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Jun 11, 2025
Yeah, this has always kind of been “inherent” to that option. My guess is that when Selection Follows Playhead is enabled, Premiere has to constantly load each clip’s info, effects, and other metadata into their panels as the playhead moves. My workaround is that I’ve assigned a keyboard shortcut to toggle the option, so I can quickly enable or disable it as needed.
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Jun 11, 2025
12:58 AM
https://www.autokroma.com/PlumePack I am in no way, shape, or form affiliated to these guys, but this plugin is a life-saver when it comes to managing projects. I gave up on Premiere's project manager a long time ago, it's honestly pretty useless.
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Jun 11, 2025
12:46 AM
For now this will result in me turning off the visual analysis and probably not using it at all. By @Boyd P Right on point! As long as it's a global setting, it won't be tested/used enough.
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Jun 11, 2025
12:36 AM
You're probably seeing the black line at the bottom of the video, right? If so, it’s not really a Premiere bug, it’s more about how some video formats (like H.264) handle video sizes. They usually work best with even numbers for width and height. In your case, the height is 875, which is an odd number, and that can cause the encoder to add a black line to make it fit. Something to do with the compression algorithm and how it does the calculations. Try a different format, ProRes maybe, or change the height of the sequence to 876 and give it a test.
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Jun 11, 2025
12:27 AM
When Premiere exports to H.264 (and some other formats), it actually writes two separate files in the background, typically a .m4v video and an .aac audio. When it reaches 100% and seems to get stuck, it’s usually just combining (muxing) those two files together into the final .mp4 container. For long videos, that can take a while, especially if the disk is slow or nearly full. I’ve run into this before with a 1-hour podcast export, it sat at 100% for several minutes before completing, now I just wait for it to finish. Make sure your export drive has at least double the space of the final file, because Premiere needs room for those intermediate files before merging them. You can also try exporting to a different codec (like ProRes or DNxHD) just to test whether the issue is tied specifically to the H.264 muxing step. Premiere isn’t frozen, it’s just silently finishing that final step.
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Jun 09, 2025
03:03 PM
1 Upvote
@R Neil Haugen I’m definitely due for an upgrade. But the thing is, this drastic drop in performance happened almost overnight, which is why I’m treating it as a potential bug. My CPU and GPU didn’t suddenly age in the past month. This lag actually started showing up right before the latest Premiere update. I held off, hoping the next update would fix it, but unfortunately, the issue persisted. @Dani_V. I work with several camera formats, but my proxy workflow is almost always ProRes (Medium). Once a clip is “loaded” (not sure how else to describe it), playback and scrubbing are perfectly smooth. The issue is in that initial delay, where it takes about half a second or so before the clip becomes responsive. After that, everything behaves normally—until I start editing again and the lag returns. PS. I’ve been using Premiere since before it was “Pro,” and I’ve always been a strong advocate for it. I just wanted to clarify that I don’t post bug reports lightly. I usually take the time to troubleshoot and rule out all the usual suspects on my own—I handle large projects and can’t afford to wait around for community replies. Most of the time I get things fixed myself, but this one really feels like a regression in performance. Thanks again for taking the time to look into it, happy to provide any other details that might help.
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Jun 08, 2025
05:24 AM
Here's a quick example of how to achieve this. You just need to tweek it according to your footage, but you get the gist.
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Jun 08, 2025
01:48 AM
As others suggested, using a green glove could work. But make sure the puppet you're filming doesn’t have any green on it, or it’ll be difficult to separate the glove from the puppet during keying. Also, keep in mind that removing the glove will leave a hole in your footage—so it’s important to shoot a clean plate (an empty version of the exact same frame without your hand) that you can use to fill in that gap. This will make the post-process much smoother and more convincing.
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Jun 08, 2025
01:38 AM
It seems like your mask's feather is bleeding inside the frame, you need to make the mask bigger than the frame so that when the overlayed clouds fill the screen the feathering remains outside the edges. You can either make the mask bigger, or just adjust its "expansion". Add a keyframe for the expansion at the start of the transition and then add another keyframe at the end, and expand the mask until it fills the whole screen.
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Jun 08, 2025
01:27 AM
1 Upvote
I’ve noticed a big change in how Premiere handles proxies during editing. In the past, no matter how many clips I had on the timeline—even thousands—once the proxies were attached, Premiere would fly through the timeline without any issues. It was smooth and fast. Lately though, it feels like Premiere is struggling to load the proxies. As shown in the attached video, there's a noticeable lag when scrubbing or jumping through the timeline. Once the clips "load," performance goes back to normal, but that initial delay wasn’t there before. The only way I’ve found to force the clips to load is to play the entire timeline at full speed a couple of times. But even then, the clips tend to “unload” again as soon as I start editing—making things choppy all over again. Nothing has changed on my end—same machine, same workflows. It used to be a breeze once proxies were ready. Has something changed in how Premiere handles proxies? Can someone explain what’s going on with this drop in performance? Microsoft Windows 11 Pro, 10.0.22631 Build 22631 Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-10900X CPU @ 3.70GHz ROG STRIX X299-E GAMING II RAM 256 GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Samsung SSD 990 PRO 1TB Samsung SSD 870 EVO 4TB Adobe Premiere Pro Version 25.2.3 (Build 4)
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May 22, 2025
10:29 AM
1 Upvote
I don't think so.. Your best bet would be a 4 to 8 frames Morph cut, but you said you already tried it.. I'm just replying cause I think that would make a great feature request, something reallyuseful for AI to make. It could be called Generative Fill or something.. it would be really neat.. I hope it's in the pipelines..
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May 15, 2025
03:56 AM
Thank you, it seems this behavior got re-introduced with the latest update. Your solution works... but why do we have to go down this route when it worked just fine?
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May 15, 2025
03:21 AM
Hi Sumeet, sorry for the late reply, I just saw your message. Is this happening with a camera folder structure that has metadata files along with lots of media, or is it just a regular folder? Also, does it happen with a specific folder or with any folder with multiple files? This happens regardless of how the source folder is structured (with or without metada files), and it happens to any folder with large amount of files. Does this issue happen in a new project or only with existing projects? Both. What is the format of the media being used here? The latest time I ran into this I was working with AVC files, but it happens with other formats as well. But why would the format matter? It really doesn't seem to be an issue with the format. Cause when I run the batch I created to move the files into separate folders (10 videos per folder), it works just fine. The ONLY difference I can spot between when it works well and when it doesn't is the number of files in the source folder. Same SSD, same root directory, same files, same project. I'll try to record a video for you maybe it makes it a bit clearer.
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May 14, 2025
05:00 AM
1 Upvote
If you have both After Effects and Premiere Pro open, you can select the compositions from After Effects and simply drag and drop them in Pemiere Pro.
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Apr 27, 2025
03:30 PM
This is still an issue with the latest update.
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Apr 27, 2025
03:25 PM
1 Upvote
Thank you, Stan. I tried to look for a similar report before posting but didn't find it, and so, much appreciated for the tip.
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Apr 23, 2025
01:53 AM
1 Upvote
The Duration in the Info window is hidden.
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Mar 01, 2025
05:57 AM
Hi Sumeet, Thank you for looking into this! Also, I’m not so new to the community. I’m not sure exactly when this issue started happening, as I never tried troubleshooting it before—I used to just let it queue for several hours. But this time, I didn’t have that luxury, so I had to find a solution. It seems that if the source folder contains over 100 files (or I'm not sure how many), the queueing process slows down drastically. For this particular project, the source folder had over 1,400 files, and Media Encoder was taking over 5 minutes just to queue each video. To work around this, I created a simple script to split the files into batches of 10 per folder and then imported the resulting 140 folders into Premiere. After doing this, Media Encoder was taking only a couple of seconds per file—which is a completely reasonable speed. I’m not sure why the number of files in the source folder would impact the queueing process so significantly, especially considering that nothing else changed—same Premiere version, same Media Encoder, same exact video files. The only difference was the number of files in the folder. I thought I should share my findings in case it helps others, and it would be great if your team could look into this further to see if there’s an underlying issue causing this slowdown. Thanks!
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Feb 28, 2025
12:20 AM
I recently ran into a frustrating issue where adding proxies to the Media Encoder queue was taking forever—not the encoding itself, just the process of getting the clips into the queue. After some trial and error, I may have found a simple workaround that speeds things up significantly! What’s Happening? If your source footage is stored in a folder with too many files, Premiere (or Media Encoder) seems to slow down drastically when adding proxy jobs—almost like it’s scanning the entire folder before adding each clip. This happens even if you only import one single file from that folder! So, the slowdown isn’t caused by how many clips you bring into Premiere, but rather by how many files exist in the folder containing the rushes. The Fix: I found that simply moving each video file into its own separate folder (or organizing them into smaller subfolders) before importing into Premiere makes a huge difference. Then: Import the organized folders into Premiere instead of all the clips from a single crowded directory. Generate proxies as usual. The Result: With this method, the proxy queueing process runs way faster—no more long delays before Media Encoder starts working. A Note to Adobe Devs: It seems like Media Encoder might be scanning entire folders before adding proxy jobs, which can cause major slowdowns if the folder has a large number of files. Since this delay happens even when importing just one file from a busy folder, it suggests that the issue isn’t tied to the number of imported clips but to the total number of files in the source folder. If this is the case, it would be great if future updates could optimize this process! Hope this helps anyone struggling with slow proxy jobs.
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May 11, 2024
09:46 AM
Exactly, except for for the .pek files which can only be set globally from "Preferences" and not from the Project's Scratch Disks window.
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May 09, 2024
12:07 AM
4 Upvotes
Hello Premiere Pro Community and Developers, I'd like to propose an enhancement to the way Premiere Pro handles the storage of media cache files, specifically the .pek and .cfa files. Currently, the location of these files is configured globally in the program's preferences under Media Cache settings. This approach requires manual intervention to change the location for each new project if we want to keep project files and cache files together, which is not very practical for those of us managing multiple projects. Suggestion: I believe a more streamlined and project-friendly approach would be to allow users to set the media cache location on a per-project basis. This could be integrated into the Project Settings or Scratch Disks settings, where we could have an option to select "Same as Project" for media cache files. Such a feature would automatically store all media cache files in the designated project folder, thus keeping all related files consolidated and making project archiving and portability much easier. Thank you for considering this enhancement. I believe it would be a valuable addition for many users.
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Oct 12, 2023
12:08 AM
How is multciam a partial solution? It sounds like that's exactly what you're looking for. Can you elaborate on why it's not so we can better help?
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Oct 12, 2023
12:05 AM
Is is possible that you're turned on the "Global FX Mute" by mistake? It's the little "fx" icon under the program monitor.
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Oct 11, 2023
11:18 PM
Hey Simon, I feel your pain. Premiere Pro's media management has always been a bit of a thorn in our sides. Unfortunately, I don’t have a solution for this issue (and I really doubt anyone has). It's one of those quirks we've learned to work around over the years. It might not be the most satisfying answer, but lowering your expectations on Premiere’s media management might save you some headaches down the line. Please upvote this post, hopefully catching the developers' attention to address this sore, frustrating, maddening, life-threatening, hair-pulling, and sleep-depriving issue. Best of luck!
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Sep 17, 2023
02:24 AM
and what the world is this "autosave current project" option. You know how auto-save creates copies of your project in your specified auto-save folder, well this option allows it to automatically overwrite your currently open project file alongside the usual copies inside said folder.
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Jun 22, 2023
04:14 AM
2. Premiere can actually export SRT. 3. Edit the SRT in Notepad for example and save. For other cases, if you have a text file, just "save as" and change the extension to ".srt"
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Jun 22, 2023
04:05 AM
Those black lines can be added by the media player when the aspect ratio is not something it likes, re-import your exported file into Premiere to double check it.
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Jun 22, 2023
01:33 AM
These are In and Out points, they mark the part of the clip that you want to use in your timeline. If you have them set by mistake, right click on the video in the source monitor and Clear In and Out. In and Out points (or markers) are the most useful basic things in video editing, I would suggest you watch some quick YouTube tutorials for beginners before you dive into Premiere so you know your way around the software.
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Jun 22, 2023
01:18 AM
1 Upvote
Double click the file to open it in the source monitor and make sure there's no in point in the middle of it.
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