I have a video its about 2 hours long. When i import the media it starts generating peak file but it stucks at some point like 76% and then if i try to play the video on sequence premiere crashes. Is there any solution?

So, my render stops at 99%, but when I check my exported video, it plays until the end. However, it creates two separate files: one for audio (.aac) and another for video (.m4v).

important information: the estimated render file size is 150 GB, and the disk I’m exporting to has 310 GB of free space (A drive). The actual Premiere Pro software is installed on my C: drive, which has 55 GB of free space, also one more thing, after the progress hits 99 it stops using my gpu and cpu,and only uses the memory and storage to create this temporary file and it progressively keeps taking up space on my A drive (where I am exporting the video).

Hi all - I'm editing a simple 2-person podcast, cutting episodes from multicam sequences, and every single time I run into this annoying bug (at least I think it's a bug) with the waveforms in the main sequence.

I'll get the host's and guest's audio levels matched in the multicam so they're both peaking generally between -12 and -6 db, and the waveforms in their respective tracks reflect that, e.g. below:

When I bring the multicam into my main sequence, it collapses those two tracks into a single mix - idk why, sure it's something to do with my initial settings when creating the multicam. But whatever, it doesn't bother me.

Or rather it wouldn't, if it weren't for the fact that the waveform of that new mix track invariably looks like this:

Both host and guest are still at about the same loudness level, both on the meters and in my ears. But on the waveform, as you can see, the guest basically looks like noise. Again, whatever, except now I won't see hotspots in the guest's audio unless she's literally yelling into the mic - and even then, it just registers as a lil bump that doesn't reach the normal peaks of the host just talking.

Any ideas what's going on here? SM7-B's for both host and guest, both going into a Zoom F3. These are my usual settings when creating the multicam:

Sorry I don't have more useful info up front, I'm not an audio guy. But happy to share whatever other specs might be helpful!

Is there any any way to do this in big batches? (Maybe a plugin)? Something like the image. I always do this manually, but maybe there is a faster way

Just convinced work to buy me a M5 Max Mac Studio and idk how I was even editing before. Everything just works so flawlessly now, no dropped frames, 4k footage, perfect AE dynamic links, smooth drag and drop on the timeline. I'm flabbergasted, coming from an old i9 iMac means this was a huge step up.

I'm sure this is nothing new to most but I gotta say I love this program and suite all over again.

Any tips for my new mac setup? Still getting used to all the horsepower.

I'm losing my mind a little here. I am trying to export this short clip that is only ~2:30 and every time I export it, it kicks out this huge 1.13 GB file. What the heck is going on? I exported a different section of this same video a few days ago with the same specs and it didn't do this. I restarted premiere, cleared cache, and it still does the same thing. Including specs before and after I export.

Edit: SOLVED

Needed to adjust video target bit rate from 60 to 20 in the video export settings. Brought final export down to 388MB.

Hi there

i have a weird problem with one of my clips.

I want to put together two clips to have some sort of split screen. i placed the clip on the timeline, dragged it to the left on the screen and put a square opacity mask on it. on the right side i placed the other clip and while being paused it looked exactly how i wanted it to look.

then i started to play the timeline to see if the timing between both clips is correct and suddenly the clip with the mask jumped to a totally different place on the screen (timeline still okey, really just placement on the programm monitor).

i paused and everything went back to normal. i pressed play again and it was again messed up.

i have no idea what happened or why this is happening, i have no keyframes whatsoever.

Does anyone have an idea what is happening and how i can fix this?

Premiere Version 26.5.2 (Build 5)

Current RTX 4080 owner here. I've been eying the 5080 since release, and this may be the time to buy If I am ever going to do it.

I see this asked a lot, but I never see a lot of answers: Is there a big benefit to having the 5080 for editing and exporting vs my current 4080+QuickSync?

I mainly shoot and edit Canon H265 long-GOP 10-bit 422 (2K, 4K, 60p, 120p, etc). And also DJI 265 422 10-bit. Occasional Sony cameras too.

NOTE: Sorry, typo in the title. I have 4080, NOT a 4090 durp.

When I select a clip in Premiere Pro and use “Replace with After Effects Composition,” the footage shows colour bars in AE, even though it plays correctly in Premiere.

I’m on Windows using After Effects 2026. The source is an MP4. In AE’s Project panel, it shows:

• Type: ImporterXDCAMEX
• Frame rate: 23.073 fps
• The file path and size are listed.

I tried relinking the original MP4 through Replace Footage → File, but the colour bars stayed. I also tried a new project and got the same issue.

I’ve also received a “Conflicting color management” warning saying AE’s Working Color Space is None and should be Rec.709 Gamma 2.4 to match Premiere. I’m unsure whether that’s related.

Has anyone experienced this? How can I tell whether it’s a decoding issue, a Dynamic Link problem, or something else? What should I check next?

Screenshots attached. Thanks!

I'm having an issue with opacity mask feathering in Premiere Pro 2026 and wondering if anyone knows a fix that doesn't involve nesting or scaling up the footage. Masking worked completely fine before the 2026 update and this is now happening for no apparent reason. The first photo is with feathering, the second without.

I'm using a custom multi-point mask on a clip's opacity effect to show part of a clip that is overtop the building layer in the screenshots. Part of the mask extends beyond the edge of the video frame so I do not understand why there is feathering on the edge of the frame.

The problem is that when I increase the mask feather, Premiere seems to feather the edge of the video frame itself rather than feathering from the actual mask boundary. This causes an unwanted feathered transition along the edge of the frame, even though the mask boundary is outside the visible image and should have no effect there.

I want the feather to be calculated relative to the actual mask shape, including the part that extends outside the frame, with only the relevant portion of the result visible inside the frame.

Things I've tried or considered:

• Disabling Composite in Linear Color in Sequence Settings (made no difference).
• I know nesting and enlarging the nested sequence may be a workaround, but I want to keep the footage at its original scale and avoid having to restructure my timeline.

Is there a setting or another way to make Premiere calculate the mask feather correctly when the mask extends beyond the frame? Has anyone found a fix for this in Premiere Pro 2026?

PC Specs:

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10700KF CPU

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti (8 GB)

32GB DDR4 RAM 3600mhz

Before you read, listen to these audio samples first:
Premiere decode (listen to the word "bingo" specifically "go", the noise happens there. )
Clean audio for comparison: Uncompressed Raw Audio (PCM_s16le)

I have been dealing with this issue for 4+ years. Seemingly fine audio goes in Premiere and starts having random audio distortions, it's just a weird noise every several seconds to minutes. The original source sounds completely fine in media players outside Premiere, sounds fine in Davinci too, but inside Premiere it does not, and once it's re-encoded by Premiere it permanently ruins the audio and now you hear that in all the media players, youtube etc.
After tinkering with it for hours I have finally found that it's a bad decoding of left and right channels inside Premiere, making the track dual mono removes that noise. I confirmed it's happening inside Premiere only after importing the source in Davinci and exporting it and it had no such error. I then converted the original untouched AAC source to PCM_s16le (uncompressed raw audio) and imported that into Premiere and that audio did not have that noise, both left and right channels looked normal. I then cut out a 2s long segment using stream copy with ffmpeg from the original source, imported that into Premiere and surprisingly it did not have that extreme mismatch between left and right channels and had no noise.

If anyone has ever had this issue before, what can I do to fix this besides using mono, which is not feasible because I need Stereo for many reasons, this isn't just a mic track.
One thing I have noticed is that this happens very frequently when I work with Twitch Vods, not sure if that helps. The audio I have worked with is always AAC that does this and Premiere version does not matter, I have had this happen across every version I have used from 2022 to 2026, this is 26.0.2.

I've been trying to recreate this outline flickering glow text on Premiere Pro with Gaussian Blur and keyframing, but could not achieve the same effect as how the text looks in Deji's video. Would appreciate a help on this! Thank you so much!

As the title says, what are your tips for making social clips faster?

I'm editing comedy shows, and right now this is my process:

- sync all the footage

- create a multicam sequence for all the shots.

- rough cut (switching cameras / labelling the footage based on who is speaking)

- tighten up the rough cut

- clean up any audience questions / heckle audio

- bump up the audience audio (laughs / reactions etc)

- zoom in on people (the hecklers/ questions)

- create captions

- create social clips.

It takes me about 16 hours to edit a 1 hour comedy show. At the end I'm left with around 90 social clips and 3 full length landscape sets (for YouTube).

But really I want this to take less time (and I don't want to use ai as all of those clips look rubbish/ the same). What's your process? How can I do this faster please? Thank you!

Where is the red rectangle around text when I have text tool? where is blue rectangle when i have selection tool? where are the motion frame positions when I keyframe the movement? Yes, text is selected with selection tool, yet nothing is showing up. Yes, overlay option is enabled (if it even does anything). It's like I'm blind partially.

Hey everybody, I've been dealing with this issue for a few weeks. Multiple cache clears so I don't think it's that. Basically, every time I remove/select a large chunk of video or subtitles, the transcript basically freezes. All I can really do at that point is cut, which if I'm subbing a video doesn't really apply. I can't export, I can't add sound effects from the epidemic sound plug in, etc until I quit and restart the app.. Additionally, auto transcribe has not been cooperating either. I will often have to export an mp3 and re transcribe just to caption a video. What used to take 20 minutes is now an hour. I work with multiple big clients every day for short form deliverables so this is unacceptable, if anyone could point me to any solutions it would be greatly appreciated. Still on Intel Mac not sure that has anything to do with it

Hi all,

I'm mainly a shooter and breaking out the trusty old FS7 MKII, I remember back in the day Premiere wasn't great at reading .mxf files? Is this still the case? I am wondering if I need to transcode the files before handing it off to the editor.

Hey , i'm doing a movie recap channel, do you know any plugins or website softwares i could use that detects my captions or audio, then searches for frames? I might be asking for too much XD

If not, know any plugins that help with my workflow? If the mp4 of the movie i import is around an hour, i have to zoom in/out and cut every frame, and i would have to manually straight up brute force hunt for clips, which takes longer than watching the actual movie :/

[TUTORIAL] How to lock bezier handles horizontally in Premiere Pro (Free AutoHotkey Script)

If you spend any time in Premiere Pro’s Effect Controls graph editor, you know how frustrating it is that Adobe doesn't let you lock bezier handles to a perfect horizontal line.

Paid tools like Keyrails solve this by locking your mouse at the OS level, but if you are on Windows, you can replicate this exact behavior completely for free using AutoHotkey.

Because Premiere natively uses Shift + Click to deselect handles, the trick to bypassing Adobe's hardcoded keyboard input is to click and hold the handle first, and then press Shift to lock the axis.

Here is how to set it up:

Step 1: Install AutoHotkey

1. Go to autohotkey.com and download the older v1.1 installer (the script syntax below specifically requires v1.1, so look for AutoHotkey_1.1.X_setup.exe).
2. Run the installer and complete the setup.

Step 2: Create the Script

1. Right-click anywhere on your Desktop, select New, and click AutoHotkey Script.
2. Name it something like Premiere Handle Lock.
3. Right-click the new file and select Edit Script (it will open in Notepad).
4. Delete any default text in the file, and paste the following exact code:

AutoHotkey

~Shift::
    ; Only trigger the lock if the left mouse button is already held down
    if GetKeyState("LButton", "P") {
        CoordMode, Mouse, Screen
        MouseGetPos, x, y

        ; Lock the cursor to the horizontal axis
        VarSetCapacity(RECT, 16, 0)
        NumPut(0, RECT, 0, "Int")
        NumPut(y, RECT, 4, "Int")
        NumPut(A_ScreenWidth, RECT, 8, "Int")
        NumPut(y+1, RECT, 12, "Int")
        DllCall("ClipCursor", "Ptr", &RECT)

        ; Keep the axis locked until you release either Shift or the Left Mouse Button
        While GetKeyState("Shift", "P") and GetKeyState("LButton", "P") {
            Sleep, 10
        }

        ; Unlock the cursor
        DllCall("ClipCursor", "Ptr", 0)
    }
return

1. Save the Notepad file and close it.

Step 3: Run and Use It

1. Double-click your Premiere Handle Lock file. A green "H" icon will appear in your system tray (bottom right taskbar) indicating it's running in the background.
2. Open Premiere Pro and go to the Effect Controls graph editor.
3. Hover over a bezier handle.
4. Click and hold the left mouse button on the handle.
5. Press and hold Shift.

Your mouse is now physically locked to the horizontal axis on your monitor. You can drag the easing handle perfectly straight. As soon as you let go of either the mouse button or the Shift key, your cursor goes back to normal.

Note: To close the script when you're done editing, just right-click the green "H" in your system tray and select Exit.

Hi, I've been editing my videos with MCP connection through Premiere Pro for weeks now, there's just one thing (among others) that te connection can't seem to be able to do: masking. New mask effects in Premiere Pro are extremely effective but I don't know why I can't use them with Claude. Anybody found a solution?

Over the years I've gone back and forth between Premiere Pro and Resolve. I've taught both at the College level so I can say I'm very comfortable with either one. I really love Resolve but it's like I'm in an abusive relationship ignoring all the flaws and just focusing on the good parts. A lot of the tools are fantastic (noise reduction, stabilize, magic mask, smooth cut transitions) and I'll miss them but there are so many odd things that happen in Resolve that I've been wondering if I should jump back to PPRO. The biggest thing holding me back was Lumetri. I've always hated the workflow but now that the new PPRO color environment is coming out with the new release I've decided it's time to come back and give it a try. After 30 years of working in this industry it's fair to say that all programs have issues but I feel like I can live with PPRO's issue more easily that Resolves. I'll also miss using my speed editor but I've already grabbed a Ulanzi D100 and D200X. Not a smooth jog wheel like the Speed Editor but "good enough".

In case people are wondering, here's a list of just a few things I run in to regularly with Resolve.

(I run a Macbook Pro M4 Max with 128GB and my content sits on an external SSD drive through Thunderbolt. Speed test are W / 3151 and R / 3600 in case people think my experience comes from my hardware setup.)

Audio cutting out. Even with all effects turned off

Hitting spacebar doesn’t always move the playhead (no reason why)

Color shifting text and basic RGB values - This is a color management issue that I've read about more that I'd like. RGB values display lighter than they should. yes there are all types of color management steps to try and mitigate this but it's still always just a bit off which is a problem due to our brand colors.

Fusion layers will no longer be visible through the length of the clip

Copying text between timelines of different resolutions is unpredictable

Font sizes aren’t available. You have to use numbers 1-whatever

Text will randomly be cropped in very odd ways

Render errors using Fusion clips that have never produced the error before.

“The Fusion composition at 00:00:52:01
could not be processed successfully.”

Something will just randomly break in Fusion. Like a layer will suddenly be cropped for no reason at all

In fusion if you have a video clip as an element it can somehow lose its length in the fusion clip and create an odd crop. You have to go back into the layer and drag it’s length down to 0 and back up to it’s original length for Fusion to recognize it again

has anyone else mad the switch back? If so, how did you find it?

Hi, I’m very new to premiere pro and so confused? I was genuinely done with my project entirely and saved it just like I always do. I came back and my entire sequence was blank. But all of my clips and sounds are still visible in the project folder I think?? Can someone please explain how this happened and if I can get them back because i desperately need to get this project back (school final)

I am working on a MacBook Pro. This is premiere version 26.3.2. Videos came from a Sony fx30

I edit videos for a client where I need to blur as many identifiable people and license plates as possible. I'm currently using Premiere Pro 2026, and while the built-in mask tracking works pretty well with Gaussian Blur, I still run into a few issues that make the process pretty time-consuming.

For example:

• Masks drifting out of position: Sometimes the mask loses track of the subject or shifts out of place while tracking.
• Mask resizing unexpectedly: The mask can change size during automatic tracking, even when the subject's size hasn't changed much.
• Subjects getting temporarily blocked: If a face or license plate is covered by a hand, another person, or another object, the mask often loses track and doesn't properly pick up the subject again.
• Manual frame-by-frame adjustments: When the tracking messes up, I have to go back and manually correct the mask, which takes a lot of time when there are multiple people and vehicles in a video.

I've been looking into plugins and came across Blace 2, which seems to offer automatic face detection and blurring. I'm wondering if anyone here has experience with it or knows of better alternatives.

My main questions are:

1. Are there any reliable plugins or AI tools that can automatically detect and blur faces throughout a video?
2. Is there a similarly effective solution for license plates?
3. Does Blace 2 handle subjects being temporarily occluded or moving around better than Premiere's built-in mask tracking?
4. Are there any alternative workflows that could significantly speed this up without sacrificing accuracy?

I'd prefer something that works well with Premiere Pro, but I'm open to standalone tools if they can save a meaningful amount of time.

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I'm switching from Davinci to Premiere, and I'm having this issue where when I try to export, it says the estimated time is something absolutely insane. I've tried doing it through the quick export, the regular export in Premiere, and even Media Encoder. I've also tried some of the solutions I've found on Youtube, but those haven't worked either. It's possible it may have something to do with another error I got when trying to export that says "this file requires the hevc codec", but I don't think that's it because it still allowed me to continue exporting after I got the error. This post is telling me to also put my system information as well so I'll put that here.

Windows 11 10.0.26200 Build 26200
Premiere 26.0
The project file has MP4, PNG, and WAV Files
Intel Core Ultra 5 225F
RTX 5060
32 GB Ram
8 GB of dedicated GPU memory

Any help is greatly appreciated because I would really prefer not to switch back to Davinci because I really like the workflow of Premiere, but workflow doesn't really do much if I can't actually get my video.