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AndrewTheGreat
AndrewTheGreat
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April 19, 2026

Premiere 26.2 pixel aspect ratio bug

  • April 19, 2026
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Got this today. My sequence pixel aspect ration is 1.0, the footage I use has 1,7. Normally Premiere has no problems with that and define pixel aspect ration correctly. No the interpret footage says the PAR is unknown and brings the clip into the project in this state:

 

A fix is manual interpreting. Version 26.0.2 had no problem with the same file.

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      xoxZAPPAxox
      xoxZAPPAxox
      Participant
      May 11, 2026

      Just for clarification

      Right click the clip in the Project Panel then Modify>Interpret Footage>Pixel Aspect Ratio>Conform to: Square Pixels (1.0). (If you can actually get it to work. I first had to turn off my Streaming monitor in Preferences>Playback before it would interpret the footage?)

      Fixed the footage but the frame was still wide. if this happens...

      You might also have to right click the sequence in the Project Panel then Sequence Settings>General>Video>Pixel Aspect Ratio> Square Pixels (1.0)

      Hope this helps.

      Jay Kaslo
      Jay Kaslo
      Participant
      April 24, 2026

      Having the same problem. Hopefully this gets fixed/patched in next Premiere update.  (Never had this problem before in Premiere 2025… any footage I brought in was always interpreted as square pixels 1:1.)

      jamieclarke
      Community Manager
      jamieclarkeCommunity Manager
      Community Manager
      April 20, 2026

      Hi ​@AndrewTheGreat -   Thanks for submitting your bug report. We need a few more details to try to help with the issue.  Please see, How to Report a Problem?

      Do you have this issue in Premiere version 26.2?

      Can you send the media file to jamiec@adobe.com so that we can take a look.

      AndrewTheGreat
      AndrewTheGreatAuthor
      Known Participant
      April 20, 2026

      Hi, ​@jamieclarke 

      Here’s the file, but you can use any that has a non-standard AR: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10FJ_CROBcW5N8k0tH-maxmHScQuatIfS/view?usp=drive_link

      The file is ex-stock, so I don’t mind posting it publicly.

      The issue is present in Pr 26.2 and is absent in Pr 26.0.2. Several people could reproduce it.

      • Issue: Premiere 26.2 does not automatically define pixel aspect ration and squeezes a video with the non-standard PAR in a 1.0 PAR timeline whereas Premiere 26.0.2 does it correctly.
      • Steps to Reproduce: launch Premiere, create a project and a 1080p timeline, import the footage in question and add it on the timeline. Even after you import it you will see that something is wrong with the clip AR even in the project bin.
      • Expected Result: the clips aspect ratio should be defined correctly, it should not be squeezed in the project bin or on the timeline.
      • Actual Result: The video is squeezed both in the project bin and on the timeline.
      • Screen Recording: 

         

      • Premiere Version: 26.2(issue), 26.0.2 (no issue)
      • Operating System: Win11 25h2.
      • GPU Driver (Windows only): NV GR 596.21 (Studio gives the same result)
      • Video Format: Any.

      Workaround: go to the clip preferences and interpret it as 1.0 aspect ratio.

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        AndrewTheGreat
        AndrewTheGreatAuthor
        Known Participant
        April 19, 2026
        1. 26.0.2 for comparison:

         

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