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adamr2018
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May 3, 2025
Question

Drone MOV files aren't rendering

  • May 3, 2025
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My Premier Pro just upgraded last week and this is the first video I've exported so far. I shot all my iphone videos in mp4 and the drone vids are mostly MOV. When first using them in the timeline they were fine and as the video got longer they started to skip and not playback well even in 1/4 resolution and were just freeze framed (they still are if I try and playback inside the timeline) and I just figured it was too much for the CPU so I kept going. After rendering the video and exporting it, those drone shots are just freeze framed like they played back in the timeline and not moving in the export. roughly 10% of the drone videos did export even though they're also MOV files. Super frustrating, and not sure how to fix this issue! Using Premier Pro 2025

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MarcCebrian
Inspiring
August 20, 2025

Since upgrading to Premiere 24.0 and beyond, I have had nothing but issues with MOV files generated by our DJI drone. They used to be normal, but since last year, those shots have the same issues you describe. They play...a little bit, then freeze. Even the proxies play a bit, then freeze. Resolution does not matter. Sequence settings do not matter. The ONLY solution I have found that works 100% is to recompress the MOV files to another codec (I use ProRes) and re-create proxies...then the footage plays smooth as butter. -- If you do not want to do that, you can add the raw drone clips into your timeline and render them. You can copy and paste within your timeline and they will play smoothly as long as they are rendered. If you don't want to bother, recompressing to a re-wrapped MOV codec at the start removes sudden headaches.

John T Smith
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John T SmithCommunity Expert
Community Expert
May 3, 2025

MOV is a wrapper, what is inside YOUR wrapper - Exactly what is INSIDE the video you are editing?
Report back with the codec details of your file, use the program below
Free program to get file information for PC/Mac http://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo/Download
- a MediaInfo tutorial https://youtu.be/Ivy9ckSX1M0
- when you analyze your file in MediaInfo and post a screen shot in the forum, do so in TREE view
- post your information IN your message, not as an attachment that someone would have to download
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Does your video use a Variable Frame Rate? See https://community.adobe.com/t5/Premiere-Pro/Variable-frame-rate-video-with-Premiere-Pro/td-p/4601935
If yes, use https://handbrake.fr/ open source transcoder/converter to convert to Constant Frame Rate
Handbrake tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlvxgVREX-Y&t=34s

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    adamr2018Author
    Participant
    May 3, 2025

    Well let's just start with the first shot in my timeline.. Here's the info on it.

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    adamr2018Author
    Participant
    May 3, 2025

    I believe my iphones frame rate is 29.98 but some are shot in 59.91 fps and some in 60 fps but those all exported great. The drone shots are the ones that didn't (90% of them)

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