Adobe Premiere Community FAQ Index

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Getting Started

• Getting Started in Premiere Pro (User Guide)
• FAQ: How do I learn Premiere Pro?
• FAQ: How to Design a Workflow Pipeline for Premiere Pro

Installation Issues

• FAQ: How do I reinstall a previous version of Premiere Pro?
• FAQ: Prior major releases of Premiere, Audition, Prelude and AME have been removed
• FAQ: how to save your customizations and update Premiere Pro between major versions
• FAQ: UPDATING to PrPro 2023: HOW TO!

Project Set Up

• FAQ: How do I choose the right sequence settings?
• FAQ: Deploying and enforcing custom preferences in Adobe Premiere Pro

Import

• FAQ: How to work with Variable Frame Rate (VFR) media in Premiere Pro?
• FAQ: Why do large H.264 Files from OBS Fail to Import?
• FAQ: How do I import a Photoshop file into the Essential Graphics panel?
• FAQ: How to create a custom proxy preset for vertical video in Premiere Pro
• FAQ: Batch processing files in Photosohop for use in Premiere Pro
• The difference between Intraframe (like ProRes) and Long GOP (like H.264) codecs
• MP4 Problems? MP4 Is NOT a Codec!
• FAQ: Watermark Premiere Pro Proxy Files
• Premiere Pro support for Blackmagic RAW is now available

Editing

• FAQ: What do through edits mean?
• FAQ: Why does audio or video not go to the track where I drop it?
• can't drag video into timeline premiere cc
• favorite keyboard shortcuts
• Is there a way to ripple delete all these spaces at once?
• FAQ: How do I move the Playhead frame by frame?
• FAQ: How to crop video and change width and height – visual tips and tricks

Multicam

• FAQ: Multicam Best Practices by Jarle Leirpoll
• Update: Cut In Multi-Cams as Nests or Individual Clips is back!
• How To: 4K and 2K "Punch In" Multicam Editing

Color

• FAQ: Viewing Gamma Choices Explained
• FAQ: How do I add LUTs to Premiere Pro?
• FAQ: Premiere Pro 2022 Color Management for Log/RAW Media
• FAQ: How to choose "Viewing Gamma" in Premiere's Preferences
• FAQ: Setting up for HDR work in Premiere 2020 [updated fall 2020]
• "Why does my footage look darker in Premiere?" Color Q&A
• FAQ: Changes to RED raw default color space in Premiere Pro
• A User Guide: Color Correction in HDR in Premiere 2022
• Removal of Native Tangent Control Plugin
• How to Set Monitors for HDR work in Premiere Pro 2022?

Effects and Transitions

• FAQ: Why can't I add video and audio transitions between clips?
• FAQ: Why do I have a red or yellow bar over my sequence, and how do I render previews?
• FAQ: Every Video Effect Explained (Video Tutorial Series)
• Masks - How to Draw a Perfectly Square Mask
• FAQ: How do I do a Find of all clips with a specific effect applied?
• FAQ: How to create a countdown widget in Premiere Pro
• Quick tip: when in the effect control panel, use end key to find the last frame
• FAQ: Avoiding the "This effect requires GPU acceleration" warning
• Order of filters/effects and drop in CUDA-rendering speed, is it a bug or a feature?
• FAQ: How can I add Shortcuts for Ease In and Ease Out for Keyframes?

Text, Subtitling, and Motion Graphics Templates (version 24 and later)

• New Properties Panel in Premiere Pro 25.0
• FAQ: How do I create a multilayered graphic with the Essential Graphics panel?
• FAQ: How do I create a simple title using the Type tool in Premiere Pro 2019?
• FAQ: How do I create a roll or crawl (scrolling credits) with the Essential Graphics panel?
• FAQ: How do adjust a Clip layer after I’ve added it to the Essential Graphics panel?
• Manipulating fonts inside MOGRT's

Text-based Editing and Subtitling

• FAQ: Premiere Pro Troubleshooting Speech to Text issues
• FAQ: How do I troubleshoot firewall and network issues with Speech to Text?
• FAQ: Why does my Text panel remain blank or not appear for Speech to Text?
• FAQ: Why is the Premiere Pro Speech to Text Transcribe button grayed out or disabled?
• Option to change speaker name gone in 23.4?
• Text-Based Editing Not Working?
• How Do You Delete Auto Transcription, to use the re-transcribe sequence...
• Texted Based Editing - Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete all greyed out

Legacy Text

• It's Official: Legacy Titler not shipping in Pr2023
• FAQ: Where is the Legacy Titler in Premiere Pro 2019 located?
• FAQ: How do I access Legacy Text Templates in Premiere Pro CC 2017 (11.1)?
• FAQ: What happens to all my existing titles? Do they upgrade to the new titler?
• FAQ: What happens to my legacy Title Styles with the Essential Graphics panel?

Audio

• FAQ: Why is there no audio during playback?
• FAQ: Preventing Audio Drop Outs While Editing
• FAQ: What is the Essential Sound panel in Premiere Pro?
• Premiere Pro 2025 Version 25.0.0 doesn't accept .mts files with sound?
• What is the most efficient way to level out audio?
• FAQ: Merged Clips Versus Multicam Process: Which to use?
• AAC vs. MPEG Audio Format - Which one can give you an uncompressed sound?
• FAQ: Premiere Pro CC AAF export to ProTools

Export

• FAQ: What is the difference between Rendering, Exporting, and Encoding?
• FAQ: Premiere Pro: Basic Exporting Workflow
• FAQ: How to export in Premiere Pro
• FAQ: What are the best export settings?
• FAQ: Max Depth, Render Quality, and, Linear Color
• FAQ: How do I export a movie for YouTube, Vimeo, iPad, iPhone, or Apple TV?
• FAQ: Delivering Videos for All Screen Formats
• FAQ: Archiving footage - Best Practices
• FAQ: What is Smart Rendering?
• FAQ: How to solve crash while using Export Settings in Premiere Pro v. 14.2?
• FAQ: ProRes4444 bitrate display shows quality loss, DNxHR444 10-bit looks fine. What's going on?

Teams and Productions

• FAQ: How do I switch between multiple open projects?
• FAQ: What is project locking, and how do I use it?

Troubleshooting

• Premiere Pro Troubleshooting Hub
• Premiere Pro Troubleshooting: Mac
• Premiere Pro Troubleshooting: PC
• Premiere Pro Troubleshooting Documents
• Best practices in Premiere
• FAQ: How to reset (trash) preferences in Premiere Pro?
• FAQ: How to find the exact version of Premiere Pro you're using?
• Premiere Pro Troubleshooting: Premiere Pro Software
• FAQ: Basic Troubleshooting & Maintenance for Premiere Pro on macOS
• FAQ: Why are some codecs and sequence presets missing from my installation of Premiere Pro?
• FAQ: How to fix workspace related issues in Premiere Pro?
• FAQ: What do I do when I see diagonal lines on clip(s) after moving media?
• Crashing When Accessing File Explorer
• FAQ: The File Cannot Be Opened Because of a Header Error
• FAQ: After updating Premiere Pro, should you delete media cache?
• FAQ: What are the bug fixes in the Premiere Pro CC 2017 (November 2016) Release?
• FAQ: What are the known issues with Premiere Pro CC 2017 (November 2016)?
• Unable to install mc_enc_hevc.dll for HEVC Decoding/Encoding
• FAQ: How to repair projects that get a "TickTime.cpp-290" error after opening a specific project
• FAQ: How do I fix Audio and Video Clock Out-of-Sync Errors in Premiere Pro CC 2015?
• FAQ: How do I reinstall Premiere Pro CC 2015.2 (9.2)?
• FAQ: How to pull Premiere Pro process samples (Mac)
• Can not open Premiere Pro - it's asking for access to public folder
• FAQ: Where do I find Premiere Pro crash logs on Windows or Mac?

User Interface

• FAQ: How to fix workspace related issues in Premiere Pro?
• P: Scrolling / panning in the Program Monitor
• P: Label colours appear to have inverted in Premiere Pro
• FAQ: What is the new location for certain tools in Premiere Pro 2019?
• FAQ: What are the new tools in the Toolbar?
• FAQ: I don't see the Graphics Workspace, how can I use it?
• FAQ: How to solve issues related to undocked panels in Premiere Pro v14.5?
• FAQ: How to zoom in on the Effect Controls panel to adjust keyframes

Gen AI

• Generative Extend in Premiere Pro

Hardware

• FAQ: What computer and components should I buy for Premiere Pro or After Effects?
• FAQ: Why is my GPU not available for Mercury Playback Engine GPU acceleration?
• FAQ: What Hardware Makes Exporting, Encoding, and Rendering Faster?
• Premiere Pro and Multicore Support
• P: Premiere Pro 24 issue with the GPU on Macbooks Video Preview
• FAQ: What to expect from a RAID 0 setup
• FAQ: Fix for NVIDIA GPU crashes when using a laptop on Windows 10 (PC)
• FAQ: How to update your GPU driver on Windows

Playback and Performance

• FAQ: How do I make Premiere Pro faster?
• FAQ: How do I speed up rendering, exporting, or encoding?
• FAQ: How do I Get Better Performance and Playback in Premiere Pro?
• FAQ: Better performance and playback in Premiere Pro
• FAQ: How to Fix Premiere Pro CC Playback Lag Issues
• Common things that cause slow playback
• FAQ: Fixing stuttering, stuttery, choppy and overall slow playback in Adobe Premiere Pro
• FAQ: Don't run SPOTIFY or CHROME while editing!
• FAQ: How to get the best performance out of Premiere Pro - Dave Helmly - Creative Cow
• FAQ: How to change the Video Renderer in Premiere Pro and Adobe Media Encoder?
• FAQ: Why is playback stuttering when I preview within Premiere Pro?

Developer

• Reminder : UXP pre-release SDK available, for use with Premiere Pro Beta
• New Command Line Tool for PPro extension installation, replaces ExManCmd

Creativity

• FAQ: The 7 Laws of Film Editing
• FAQ: How do I make a demo reel in Premiere Pro?
• FAQ: Discussion: Learning to edit. Get into a cutting rhythm
• FAQ: Discussion: Learning to edit. How do I decide where to cut?
• FAQ: How do I submit a clip to Adobe Stock with Premiere Pro 2019?

Learning and Training

• FAQ: Adobe Premiere Pro Training Hub
• Adobe MAX 2024 On Demand Seminars - Premiere Pro
• Intro to Premiere Pro – Livestream
• Premiere Pro Video Editing Tips and Tricks with Jon Barrie and Chris Hansen

Community

• FAQ: What information should I provide when asking a question on this forum?
• FAQ: How do I contact Adobe Support?
• Avoid Phishing: 3 Easy Ways to Identify Adobe Staff
• FAQ: How Do I File a Bug Report or Write a Feature Request?
• FAQ: How do I submit a bug report, feature request, or give feedback about Premiere Pro?
• How do I write a bug report?
• How do I write a feature request?
• New Board Labels Added: Editing, Effects and Titles, and Formats
• FAQ: Migration of UserVoice to Support Community
• Exclusive discounts with your Creative Cloud membership
• Premiere Pro Community Digest Home Page
• Premiere Pro Community Events
• Adobe Video and Audio Community Events - meet the team and fellow post-production colleagues!
• Adobe and the 2024 Sundance Film Festival
• Adobe and the 2025 Sundance Film Festival
• Adobe Premiere Pro Video Editing Sessions at MAX 2024
• FAQ: What were the Adobe Digital Video and Audio Team Presentations at IBC 2019?
• Premiere Pro Team Blog Posts — March 2021

Premiere Pro Guided Workflow

• Premiere Pro Guided Workflow: Start Here
• Premiere Pro Guided Workflow: Get Started Editing Quickly
• Premiere Pro Guided Workflow: Planning the Workflow for a Short Video
• Premiere Pro Guided Workflow: Check the System Requirements
• Premiere Pro Guided Workflow: Create a project
• Premiere Pro Guided Workflow: Import Footage
• Premiere Pro Guided Workflow: Import VFR Video Files
• Premiere Pro Guided Workflow: Importing video files from file-based camcorders
• Premiere Pro Guided Workflow: Managing Highly Compressed Source Footage Before Editing

Switching Software

• FAQ: For Avid Editors Learning Premiere Pro: Resources and Tutorials

Legacy Versions

• FAQ: Information about the Premiere Pro CC 2017 (11.0.2) update
• FAQ: Information about the Premiere Pro CC 2017 (11.1.2) update.
• Premiere Pro 14.0.1 is now available for download!
• Premiere Pro 14.0.3 is now available for download!
• Premiere Pro 14.0.4 is now available for download!
• Welcome to Premiere Pro 14.2!
• Welcome to Premiere Pro 14.3!
• Welcome to Premiere Pro 14.3.1!
• Welcome to Premiere Pro 14.4!
• Premiere Pro 15.4.1 is now available!
• Adobe MAX 2021 and Adobe Premiere Pro (v.22)
• Welcome to Premiere Pro 22.1.2!
• Welcome to Adobe Premiere Pro 22.6.2!
• What is fixed in 22.6.3?
• Welcome to Adobe MAX 2022 and Premiere Pro (v.23.0)!
• Welcome to Adobe Premiere Pro 23.2!
• Welcome to Premiere Pro 22.3.1!
• Welcome to Adobe Premiere Pro 23.4!
• Welcome to Premiere Pro 24.2.1!
• Welcome to Premiere Pro 24.3!
• Welcome to Premiere Pro 24.4.1
• Welcome to Premiere Pro 24.5!
• Welcome to Premiere Pro 25.1!

Text, Subtitling, and Motion Graphics Templates (version 23 and earlier)

• FAQ: What is the Essential Graphics panel?
• FAQ: Why did Adobe create the Essential Graphics panel?
• FAQ: What is the difference between the Essential Graphics panel and the Effect Controls panel for graphics? Why should I use one or the other?
• FAQ: Complete list of Premiere 14.0 graphics/text keyboard shortcuts
• FAQ: How do I manage Motion Graphics templates on my computer?
• FAQ: Workaround: Nesting to Apply Effect Controls to Caption Track
• Adobe MAX 2020: Cut to the Point: Captions in Premiere Pro Beta (Video)

Uncategorized

• FAQ: Where can I get royalty free music and sound effects from Adobe?
• FAQ: NLC tags 1-1-1 vs 1-2-1 and PrPro's actions and practices
• FAQ: Downloading and Installing Premiere Pro
• FAQ: What's the difference between a Project and a Sequence?
• How to make a preset of text animation?
• VIDEO MASTERCLASS | Remote Editing...One Year Later (Tips, Solutions & More!)
• FAQ: Troubleshooting Intel iGPU systems with Premiere Pro
• FAQ: New Captions process
• Cannot Drag Select Multiple Mask Path Points
• Livestream: After Effects (.mogrts) with School of Motion & Adobe Stock
• Mastering Collaborative Video Editing with Creative Cloud - Adobe MAX 2020 Seminar
• FAQ: Mercury Playback Engine, CUDA, OpenCL, Metal, and what it all means
• Known issue: Crash when using text styles in Essential Graphics panel
• FAQ: Editing Technique - How to Loop Playback in Premiere Pro
• FAQ: Details about Scaling, Quality, and the GPU in Premiere Pro
• FAQ: How Do I Optimize Media for Faster Encoding, Exporting, and Rendering?