Welcome to this week's "Premiere updates that broke something which worked perfectly": I used to be able to select a bunch of clips in my timeline > Right click or KeyboardShortcut > Set To Frame Size. This would make 4K clips (for example) in my 1080p sequence shrink so they say "50%" in Effect Controls...perfect for most of the clips, except the ones I want to crop into (up to 200% losslessly, thanks to them being 4K. This is literally the main benefit of 4K workflows). Now the ability to 'undo' the Set To Frame Size is GONE. Yet somehow we have a THIRD option now.. How did this get so complicated and yet somehow completely remove the main feature we needed? There's no way to untick Set To Frame Size (sorry - just checked and it's actually renamed now to Fit To Frame, by which Adobe meant 'Shrink To Frame' because there's now a 'Fill To Frame' which means 'Expand To Frame' and the third option is 'Scale To Frame Size'...oh my gosh.... what a mess.)   Please just return everything to how it was. It was perfect before. With just 2 options. Or at LEAST make Shrink To Frame Size a toggle/ ticked or unticked thing in the menu like it used to be, so I don't have to individually go through tons of clips I shrunk in my sequence and manually go to Effect Controls and one by one type into the Scale field "100%" for all the ones I want to return to original size... Aurgh. ... View more

It blows my mind how AE can be such a mature and widely used product and STILL somehow doesn't support thumbnails in the Project panel?! - like not even the option to enable them. What in the world are the design team thinking? Every app including Adobe (Premiere, Photoshop, etc) have all had thumbnails since the dawn of time.  But in AE, I have to scroll through a list of potentially hundreds of images, individually clicking on each of them one by one and previewing them to see what they are.  So incredible that in 2024 this is still lacking. ... View more

How is this going to be fixed? I'm sick of waiting so many years for this massive bug to be addressed.  Premiere advertises itself as 'unleashing the power of your GPU' but fails to mention it completely messes up the video doing so. Software only is fine:   CUDA and OpenCL are both:  much lighter (what the hell?) Edit: After posting this, I hover my cursor over these images and they dim (as a mouse-over function) and they actually match brightness more I think when the GPU accelerated one is dimmed by this forum software)  the blur on the logo is cropped at the top and bottom (totally unprofessional looking) I put the software only one up again for closer comparison. Both exactly the same frame from the timeline.   Latest version of Premiere. Latest RTX3090 drivers. I'm annoyed because this has been consistently plaguing Premiere for many years. ... View more

Hello, I can see this issue has plagued Bridge across many versions for many years. How can it be so troublesome to literally just apply a star rating to a media file?! I've tried the purge thing. I've tried Stable and Beta versions of Bridge. I've tried changing the keyboard shortcut. The only way to get keyboard shortcuts for ratings to work is to first pick a rating using the mouse. Only then will keyboard shortcuts work MAYBE - and only on that specific file. Soon as I switch away from Bridge for a sec and return to it - shortcuts for ratings stop working again and I have to use the mouse. Really, really, really annoying and getting in the way of me doing my work. ... View more

72GB is what it estimated for "Collecting files and copy to new location" That's too big to upload so I chose Consolidate and transcode, with 8GB estimated project size, but it's literally 72GB (coincidentally?) so what's up here?   ... View more

I'm making an animated GIF and I can't even control the file size. I speak on behalf of most customers of Adobe Media Encoder when I say we want control over how video formats are encoded. You pitch AME to be a professional tool, with more features than your free competitors, yet I can't even see an estimate of the file size when converting to an animated gif, let alone change the compression ratio. If you want to catch up with 2023, take a look at open source freeware 'Screen 2 gif' which really makes me wonder why I pay for AME. It's a very different app, but more reliable and does the job it set out to do much better. I can control so much more HOW it encodes - which at the end of the day, is the ONE job AME has.  I need to create a gif for Twitter, and limit is 15mb. AME gives me literally no option to make my very short, simple, low res, minimal colours gif a smaller size. Literally zero control over compression.   Please just speak to us about how we want to convert videos and animations, because you're still pretty far off the mark, even after 15 years and a hefty subscription fee. Thanks ... View more

I swear I used to be able to click the Type tool, click and drag a text box, type something, then centre it (for example) and if I wanted to widen the bounding box - on both sides, not just the side I drag - I just hold Shift (or was it Alt?) I also swear when I finished typing, I could just hit Esc and immediately it takes me out of typing mode and the resizing handles would appear on my box, allowing me to resize it. Am I getting confused with Photoshop? I've used PP so many years, if I'm mixing this up I must be going senile. Either way, PP should definitely work this way because it's SO DUMB having to resize the bounding box only on one side, then move the entire thing the oppposite direction so it's correctly centred again (then probably realising that it's now too big and you repeat the process 5 times when you want the bounding box to simply move equally in both sides width-wise (or height-wise) Really annoying. I mean, currently those keyboard modifier keys just have zero effect. What a waste. ... View more

There are so many workarounds and all of them are completely insane and even with a ton of steps, don't work with picture in picture videos unless they're rectangular. Literally just need a "Add stroke" or "Add border" effect where you simply pick the colour, and and pick the thickness of the frame / border.  So simple. Thousands of us want it, and have done for a long time. Surely cannot be that complicated to do? ... View more

I swear this is one of the biggest and oldest bugs in Premiere. Depending on the type of graphics being used, this can make cross dissolves / fading in & out unusable when CUDA / hardware acceleration is enabled (who wants to edit with 'Software only'? that's not why I spent so much money on my computer and Adobe software - to be transported back to the year 2010 performance wise) See the attached video, how with CUDA hardware acceleration enabled, the first frame (at about 5% opacity) looks like it's about 60% opacity - so basically impossible to get a normal looking fade in. See how my title just very suddenly appears like it was edited horribly by some cheap app on a phone.   Edit: Here's my comparison of results exporting - Software only vs CUDA enabled: https://youtu.be/XfV56jhKmv0 ... View more