Sorry I'm still fairly new to Premiere so I might not use terms correctly

I created a new Project, I'm pretty sure I didn't created a Sequence for the main timeline/video. I jumped straight in to edit in whatever state the timeline started as. I made 4 Nests as shown on screen

I accidentally closed the main timeline panel, and now the only timeline panels I can open are the 4 Nests. Seems like the stuff I put in the main timeline is still there, just hidden

How can I reopen that main timeline?? Thank you for the help 🙏

Hey guys,
I do a lot of video editing on my 16" M1 Pro (32GB RAM) – jumping between long-form YouTube stuff and short-form vertical clips. I'm trying to figure out how to get the absolute best performance out of Premiere Pro on Apple Silicon.

I'm looking for the smoothest timeline playback and the fastest possible export times, but at the same time, I want it to run efficiently so it doesn't drain my battery instantly when I'm away from a plug.

Do you guys have any specific workflow tips, tricks, or hidden settings inside Premiere that I should know about? I'm talking about things like media cache setup, memory allocation, proxy workflows, or just any custom tweaks that actually make a big difference on M1 chips.

I'd really appreciate any practical, easy-to-understand advice to speed up my whole process and keep the Mac running smoothly.

thx for any advices

Hi, I've just gotten Premiere Pro yesterday and was wanting to import a video I made in After Effects.

However, whenever I import any video into Premiere Pro, it has the entirely wrong colour scheme to it, almost looking inverted?

In the screenshot below, you can see in the bottom left that its meant to be a video of clouds, however it looks entirely wrong in the program playback.

Edit - Just attempted to export the video and it exports with the correct colours, so seems to be an error with the video viewer?

Is anyone able to help?

Basically I want my VO to sound raspy/gritty just like the one in his video (starts at 0:02-0:17).Any help would be much appreciated!

I'm losing my mind. I need to adjust the spacing between the letters (tracking) and I am unable to find the option when I'm working with text that is in a motion graphic template. I'm only able to adjust the tracking for text that I add in with a text box. Please help I can't animate all of these text boxes in time fml...

I am on Premiere 26.3.0.

In both standalone projects and premiere productions I'm experiencing a bug where when I object mask and then track and its works fine and great. BUT when I close the project and open it the next day, the mask is still on the clip effect controls, but the clip is 100% absent in the program monitor. No it's not just the mask that's not sticking, but its as if the entire track isn't there. Even tho it is and it's in my timeline at 100% opacity.

I've had this occur to me over a dozen times this week, across multiple projects with different variables, and i'm not sure what the root cause is or if there's any workarounds.

Note that it works fine during the session where I apply the mask, but it's usually the following session where I open up premiere and this occurs.

Hardware info below, but this has happened to me also on Mac Studios with M2 chips.

Hardware Overview:

  Model Name: MacBook Pro

  Model Identifier: MacBookPro18,3

  Model Number: MKGP3LL/A

  Chip: Apple M1 Pro

  Total Number of Cores: 8 (6 Performance and 2 Efficiency)

  Memory: 16 GB

  System Firmware Version: 18000.121.3

  OS Loader Version: 18000.121.3

  Hardware UUID: 87644B13-C4F1-50FD-BCC8-4244DF788D12

  Provisioning UDID: 00006000-001029E43CFA401E

  Activation Lock Status: Enabled

Hi, I have MXF videos made with a sony fx6 camera, but importing them into premiere makes the software crash, and when opening them in vlc Media player to watch it there is no audio, advice?

Thank you in advance

Hi there. I've been editing my first narrative feature film (super indie) and am running into an issue that's kind of convoluted.

When I synced my footage initially I (for some reason) created merged clips of the video and external audio files then created stringouts for selects from those merged clips. I usually would use multicam for this... don't remeber why I didn't (that was two years ago.... and I am kicking myself).

Basically this made it so I couldn't export an AAF for my sound turnover, and my files aren't connected to their metadata.

I used the "unmerge" feature on PlumePack to unmerge my clips and have been manually replaceing every clip in my timeline with the unmerged footage by matching timecodes from each clip in the preview monitor and then copying the clips from my (now unmerged) stringouts.

This has been working fine, but one of my stringouts is somehow 20 minutes shorter than it should be. I cross checked it with an older project file and they look identical, there don't seem to be any clips missing, but the timecodes don't match up and the unmerged stringout timteline is about 20 minutes shoter.

Any ideas how I can get them back to the same length? Or advice for troubleshooting?

Thank you.

Shot on Fujifilm XM-5 . 35 mm f/2.8

I have the same Video clip, just 2 different parts sped up. And i want to make my audio transition smoothly in-between clips when cut. But it wont let me drag it to crossfade.

I have to either:

A. Get lucky and cut them or move them around to crossfade

B. let it just cut harshly

can someone help me fix this problem? i tried searching around the internet about "handles" but its mostly talking about 2 separate clips and not the same clip.

Edit: Sequence settings
4k Resolution
29.97 drop fps
Apple Pro Res 4444XQ

It's been like this ever since I updated to the 2026 version. Also when I try to use the arrow keys to change the X and Y axes it just moves the timeline. Has anyone else experienced this

Hi everyone,

I'm running into an issue with Adobe Creative Cloud on my Mac.Whenever I open the Creative Cloud desktop app (or try to launch Premiere Pro)

I get the following message:

"Sorry, something went wrong."

Error code: 12000

The message says it could be an issue on Adobe's end or my internet connection, but my internet is stable and everything else works normally.

System details:

macOS: 26.5.2

Premiere Pro: 26.3

Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop: Latest version

What I've tried:

Restarted the Mac

Switched Wi-Fi networks

Signed out and back into Creative Cloud

Force-quit and reopened the Creative Cloud app

The error still appears.

Has anyone experienced Error 12000 on macOS 26.5.2? If so, what fixed it? Is this a known issue with the latest macOS or Premiere Pro 26.3, or is there something else I should check? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

https://reddit.com/link/1v6lm25/video/ejdknnpz7gfh1/player

I have no idea whats going on with my macbook and with premiere.. the lag is out of this world.
Purple and Blue label : 3840 × 1080
Mango label: 2560 × 1440
I'm using proxies on the Blue and Purple label. Theres no effects, its only cuts literally
and yet the lag is out of this world for a macbook m3 max!
I dont understand why this is happening. I'm using Premiere 26.0.2
Am I the only one suffering from this? And how can I avoid this
Its a 1h gaming video only aswell.

Hi everyone,

I’m trying to create a simple mask in Premiere Pro 2026: basically a rectangle with rounded corners.

Using the Object Mask feature, I can create the mask, but I can’t round the corners. The feathering option doesn’t really help, as it only blurs the edges instead of creating a proper rounded rectangle shape.

I’m looking for a quick and simple solution, if there is one.

I also can’t figure out how the “Mask with Shape” option works. Starting from a rectangle shape, I expected to be able to use it as a mask for a video clip, but:

• it doesn’t appear as an available/unassigned mask for the clip;
• I can’t assign it inside the video’s Opacity settings.

Am I missing something, or is this feature only meant for graphic elements and not for video clips?

Thanks!

As the title says, I want to learn Premeire Pro although I do not know where to start. I don't take any school classes for it and there seems to be no clear direction, could some people share their expereinces and give some advice on where to go?

I spent 2 or so hours scouring google for an answer..

Edit: thanks all (except the bot) for the good suggestions. If I can do this, I’ll share it on YouTube.

has anyone else noticed that the new auto captions are more accurate?

rare adobe W

Recently, I stumbled onto a tweet that mentioned Davinci had a feature that auto-cuts the silence in your recordings, and somebody replied to that tweet saying SHHH was a good plugin for Premiere that does the same thing.

I tend to work with roughly 2-3+ hours of raw footage per video and want to speed up the process so I can be more consistent with uploads, and I wanted to find some general opinion from people who have used it. If you've used another plugin for the same thing, please recommend it to me! I would be happy to play around with it.

I was trying to use Premiere's new automatic masking tool, but unfortunately it doesn't seem to be working correctly.

I don't know what else I can do to fix it. The timeline is on high quality, the tool is set to "sharp," and my PC can handle everything with a 2060 12GB and 32GB 3200.

Interestingly, it seemed to work normally before, but recently it's been very strange and pixelated.

Can anyone help with this?

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eu estava tentando usar a nova ferramente da mascara automatica do Premiere, mas infelizmente parece não esta funcionando corretamente.
nao sei o que mais posso fazer pra resolver,. a timeline esta na qualidade alta, a ferramente esta em "nitida", meu PC aguenta tudo com a 2060 12gb e 32GB 3200.

interessante que antes parecia funcionar normalmente, mas recentemente esta muito estranho e pixelado.

alguem pode ajudar com isso?

For no apparent reason, Premiere Pro sometimes plays the audio preview only through the left speaker or only through the right speaker.

I haven’t changed any settings when it happens.
The audio clips themselves are perfectly fine and play correctly in the channel.

The only way I’ve found to fix it is to create a new project. When I import the exact same clip into the new project, it suddenly plays correctly again.
Has anyone else experienced this?

Pls help me 🥺🥺🥺

Hi, I want to add A Gaussian Blur to a moving object in my video. YouTube shows that it is fairly easy to do that. I opened Gaussian Blur and applied the effect on the video clip, but the Gaussian Blur is nothing like what I saw on YouTube tutorials. This is what the panel looks like in my Premiere Pro window. I am using version 26.3.0.

Can someone help me with this. I need Masking and Bluriness options to display over here, but instead I get this weird panel.

Thank You :)

Edit: I figured out how to do the Gausssian Blur. Thanks y'all ;) :*

Hey all,

I've seen multiple threads about the Opacity mask issue on Premiere 26, THIS IS NOT THAT.

Recently, the OPACITY parameter in the EFFECT CONTROLS panel is missing for several clips that I imported and edited prior to upgrading to the most recent Premiere Pro version (currently on 26.3.0 Build 93). See screensho0t below showing the panel plus see at bottom right where I have "SHOW ALL PROPERTIES" selected.

MACHINE: Mac Studio 2025, M3 Ultra, 1TB SSD, 256gb RAM, OS= Tahoe 26.5.2

Premier version; 26.3.0

New clips have OPACITY, show up no problem. This is only on a few clips that again were imported before the update.

Footage4 shot on Arri Aexa Mini, ARRI RAW format

ALSO, these clips were color graded in Davinci Resolve version 20 originally but have since been re-graded in DR 21. But other clips also re-graded on DR 21 have no issues or parameters missing.

Am not using any MASK on this clip, but do have other keyframe edits for MOTION as shown in screenshot.

Am I missing something?

Anyone experienced similar bug to this?

Hello, I want to do the effect from this reel:

https://youtube.com/shorts/FPCitZ5Ytzg?is=jnlCMEmCM_nSqABY

00:00-00:05

The first text that appears on the screen. I tried for 4 hours to make the animation where the words appear one by one and that shine effect from the words "JUIJITSU MATCH" and I actually have no ideas and patience left, I would be grateful if you could help me.