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Arvind Sridhar
Adobe Employee
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
  • 3 replies
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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!

      3 replies

      jamesmite
      jamesmite
      Participating Frequently
      February 28, 2026

      Really appreciate you reaching out to the community about this. VFR issues can definitely be frustrating, especially with phone and screen recordings, so it’s great to see the team actively working on improvements.

      I’ll gather a sample project and system details and send them over via PM. Hope this helps make the VFR workflow more stable for everyone!

      AndrewTheGreat
      AndrewTheGreat
      Known Participant
      February 25, 2026

      I’d suppose, to reproduce this notorious problem, you’d only need a really long footage from a cellphone, like an hour or two long, cut heavily. it’s normally a 99 out of 100 case of a VFR drift scenario.

      I really wanna help and give you some VFR footage but since it’s always been a problem I now demand a CFR only footage from my clients or convert it to CFR.

      ​@Boka2112 

      Because there are different scenarios like zoom, OBS records. People usually don’t bother themselves with video editors’ problems and shoot as is.

       

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      Adobe Employee
      abhishekkapoor
      Adobe Employee
      March 3, 2026

      Hi Andrew,

      Thank you for posting details — I appreciate you taking the time!

      One quick check: Does this still happen in the latest version of Premiere ?
      would you be comfortable with a conference call to dig deeper? 
       

      Thanks again!

       

      Abhishek

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      Boka2112
      Inspiring
      February 25, 2026

      Why not cbr and ditch vbr? Is it because of a great size difference? I only use cbr because vbr make transitions look like garbage.

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