Roger Fingas
Adobe has issued an update for Premiere Pro, its video editing suite, solving a glitch that in some cases destroyed the internal speakers of MacBook Pros.
The update, 13.0.3, is being pushed out through Adobe's Creative Cloud service. "Fixed issues with Premiere Pro that reduce noise interaction and help minimize possible impact," release notes say.
MacBook Pro users impacted by the bug would suddenly hear loud and distorted audio, often when they were working on a video's soundtrack. Though the company suggested disabling mic input as a possible workaround, at least some users continued to encounter trouble — potentially at high expense.
Adobe alerted customers to an impending update earlier this week, saying that it was "aware" of the bug and "working on a solution that will help users mitigate risk."
The company hasn't indicated, however, if it will be willing to compensate people with damaged MacBooks, whether they've already paid for repairs or not.
Late last year Adobe was hit with a $5 million lawsuit from a Premiere Pro user whose video library was wiped when he simply wanted to clear his cache.
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An update to Premiere Pro on my Windows based system is available today, so this bug may affect all platforms. And yes,for the apple fan boys reading this, windows sucks ;-)
Honestly Professionals who got their Macbook speakers blown need to sue Adobe. What sort of service is this. If this doesnt encourage you to adopt FCPX ,nothing will.
Shouldn't there be an OS or even SMC/firmware level protection for the speakers?
I say this is primarily Apples fault.
The amplifier circuitry that drives the speakers should have had some sort of protection built in to limit the maximum amount of power that could be sent to the speakers.