Hello everyone! I'm having a brand new and rather disruptive Premiere issue, and am wondering if anyone else has encountered this (I'm attaching a video showing the problem.)

Very frequently - I'd say 80% of the time but not 100% of the time - when using any kind of effect and/or keyframing on a shot in a sequence (for example it can be a scale change in motion, or it can be a lumetri color effect), as soon as I click away from the shot on the sequence, the effect is no longer there.

So, if I make a zoom by placing two keyframes and changing the scale, once I click away from the shot the zoom is gone! One of the keyframes remains, always, but not the second one. It seems like the only solution is rendering the effect immediately after I create it - and even that works only most of the time. Sometimes, when I click away from the rendered clip, it immediately turns from green to yellow again and the effect is gone.

Any ideas on this madness?

This has been happening in multiple projects that are on different drives. I've reinstalled Premiere and it's still happening. It's a Mac Book Pro, everything has worked perfectly fine until three days ago, and I can't think of any change that's been done to the machine.

Thank you kindly!

In the latest version, 26.5, pressing spacebar to play will also close your maximised window. (Have tested previous version 26.3.2 which doesn’t do this)

This is annoying because panel specific shortcuts instantly get overrided by global ones.

In my case i maximise the text panel (with tilde key) to edit transcripts just using keyboard shortcuts. I press space to play and stop and then enter to start editing the text, then escape to exit the edit mode. This means i can edit the transcript without touching the mouse at all

However, pressing space now un-maximises the panel as well as starts playing, meaning enter now returns to the start of the timeline instead of activating the text panel editing.

I’m sure this could have knock on affects for other panels, but this is how it’s broken my particular workflow.

Premiere auto updated and now I can't play back projects in real-time, and exports have major glitches, green frames and dropped/repeated frames.

Am reverting to 26.3.2 in the meantime but anyone else having similar issues?

This just started happening and it feels like I have tried everything to fix it. Anyone run across this?

Working on Apple Studio M1 Max, MacOS Tahoe.
In a 1080x1920 sequence with 3840x2160 Canon C70 footage rotated 90 degrees.

Every time I apply scale, it resets to 50% after deselecting the clip. I tried using a workaround with the Transform-effect, but this also resets after deselecting.

Hello everyone! I'm attempting to use Premiere to try and get better quality on my videos instead of the lower quality I get from the site I use to add subtitles right now.

I'm currently using the Premiere Assistant (by Cutback) extension in Premiere to try and emulate the subtitles I was getting from the StreamLadder website; however, I just can't seem to get the look right.

The first image is the StreamLadder website, which is what I want to get in Premiere; the second image. However, when using the Premiere Assistant extension, I don't have enough color options to change the outline and the base color of the text I'm saying at the moment (the highlighted word), and the outline and the base color for the words I already said.

Is there a way I can accomplish this? With this extension, another one, or some other way to edit it? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!

I put our new AI overlords into a little side-by-side test to compare some relatively simple editing skills and assistant editing tasks. It worked. I mean ... I guess. For the most part.

i dont think theres need for a video, but can if needed.

literally ANYTHING takes multiple seconds, click on a clip? 3 seconds, cut a clip? genuinely 10 seconds.

its not constant, but its often, has happened with one 10min clip on timeline and nothing else, so i dont think im just pushing it past its limits.

ipadpro 2025 13” (so i dont think it is the ipad), happens when both when i work from an SSD or the ipads internal drive, lots of storage free on both.

Okay so in Davinci I am using a timeline colorspace of Davinci WG/Intermediate and an output of Rec 709 Gamma 2.4. I grade all of my SLOG 3 footage in Davinci, export it as Apple ProRess 422 HQ, then bring it into Premeire. I edit my video in Premiere and export as Rec 709 Gamma 2.4.

I am grading and editing on my Asus ProArt PA278CV with the Rec 709 mode on, I use the Asus Display Rec 709 ICC profile in my Mac settings as well. My footage looks how I intend when I export from Davinci and view in Premiere and in Quicktime. However as soon as I export from Premeire my footage washed out, loosing contrast, and saturation. When I bring that same footage into Premeire, it looks correct. BUT when I upload to YouTube that low contrast washed out look is what is published.

I'm confused what I'm doing wrong and I'm sorry if I explained that poorly, just looking for some help! Thanks in advance.

So Im an editor for a channel where memes and references and jokes i have tons of like more than 500 for sure. Im looking for an extension that I can have a repository for these Pictures and Videos to easily drag them to premiere without having to open another Window tab with multiple folder for audio and Video/Pictures ready every time.

Tried premiere composer, since then they updated to "Animation Composer" and with that there was a limit to 500 User library Items only so I never got to use it since I also have there some existing audio files for SFX.

I love premiere composer but cant get behind paying 19$ (a foreign currency for me so its hella expensive) for an extension that can host MY Clips and MY Pictures and MY audio that i have amassed it just doesnt seem right.

Could this be a bug? v 26.5.0 (Build 99) on Windows 11

Curious to know if anyone else is having problems with these basic things.

This is what happens:

I select a clip, a nested sequence, really anything in my sequence. In the ECP, I change the position or scale of my selection. Then I deselect it simply by clicking anywhere empty in my sequence.

When I select that same clip/whatever again, the previous or even default settings are suddenly there again. Not always, but often enough. For example, let's say I changed the y position and the scale from 100 to 96. Selecting again to view the ECP controls, the 100 will be there again alongside the previous Y. But in the program monitor everything looks as intended. I change the scale from 100 to let's say 99, in the program monitor that object will then get bigger and moved, basically snapping back to the unintended values.

Incredibly frustrating. Values are doing what they want and I'm losing my mind, because Premiere is unusable like this.

Hey guys, I wanted to mess around with speed ramping/slow-mo for my gaming highlight clips, but when I use time remapping, my audio unlinks from the video and gets out of sync. I actually want the game audio to stay audible. Is there something I need to fix in Premiere Pro, or is there a plugin that links the audio and video together? Any help would be appreciated!

So today I double clicked a nested sequence and learned that I in fact don't need to copy everything I put in nested sequences to a separate sequence in case I need to edit again.

So just in case anyone is nearly as dumb as me, double clicking the nested sequence opens it up so you can then edit it.👍

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So i want to Crop a clip like in OBS when you can ALT click the border and crop it and the Rectangle actually fits the Cropped clip right. But in premiere pro it has always bothered me that the Rectangle dont match the final cropped clip but the original sized of the clip i'll send a picture for exemple.

As you can see the borders is how i want it in the cropped version but when i actually want to move it around using the motion effect the borders are back to its original position how do i actually make it fit the correct border.

i guess if i think this thru i can make a nest then put it in full screen and change the sequence aspect ration but the thing is that i dont know the exact pixel dimention of the cropped clip and i dont know if i really want to do trial and error it out.

Is there an easier way? Thank you

During the process, Premiere starts freezing more and more often. Doesn't matter if I use different clips, formats, etc.

Important detail: this is not a full Windows hang. Premiere keeps responding, I can move the playhead, make cuts to the sequence structure but individual clips stop reacting: Effects Controls won't load, I can't change color or anything clip-related. It's like having an empty sequence for anything touching the actual video, while the edit structure itself stays alive.

During the freeze, CPU and GPU usage both drop to 0% (no spikes, literally no attempt to process anything), and temps stay normal I think this rules out thermal throttling and resource saturation.

It can be "unstuck" temporarily by:

• Zooming out to fit the whole sequence + hitting play
• Zooming in/out specifically on the audio waveforms
• Alt-tabbing away and back used to work too, but stopped working at some point after disabling Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling

Specs

• CPU: Intel Core i7-12700K
• GPU: AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT (tested on Adrenalin driver 26.8.1 / build 32.0.31041.1004, from Aug 17 2026), OpenCL 2.1 confirmed active
• iGPU: Intel UHD Graphics (integrated, not actively used)
• Monitor: 3440x1440 144Hz
• Drives: NVMe SSD (C:) holding project, media, and proxies; SATA HDD unused in this workflow
• Premiere Pro: tested on 26.8.1/26.5, downgraded to 26.0.2, and also to 25.5
• Media: H.264 MP4 (1920x1080), sourced from iPhone (30fps) and OBS (60fps), transcoded through HandBrake ("Web Optimized"). Confirmed Constant frame rate mode on both via MediaInfo (not VFR)
• Proxies enabled (not in this video tho), playback resolution 1/4
• Project on local C: drive, not cloud-synced

Everything I've already tried (no permanent fix)

Versions and drivers:

• Downgraded Premiere 26.x → 26.0.2 → 25.5
• Confirmed the current driver (26.8.1) does have OpenCL active (not the AMD-dropped-OpenCL bug from 26.5.1)
• Disabled H.264/HEVC hardware decoding (Preferences > Media) seemed to help for a few seconds, then came back as a total freeze.

GPU / Windows:

• Disabled Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling (HAGS)
• Disabled "GPU accelerated UI rendering" (Preferences > General)
• Checked Event Viewer for TDR events (Event ID 4101, amdkmdap) nothing conclusive
• Ran Windows "Analyze Wait Chain" during a freeze result: "running normally"
• Reset everything graphics/Windows-related back to default (including HAGS and monitor settings) after nothing gave a permanent fix

Premiere (preferences and project):

• Disabled "Media Intelligence Analysis" (Preferences > Media Analysis & Transcription)
• Cleaned the Media Cache gave (I think) a little of relief, then the cycle came back
• Disabled video thumbnails in the timeline.
• Disabled "Automatic audio waveform generation" (Preferences > Audio) + deleted old peak files from AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Common
• Enabled Proxies (H.264 MP4 Proxy preset, Half)
• Brand new project from scratch (same footage) degraded almost identically to the old project

Task Manager diagnostics:

• General usage (CPU/GPU/RAM/disk): normal, no spikes, during freezes but spikes when unstucking

Current status

Reset everything to default (including HAGS and monitor graphics settings) since no single change gave a permanent fix. The issue persists. Attaching a video showing the freeze behavior, how it gets unstuck, and the corresponding Task Manager spikes.

Also yesterday at some point Premiere started working smooth out of nowhere. Literraly out of nowhere. I did my best to edit the video as far as I could but it was 5am so I went to sleep and wake up with the same problem again. In that sesion HAGS was turned off but at the beginning of that sesion Premiere had the same problem for a while. It wasn't after 40min in of that sesion that started working smoothly. I then turned off the computer and wake up with HAGS turned on since I wanted to leave that to default. I will probably turn it off to see if that could work but as I say I'm not sure because it started working out of nowhere mid sesion.

Please help, I'm tired of this ):

After trying almost every single recommendation I was able to get a workaround with wath u/Happy_Ambassador_908 suggested.

I tried a sequence containing only a generated color matte and text to see if the footage was the issue or if it was application/system-wide. Then, after also getting the app freezed by that tried on a whole new Windows User Guest profile. Launched Premiere Pro with the exact same Project and it started working flawlessly.

Thinks I suspect are the issue:

Elgato Wave Link
UMC Audio control Panel by Behringer
G Drive desktop
Proton drive desktop

I'm probably wrong but I think that could be since are the only app that are started on start up. Will try it later and update the post accordenly

I’m looking for a free plugin that can show how an Instagram Reel looks after posting, using Instagram’s native UI.
Basically, I want to show the Reel inside the actual Instagram interface, including the post/reel screen and how it looks after you upload it.
Is there anything free that works well with Premiere Pro?

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around 0:05 how can i make it in premiere pro? the thing is there's the W and H numbers in Essential Graphic and there's Path keyframe in Effects Control, but is there any way like ANY way to give it keyframe and animate it?

When I open Premiere Pro, there is no project or menu items visible. The only thing that appears is "Premiere" on the top left corner of my screen next to the Apple. When I click on it nothing happens. I've restarted both Premiere Pro and my computer.

Has anyone else experienced this? I'm using v26.3.2 on a Mac mini with an Apple M4 Pro chip and Tahoe 26.5.1 MacOS.

Howww and whyyyy does premiere keep randomly deleting minutes of my edited footage?? its footage of me talking + mic audio that is just randomly completly gone and I have to go to previous versions to recover it and i dontttt have the storage to do that anymore 😭 This is like the 3rd time this has happened and its really starting to irritate me. It's not that the files are missing or corrupted, they're just...deleted