's instructions said and now it seems to have worked perfectly. I guess it was just a matter of finding one new enough that the install program was still working.
Regardless, thanks for all your help and advice. I've already figured out/learned a lot just from tonight, and now seem to have to program I was after. Thanks a ton! :fidel-salute:
Awesome! Glad you got it!