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:

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.

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

Thanks for the detailed advice. I'll see if my dumb ass can do it all successfully lol.

Thanks for these alternatives, good to keep in mind. I might consider switching over to Da Vinci Resolve if I decide to try something new instead of Premiere, since I've heard good things about it