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February 19, 2026
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Looking for VFR (Variable Frame Rate) Problem Files – Help Us Improve Premiere's Editing Experience

  • February 19, 2026
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Hi everyone!

I’m a Product Manager on the Premiere team working specifically on improving the Variable Frame Rate (VFR) editing experience.

We know VFR footage can introduce issues in real-world workflows, such as sync drift, stuttering playback, unexpected frame duplication, audio misalignment, export mismatches, and other inconsistencies. We’re actively exploring ways to make editing VFR footage in Premiere more predictable and robust, and we need real project files that have caused problems.

If you’ve run into VFR-related issues, I’d greatly appreciate your help.

 

What we’re looking for

 

Please PM me with:

  1. A link to the project file and media (Dropbox, Frame.io, or similar works well)

  2. A clear description of the issue

  3. Reproducible steps if possible (what you did, what you expected, what happened instead)

  4. Your hardware specs (CPU, GPU, RAM, OS version)

  5. Premiere Pro version

 

Common VFR Sources We’re Investigating

  • Phone footage (iPhone, Android, Samsung, Pixel, etc.)

  • Screen recordings (OBS, XSplit, Loom, Zoom, Teams, etc.)

  • Gameplay captures

  • Webcam recordings

  • Mixed camera workflows where some clips are CFR and others VFR

 

Even if the issue seems small or inconsistent, it’s valuable to us. Edge cases help us design more resilient behavior.

Thanks in advance to anyone willing to share files and workflows, I'm looking forward to hearing from you!

    14 replies

    Known Participant
    June 3, 2026

    アドビの方から、マイクロソフトに固定フレームレートのキャプチャーを出来るように

    促してほしい。

    PPやゲームキャプチャー等可変フレームしか出来ないので。

    Known Participant
    June 3, 2026

    まずメディアエンコーダーに、固定フレームレートに変換する機能を付けてほしいです。

    ハンドブレーキ等が、会社のセキュリティの関係で入れてもらえないので、そこから始めてほしいです。

    Inspiring
    May 26, 2026

    DVR Footage is a big one, security camera video. I don’t have any examples to share but I’ve had to edit stuff that was VBR 8FPS interview rooms.  Best options we found were to real time re-capture them with an external recorder Blackmagic or Atmos. 

    NGUYỄN ANH ĐỨC
    Participant
    May 15, 2026

    https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1wxFxR3pgm0Z2FKxHEmdp0t9YsVfH5zhX?usp=drive_link
    VIDEO: 4K 60 FPS, IPHONE 17 PROMAX
    -----------------------
    Processor    Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-14700KF (3.40 GHz)
    Installed RAM    64.0 GB (63.8 GB usable)
    Graphics card    NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti (16 GB)

     

    NGUYỄN ANH ĐỨC
    Participant
    May 15, 2026

    I filmed using the Blackmagic Cam app, and I use the latest version of Adobe Premiere Pro. 🎬

    Cathy22724078qvb5
    Participant
    May 4, 2026

    I’m having this exact issue and tried so many things found online, non of it is working.
    It is phone footage in VFR recording of the Oneplus Nord 5 (and I cannot chage it to CFR). 

    Note: the videos are 1-5min long each, so not hours of footage, the final result is between 1-2min max.

    What is happening:

    The video plays normally in VCL player (original file on PC) and on the phone.
    The imported footage in premiere is shaky and shotty, like with a glitch, in pieces visually. The audio plays as normal.
    When put into a timeline, this issue remains.
    When exporting, this issue remains.

    I imported the videos, made a timeline with 1 one them, edited it to the best of my abilities and exported it. In every single step, the issue remained.

    Specs: CPU Intel(R) Core(TM) i9 - 10980HK CPU @ 2.40GHz
    GPU Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080
    RAM: 32 BG
    OS version: Windows 11 Pro
    Premiere version: Premiere Pro 2026 26.2

    What I have tried:

    • I cleared my cache
    • I tried working with proxies
    • I switched processor settings
    • set the preview to ½ and ¼
    • updated premiere pro (04/05/2026)
    • uninstalled an reinstalled
    • started a new project
    • checked for updates on processor (none) 
    • Manually set the framerate for the video

    These all did nothing to fix the issue, I ended up editing it in another program (capcut) to be able to finish it.

    I’m happy to provide the link to my projects.

    R Neil Haugen
    Legend
    May 4, 2026

    Until the whole VFR thing can be handled, you could do like many of us who get stuck with the stuff … do a batch conversion in either ShutterEncoder or Handbrake to CFR. Then of course, there are actually the proper number of frames per second those phones didn’t record.

     

    It will be nice if they can get Premiere able to use the stuff “on the fly”, with all the additional processing load it requires. As when there aren’t actually any frames for a segment of timeline, and the app needs to create them, well, yea, that’s additional processing load.

    Everyone's mileage always varies ...
    Annabelle190
    Participating Frequently
    April 4, 2026

    I’ve been having sync issues with VFR clips lately, especially with long gameplay recordings. It’s great that the team is looking for sample files to improve the editing experience. I can help by uploading some of my problematic footage if you're still collecting data to test the new Premiere updates.

    hunting
    Participant
    March 18, 2026

    Thanks ❤

    Shebbe
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    March 18, 2026

    I just want to say thanks for looking in to this. 
    In our facility we use a workaround where we preconform all phone footage we get to fixed 25fps before editing to remove all related issues. So I won’t be able to give any useable recent data but I’m happy it's being taken seriously and hope to see a solution that can remove our workaround.

    Known Participant
    March 13, 2026

    You know what you could do, stop releasing new versions every year when they aren't ready. You could use that time to work through the years of bugs and feature requests you already have. 

    Peru Bob
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    March 13, 2026

    @real_5081 

    I understand your frustration, but your reply is neither helpful nor appropriate for this thread.

    An Adobe employee is attempting to gather information in this thread to address one of the issues you have referenced.

    Known Participant
    March 6, 2026

    Thanks for looking into this.

    I can share plenty of VFR material from promotional and social media projects (mostly iphone footage), but in my experience the main issue isn't necessarily playback or export. Premiere generally handles that fine as long as everything stays inside the timeline.

    Where things really fall apart is proxy generation.

    With VFR footage, attempting to generate proxies always completely cripples my machine. My observations are that since the frame rate is fluctuating, Premiere struggles to lock the proxy generation to a consistent frame rate, which makes the process useless.

    Interestingly, I rarely see this issue in Resolve. From what I understand, Resolve tends to conform VFR footage to a constant frame rate on import (or interpret it more predictably), which allows it to generate proxies without issues.

    A possible improvement could be something like:

    • Detect VFR on import

    • Offer an option to conform to the closest constant frame rate (e.g. 23.976 / 25 / 30) before proxy creation

    Right now my workaround is usually to transcode the footage to CFR before editing, which solves the problem but adds an extra step.

    That said, part of the problem also comes from capture devices themselves. Phones and screen recordings default to VFR, but now that many devices market “professional” video features (e.g. Blackmagic Camera app), it would be great if constant frame rate recording became more standard to avoid these issues altogether.

    Happy to share sample files if helpful.