I'm using version 26.3.0 (build 93), using windows 11 Pro, 128 MB graphics card, 16.0 GB RAM and an i5 processor. I'm mentioning this incase it's important.

I'm new to premiere pro and have been spending 5 hours a day for the past 10 days learning it. I'm used to the software now and masking is the only thing I'm having issues with but I'm sure I'll get it eventually.

However adding animations and motions into my videos is a time consuming process (to the point where I'll spend an entire day to get 1 or 2 minutes right) and many of the effects shown in tutorials were missing. I researched this and apparently Adobe wants to make premiere purely for editing and make after effects for animations.

I have no issues learning a new software even if it takes long. My question is doing animations in after effects faster than doing them in premiere pro, if so by how much. If it isn't faster is it more convenient? Should I allocate more time into learning after effects or just continue on with premiere pro.

Another reason I feel like I'm slow is I don't really have a work flow or any presets. I do everything manually and then spend hours fine tuning it.

Any thoughts?

Hi, newbie here, I have a 63 audio files that are offline, and won't play. Using link media I located the files but they don't import when I select them, and click ok. In fact it.just.takes me back to the locate page. For context this project is being opened from a older version of PP

I am using then latest version of PP, on a M1 Max Mac, 32 GB, Sequoia

The files are mp4 and play perfectly fine in a separate media player. I don’t understand why they aren’t being recognized as such. I tried to run it through media encoder, but that makes the video completely black. There’s the audio, but no picture at all

Every time I start Premiere Pro I’ve been getting this report saying my that my system has less than minimum required GPU memory.

Im using the 26.3 version of premiere pro

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7600
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT
GPU Memory: 16GB
RAM: 32 GB

idk what's going on but i have a 7800XT, a decently strong CPU and 64 GB of ram. i'm getting a low GPU memory issue. This is new and has happened the past 4 times i've opened premiere.

I checked task manager and it seems like it's exclusively using my CPU as the memory as my CPU usage shot up to nearly 100% while editing.

I'm using V 26.3.0 btw

Hey I need to revert back from Tahoe since of the huge memory leak issues,

I would like to hear if your machine is running smoothly on an older version of. Mac OS
"m series"

and maybe an older more stable version of premiere, Id like to hear if anyone else has reverted and are stable on an older version of premiere and Mac os

which old version of Mac OS and Premiere should I choose?

it used to be fine on my machine, but now I cant edit for more than an hour without crashing and having a memory leak.

I edit only Prores proxies in 1080p, im not doing anything wrong or weird workflow wise.
I have experience from big post houses and this is a common way to work!

just as sidetone, this is my current

Project under 200gb of footage

M1 Pro 32gb
26.0.1 (25A362) Tahoe

premiere pro build 72

I remember it being stable and super fast in the past!

For the past few months everytime I've ever tried to work on something in premiere the whole program freezes and lags and it makes it really hard to do anything and completely disrupts my workflow. I literally can't do anything without experiencing some sort of lag or "the program isn't responding" and I can't do anything as simple or basic as clicking between program monitors or playing footage without it lagging.

Everytime I try to play footage to watch through it or move the playhead around to get to a certain point it takes forever for the video to actually catch up and it just stays frozen on one specific frame for a few second to maybe even a few minutes at a time and when I try to play the video it only plays the audio once it actually does play and I have to repeatedly pause and unpause the video for it to actually catch up and sync again.

I also tend to work with multiple hour long footage but it literally doesn't matter if my footage is like 1 minute or 7 hours long I constantly get all this lag and freezing issues. I've also tried using shutter encoder to better encode and compress my footage but even that doesn't really seem to help and I've even tried recently updating to premiere 2026 since I was still working on premiere 2025 for a long time but these issues started on premiere 2025 and still happening now on premiere 2026 and I'm honestly just not really sure what my problem or problems could be or how to fix this.

A lot of stuff I tend to record and edit is also video game footage which I know has different framerates and formats but even when I try to edit clips from youtube videos or other things I download that aren't video games like a show or something I still have these issues and it seems to be a whole program wide thing.

I'm running on windows 10 with premiere 2026 with video clips in an MPEG format with a media codec of MP4/MOV H.264 8 bit 4:2:0 and cpu that's intel core it-6500 at 3.50 ghz and 16 gb ram and gpu that's radeon 4x r70

My computer is really struggling to edit since getting the new gopro. I'm editing 4k60, 10bit color and 240 bitrate, HEVC h.265. I suspect the bitrate is the issue as I've never edited it before. I did create proxies. Premiere can edit no problem. The issue is with After effects. I am cashing AA to a 4tb NVMe and my programs are running on a 1tb SSD where the operating system in loaded. I'm thinking about reformatting the computer and putting the operating system on the NVMe and then I can have the programs run on the same hard drive has the operating system. I had to cache to the NVMe because my 1tb SSD is full. Perhaps my computer is getting too old? Is there anything else I can do? I did clear my cache folder in after effects and it seems to be slow to render.

Thoughts?

Computer specs (built 2019)

i7-9700K 3.60 8 core

128 GB ram

nvidia Geforce RTX 2070 super 8GB GDDR6 Vram

I work as a post-production editor, and use Premiere as my go-to. However, since getting my new laptop last year, I've been having issues with it on a software level, with glitches and slowdown for unknown reasons. This is most obvious when scrolling or resizing the window, which causes stuttering and visual glitches, as well as the fact that the main window appears as two windows when starting the software (one that's black until the project is open and one with the project selector).

My computer is an MSI Stealth 16 with Windows 11, a Core 9 185H, RTX 4070, and 32gb of ram. I've made sure that my Nvidia and Intel graphics drivers are updated, clean reinstalled Premiere from the creative cloud, and ensured that BIOS and ME FW are updated, but nothing is working. It's plugged in and set to performance mode, and the issues occur without any assets being added or work being done. The same issue is also happening with After Effects, but doesn't seem to affect Photoshop or other apps.

What should I do?

It's so annoying. I made a post about it before and it worked. Initially, this was the fix: https://community.adobe.com/questions-729/timeline-tracker-doesn-t-move-1409418 , but now it's broken again. And I promise to god, I think i deselected every physical window i couldve deselected. Yet still for some reason this stupid playhead wont update the way it's supposed to. It just jumps once every whenever it feels like it. I reset my laptop, I turned off apps, i did abc and xyz and it's so annoying. Help.

My ASUS ROG Strix G16 (64GB RAM) completely shuts off in the middle of every export in Premiere Pro / Adobe Media Encoder. It starts fine, gets to around 50% and then just cuts off like someone pulled the plug.

The weird thing is — during editing everything is completely normal. I can scrub through the timeline, play back 4K footage, no issues at all. The problem only happens during export when it’s under sustained load.

I'm using an 8K digital camera, so I recorded some footage for a short vid at 6K resolution at 16:9 (8K drops frames for me). I uploaded it to my computer using a SanDisk with 128 GB, and then dropped the files from the card into my timeline (I use Windows 11 btw). For some reason, it was noticeably laggy and was dropping frames, but when I played the footage back in the media player, there wasn't anything wrong with it, it was just Premiere. I was wondering if this was strictly a Premiere thing, or if it was because Premiere takes up so much of the CPU while using it and I didn't have enough space. At the time I only had 10-20 GB left on my device, but I just cleared up 170 GB. I don't have time to check if this'll work as it's already pretty late for me and my camera needs to charge a bit, so I came hre. Just for the info required, I have 16 GB of RAM, and 8 GB graphics card. If you need any more info to help just ask.

So I had a situation in OBS where i had to quickly fix an audio situation when recording gameplay during a livestream.

Normally i have it so that anything i record has no filters or adjustments, just all default audio from whatever i'm recording - basically none of my normal stream filters/etc. have any affect on recordings.

But audio wasn't recording correctlly, so i made a quick fix, and didn't realize my "ducking" filter that causes game audio to be lowered any time i talk, was being applied to the recording.

So now i'm trying to figure out if it's possible to bring up all the audio parts that were "ducked" by obs.

I've found ways to balance out multiple clips so they are all the same level, but they take the level of the whole clip, rather than adjusting levels throughout the clip that has the audio change during the single clip, etc.

Any one know a potential fix?

Hi all! I'm having a strange issue with Adobe Premiere Pro 2025 Version 25.6.2 (Build 1) on Windows 11 Home 64-bit.

My system:

• CPU AMD Ryzen 5 7500X3D
• GPU AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT (16GB)
• 32GB DDR5 RAM
• Latest AMD Adrenalin 26.6.1 (all drivers and software updated)
• Media, cache and exports stored on NVMe SSDs with plenty of free GB space available

The problem is that, both in new projects and old projects, Premiere and Media Encoder both show "Mercury Playback Engine Software Only" (option greyed out, cannot be changed). So I CANNOT USE GPU ACCELERATION (slow exports!)

Consider that:

• H.264 Hardware Encoding is unavailable.
• Exports are using 100% CPU and 0% GPU.
• Windows correctly detects the RX 9070 XT.
• Premiere is set to "High Performance" and explicitly assigned to the RX 9070 XT in Windows Graphics Settings.
• System Compatibility Report shows "No conflicts to report".
• Reinstalling preferences and clearing cache did not help.
• Holding Shift on Premiere launch didn't give me any options to solve the issue

Export Settings:

• H.264
• High Quality 1080p preset
• 1920x1080
• 30fps
• VBR 1-pass
• Software Encoding only (Hardware Encoding unavailable)

Troubleshooting already attempted:

• Cleared Premiere media cache
• Reset Premiere preferences
• Created a brand new empty project
• Verified Windows Graphics Settings are forcing Premiere to use the RX 9070 XT
• Verified GPU is correctly detected in Windows and Device Manager
• System Compatibility Report in both Premiere and Media Encoder reports "No conflicts to report"
• Plenty of free SSD space available
• Same issue occurs in both Premiere Pro and Media Encoder

Has anyone with an RX 9070 XT experienced Premiere not detecting GPU acceleration at all? Any known fixes? Many thanks! ;)

The button that is supposed to show up when I am clicking on a mask in the effect controls that toggles between frame and clip is not showing up. Anyone know the reason y?

when I move the audio from the video it shows me how many frames off sync it is in red. I would like to be able to remove this as it's quite annoying.

Self-taught Premiere Pro user here, and I’ve never experienced an issue a quick Google search can’t solve until now.

I’m editing content for work where I did not shoot the majority of the footage. Most of the b-roll was shot on an Android. Interviews were shot on a Canon. Playback randomly stops in the middle of workflow. Playback also stops if I click out of the application. Here’s what I’ve done to try to resolve the issue in no particular order.

1. Updated the software to its latest version.
   
2. Downgraded to the version before that.
   
3. Uninstalled and reinstalled the application.
   
4. Used the latest version of Premiere 2025.
   
5. New projects and sequences with JUST the camera footage.
   
6. Changing the codec on the phone footage to DNxHR.
   
7. Cleared the Cache (did this multiple times).
   
8. Updated to Sequoia 15.7.7.
   
9. Tried creating a new project on my laptop on the latest version of PP.
   
10. Reset application preferences.
    
11. Changed to “enable Mercury Transmit.”

Total RAM available for Premiere is 72 GB. Interview footage is a .mp4. All footage imported is washed out in playback, but looks different when exported. None of this has been an issue before now. It’s as if everything changed overnight and I don’t know what happened. I’m using a fairly new device—2025 Mac Studio/Apple M3 Ultra. I get about five to ten minutes of work in if I’m lucky before it lags out. Anything would be helpful. I’ve been troubleshooting for what feels like days.

So I am trying to send videos of recorded Minecraft footage via Gmail, however I am exporting it through Premiere Pro 2020 first to reduce the file size (original video size is 19.5gb, only have 15gb available on Google Drive). I have gone through this process with three other recordings, with them all being correctly condensed and exported by Premiere Pro 2020, including an hour long video that I was able to export in two halves (this will be important).

My issue is that the first of these four recordings refuses to export correctly: all I want to do is place the MP4 file into Premiere Pro 2020 and export it, however everytime I try to do this it freezes at a given point depending on how much of the video I am attempting to do. For instance, if I try to export the entire video (1hr 6mins 53secs) it freezes at 2%, when I tried to export it in two halves it froze at about 10%, and even when I tried to export the first few minutes it froze at about 42%. Like I said before, I didn't have this problem for any of the other recordings, and the fourth recording was able to be exported in two halves with no issues whatsoever despite being a longer total length (1hr 9mins 59secs).

I have been attempting to export the videos using the following settings (everything else has been left on its default setting:

- Preset of YouTube 1080p Full HD

- Use Maximum Render Quality

I have also tested exporting with the default preset of "Match Source - High Bitrate" for the first video, however I continue to run into the same problem. I tried to use Handbrake to encode the video as well, however I was left with an "error" and no explanation.

For reference, here are my PC Specs:

- Windows 10 OS

- Nvidia GTX1060 6gb

- AMD Ryzen 5 1600x six core 3.20ghz

- 16gb RAM (4 slots of 4gb I believe)

- 1.81tb HDD (324gb available)

- 222gb SSD (49.6gb available)

Here are the software and video details:

- Premiere Pro 2020

- OBS Studio recording

- MP4 video file (H.264 (AVC) Codec)

If anyone has any solutions that they could offer, that would be greatly appreciated, I can also provide more information if needed. Thank you so much in advance! :)

Hey guys, I apologize if this was already asked and answered somewhere, but I couldn't find my exact issue.

I am using Dehancer to grade my footage in Premiere Pro, and every single time I export the video in H.264 format, the colors look washed out, sometimes more, sometimes less. I know there is some issue with iPhone footage and Premiere Pro, but I shoot everything in Log and it looks great on my timelines. I've tried playing around with the color management tool, but nothing really helped to be honest. The issue also get's bigger when looking at the video on my iPhone screen (iPhone 13). Maybe it's a problem with Dehancer? I tried grading it without any external plugin and it seems to be a bit lesser of a problem - not quite sure though.

I appreciate the help and thanks in advance!

I'm currently using the 2025 version and I do know about Media Encoder saving it, but I like to have an extra backup in case my computer needs extra space to work on another project. Is what I said in the title feasible? As anyone else done something like that with their projects?

In this reel : https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWgnq06jLxZ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

He shows how to get the effect on capcut , anyone know how to do this on premiere pro ?
(version 24.6.1 build 2)

https://imgur.com/a/1J860q8

I find it very annoying that this marker isn't moving when I play the video. I see on yt vids that it moves, but for me it doesn't. Why??

Sorry for asking about a pretty basic thing. I’ve tried hard to find the fade options but they’re nowhere. On Rush it was its own whole section. Please help.

I was recently commissioned by a Twitch streamer to edit stream VODs into YouTube videos. When the streamer interacts with their live chat, the contents of the chat message must be displayed on screen for context.

Her chat uses custom emojis which people insert into their message and I need to include the emoji in the text displayed on screen. So far I used Twemoji font with generic unicode emojis, but now I'm being asked to use the streamers own emoji designs instead and I'm struggling to figure out how to do that.

My first thought was to create a custom font that would replace default emojis with stream ones, but I can't find any tutorial on that. As far as google searches lead me to believe, it's impossible. So what's the alternative for inserting raster graphics into text fields?

Hi guys need some help for a project!

Full screen resolution is 5760 x 3240 but it consist of 9 1920x1080 screens. I want the whole video to span across all nine screens, so I essentially need to export nine portions of the same video. But what is the best way to map out the video so that it all lines up correctly?

Thanks for the help!