It sounds like you may have the wrong tool selected. Please go to the tool bar and check to see that you have the arrow (selection) tool selected. Keyboard shortcut "V." ... View more

You could try re-arranging the Effects in your Effect Control window. Dragging the name of an effect above or below the other effect. The gentlemen are right about only certain effects changing white. ... View more

Check the playback resolution by the wrench (settings) in the source and program monitors and see if they're set to full. ... View more

Just a quick double check to make sure that you have plenty of disk space on the drive that you're exporting to and an empty recycle bin. ... View more

As far as text goes. If you wan't orbiting text  you can use the CC Sphere Effect. Type in your text and treat your text. Click the 3d switch on your text (cube. in the timeline) Apply the CC Sphere Effect to your text. In Effect Controls you can adjust the radius of the text to get the size of the orbit you want. In Effect Controls twirl open rotation Y and keyframe the rotation. It will now be orbiting in front of your image. Then duplicate your orbiting text (cmd/D or Ctrl/D) and place the duplicate under your image. On the top layer of text in Effect Controls change the render settings to outside. On the lower layer of text in Effect Controls change the render settings to inside. ... View more

try selecting everything that you've animated and the adjustment layers and doing a right click/nest. leave the background out of the nest and at the bottom of your timeline. ... View more

Not in PPro. After Effects does it the way that you described. Possible work around. You can copy the clip with the keyframes. (Edit/copy) Make a longer version of the clip in your timeline, (Edit/paste attributes) on to the longer clip. and check scale attribute times in the paste attributes panel. replace the shorter clip with the longer one. Not as convenient as the "stretch/compress option" but no math. ... View more

Can you try playing the video in  player outside of Premiere and see that it plays ok? Also check to see if your video drivers are up to date ... View more

I'd try clearing the cache. At the top of the Premiere interface. Premiere Pro (mac) Edit (windows) Preferences/Media Cache then click on clean unused. If that doesn't work. You could also reset your preferences by: holding down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) while the application is starting. Also make sure that someone hasn't spilled coffee in the keyboard. ... View more

Are you on Mac or Windows? If on Windows did you try the steps that I posted above? ... View more

I'd try this: Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift (Windows) or Command+Option+Shift (Mac OS) while the application is starting. A dialog box launches asking you if you want to delete your preferences file. ... To also restore default keyboard shortcuts, Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (Mac OS) the OK button. Hope that it helps ... View more

If on Windows: I would try installing the Quicktime Codecs only. Codecs only because of security problems. Heres the link. https://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/ Then follow these instructions: Click on the Next button on the first page on the installation wizard. Accept the License Agreement. Select Custom install Only enable QuickTime Essentials. Disable everything else. If you use Sony Vegas, then you also need to install the QuickTime Player. Now you will be on the Destination Folder page. Uncheck the boxes for Install Desktop shortcuts and Automatically update QuickTime and other Apple software Click on the Install button. The installation will now begin. Click on the Finish button. Then restart your apps and try playing again. ... View more

That could help. Also things overall run better if your main drive has plenty of free space. ... View more

Have you tried outputting to see if the graphic is sharp in the video format? ... View more

Perhaps try dragging the mp4 from your desktop in to the Project Panel in Premiere. ... View more

Do you have a sequence in your timeline? The comma key doesn't work if there isn't an open sequence in the timeline. ... View more

I would try cleaning your media cache. Go to Premiere Pro (Mac) or Edit (Windows) /Preferences/Media Cache then click Unused. Save and close Premiere then re-start Premiere. Hopefully this will help. If not you could also try re-setting preferences by trying these options. Press Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) while launching Premiere Pro. You can release the Alt key or Option key when the splash screen appears. To reset preferences and plug-in cache at the same time, hold down Shift-Alt (Windows) or Shift-Option (Mac OS) while the application is starting. Release the Shift-Alt keys or Shift-Option key when the splash screen appears. ... View more

I've had performance issues with that effect. By any chance do you use After Effects? When I need to do this I go in to After Effects then put a mask line (with the pen tool) over the drawing and use the "stroke" effect. You can tell the effect to reveal original and keyframe the start value. You also make the brush size larger than the lines of your drawing. ... View more

You may want to try emptying your disk cache and doing a clean database and cache. On Mac you to got to the top bar After Effects/Media & Disk Cache. Windows would be Edit/Media & Disk Cache. Then click empty disk cache and clean database and cache. Then close and re-start After Effects. I hope that this helps. ... View more

More detail would be helpful as to what you're doing. Are you scaling an Illustrator or vector file? If so have you checked the continuously rasterize option (gap under the switch that looks similar to an asterisk) in the timeline? ... View more

I recommend taking a course at an  Adobe Certified Training Center. Major cities have them. I agree that the Meyer book After Effects Apprentice is excellent. ... View more

The Program Monitor window sets itself to the size of the sequence that you're working with. Perhaps your video was shot with this aspect ratio or you have your sequence in a different sequence than your video size? I would highlight the video that your working with then go to the information panel and check its x y frame size, then highlight the sequence in the project panel (bars icon) and see if it is the same frame size. If the frame size on your video and sequence are the same then your video was not shot wide screen. ... View more

The Proxy workflow does not go that far back. You will need to upgrade. ... View more

Window/Workspace/Paint to change the work space. ... View more

You may want to try going in to the "Paint" work space and using the paint brush tool. In the paint work space there are several brushes with soft boundaries and you adjust the settings from there. ... View more