r/premiere

I’m developing a Premiere Pro plugin that separates audio into individual stems.

Everything works fine when the user selects an audio file. The issue comes up when they select a video.

To separate the audio from a video, my plugin automatically launches Adobe Media Encoder to extract the audio first. My question is: do most Premiere Pro users actually have Media Encoder installed?

I’m trying to decide between two approaches:

• Automatically support video files by launching Media Encoder behind the scenes (if it’s installed).
• Only allow users to select audio files and assume they’ll extract the audio themselves if they’re working with a video.

From a user experience perspective, which approach would you prefer? I’d love to hear how you normally handle this in your workflow.

I know this question could also be asked in a developer-focused community, but I’m specifically looking for feedback from video editors since they’re the people who would actually be using the plugin.

I always record separate audio tracks for Discord, in-game audio, and my mic. But I'm editing a video of mine where some clips are from a game that uses proximity voice chat.

Before recording, I always make sure to increase my friend's in-game voice volume as much as possible. Even then, I have no clue how to emphasize their voice during editing without just manually adding keyframes to lower the game audio whenever they talk.

For my mic and Discord tracks, I use compression, but for games with in-game voice chat I don't really know what the best approach is since it's all on one audio track. A compressor feels wrong because it'd also bring up footsteps, gunshots, and other random sounds that I don't want to boost.

Is there a better workflow for this, or is manual keyframing basically the only option?

Hi guys, been trying to motion blur under transform using shutter angle and nothing seems to be working. I tried nesting it and unchecking the composition shutter angle and it still doesnt work even if I crank it up to 360. Been at this for hours.

This also applies for Media Encoder.

Can Adobe Premier Pro export a .mkv format? I know it can import but can it export? I tried looking it up but I can't find a concrete answer. I looked on the list of format can't find Matroska our MKV. I also looked at all the presets for H.264 / H.264 blue ray and still nothing. Maybe it doesn’t exist just looking for a definitive yes or no

Hey everyone,

I'm trying to open a Premiere Pro 2026 project in Premiere Pro 2023, but I'm completely stuck.

The thing is, this project is extremely simple. It only contains:

• A few video clips
• Some basic cuts
• One audio track

There are no advanced Premiere Pro 2026 features being used—no AI tools, no Generative Extend, no Auto Translate, no new effects, no Motion Graphics, no third-party plugins, nothing. It's literally just a basic edit.

Here's what I've tried:

• ✅ Used the Premiere Pro Downgrader website.
• ✅ It successfully created a downgraded .prproj file.
• ❌ But when I open that file in Premiere Pro 2023, I get this error:

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• Is the project actually damaged?
• Is the downgrader not converting something correctly?
• Has anyone else had this issue even with a very simple project?

I don't understand why it won't open because there aren't any features that Premiere Pro 2023 shouldn't be able to handle.

Has anyone successfully downgraded a 2026 project to 2023?

If you've found a solution, please let me know. I'm really hoping I don't have to recreate the entire edit from scratch.

Thanks in advance, guys! 🙏

Hey all,

Like the title says. I have been editing with premiere for many years now and suddenly it seems to have become unusable.

I started a new project, load my footage and when i do the program just completely locks. It freezes and doesn’t respond. When it seems back to normal and i click my mouse it freezes again. Absolutely unusable.

Im using a HP victus:
Intel i7-13620
16GB Ram
Nvidia Geforce 4070
Editing from external ssd

I know 32GB is recommended but this problem happend so abruptly i cant imagine that’s the problem.

Thanks in advance

I am writing this, very pissed and dissapointed, as I am once again going through the agony of the Premiere "killing" my laptop. I need an advice and I really hope someone has one.

I've bought my MSI Vector a few months ago, specs: intel core ultra9, 64gb ram, rtx 5080 16gb ... And of course everything works amazing on it, except for one thing: Premiere. And hear this: its not that it doesnt load videos or that previews are stuck, the problem happens once I want to "reorder or resize" inner windows in Premiere, for example if i want to see my timeline higher and I drag the upper border to resize it, the thing completely freezes. Then parts of the Premiere become black and then minute by minute it "moves" that border but everything is glitchy and I cant even move my mouse etc.

The worst part is that it doesnt affect only Premiere but my whole computer once it happnes. I cant close Premiere because everything is stuck, and then when I try to open task manager via hotkeys, whole sceeen goes to black with only mouse seen, and it takes at least 10 minutes for it to open task manager and 10minutes more to kill the Prmiere.

Once I "went through this problem" in some project, I literally cant open that project anymore because it will immediatelly start crashing and glitching (as if I did this resizing), and I need to start the new one.

There were a few updates in the past and nothing changed - updates of premiere, of nvidia, of windows... i just dont know anymore. On my work laptop, 3y old Omen with "lower specs" everything works fine.

SO FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, HELP ME PLEASE! What the h*ll am I supposed to do?!

So I have a decent PC I'd say:

RTX 5060 8GB

Intel-i7-14700F

32GB DDR5 RAM (24GB Allocated towards Pemiere)

One internal SSD and one external SSD so I can transfer to my Mac whenever needed, I usually save on my external SSD so I'm not sure if that's a factor.

Pemiere Pro is basically unusable on my PC. It's extremely laggy, and it's not even just video playback or navigating the timeline. Right clicking always takes about 4 seconds to process, it takes forever to import videos correctly, and practically everything I do is always delayed by 4-10 seconds and it's getting tedious. My Mac runs Premiere with no issue, even though it's half the specs of what my desktop is. I wouldn't mind strictly using my Mac, but it's very convienent to just start a project without issue on my desktop compared to pulling out the laptop and moving files around.

If anyone has any fixes, please leave a reply🙏 I've tried a lot of the common fixes I've seen online but none seem to work.

Edit: I'm using Windows 11 and all my footage is from OBS. I running Adobe Premire 2026 and it is up to date.

Hello! So I've got an edit. It's a live show where the audience got to ask questions. So the audience audio is scratch audio because the person filming it didn't mic them up (it wasn't intended to become a Q&A).

I've used the Enhance Sound features in Premiere and it cleans it up a bit, but it's not great.

So then I finished the rough cut and exported the audio and uploaded it to Adobes Podcast Enhancer audio tool thing. Which wasn't great either (some bits were cleaned up, but most actually came out worse, oddly).

Then I put a fresh .wav export of the rough cut into IZotope RX and that did an ok job, but again, not perfect.

Then I purchased Boris CrumplePop which once again, made an improvement on some audience questions but not all.

Some audio was cleaned up and clearer but the audio volume has either become decreased or increased as a result.

So my question is:

1. How are we all cleaning up audio other than these methods please? Is there a plugin that people would recommend please?

2. How would you normalise such varied audio levels please?

3. The show went so well they're going to do another one. I'm filming this time, but I can now see why the audience wasn't mic'd. The room doesn't allow it. I've got Rode NTG mics on each camera, so the scratch audio should (hopefully) be clearer, but what else would you do to get better audio in the future shows please?

My temptation is to use my Rode Wireless mics to kind of mic the audience without it being a boom above them. But I'm keen for any and all advice please. thank you!

Does anyone know how to export multiple clips individually with the colour grade (so that someone else can edit). In the non beta version you would just send to media encoder and it would do so there. But in the beta version of prem it isn’t compatible with media encoder. Help please

I’m using my apple MacBook Pro with M2 Max chip and 32gb of ram.

The premiere version is Premiere pro beta - 26.5.0

I've got clips from different movies on the same timeline and I'm thinking about color correcting them to make it look somewhat cohesive. However I'm pretty bad at color correction and have only done it for footage that's filmed on the same camera, so it already looks cohesive and needs just a touch up.

Is this a doable thing or should I just not do it?

I'm facing a frustrating issue with Adobe Premiere Pro 2023 and my Nvidia GPU. Everything was working completely fine until now, and I never had any issues before. However, out of nowhere, Premiere has started completely ignoring my graphics card.

The Problem: Inside Premiere Pro 2023, under the Project Settings (and during export), the hardware acceleration option is completely greyed out and locked on "Mercury Playback Engine Software Only". The program is simply not communicating with my Nvidia GPU at all, making editing and rendering incredibly slow.

What I've already tried to fix it:

• Driver Update: I have updated my drivers to the latest Nvidia Studio Drivers, but it didn't change anything.
• Windows Graphics Settings: I went into Windows Settings > System > Display > Graphics, added the Premiere Pro .exe, and forced it to run on "High Performance" (manually selecting my RTX 4060).
• Nvidia Control Panel: I tried to force the dedicated GPU for Premiere under "Manage 3D Settings", but the software is still locked on Software Only.

My setup is an Nvidia RTX 4060 running on Windows.

Has anyone encountered this sudden issue where Premiere Pro 2023 stops recognizing an RTX 4000 series card even with the Studio drivers installed? Any help, workaround, or advice on how to fix this would be greatly appreciated!

Trying to make a visual that shows the difference in the speed of sound waves in low sounds vs high sounds. I need to make a line that reacts to my audio recording (like the image attached). Does anyone know how to go about something like that? I've looked online, but all I can find are tutorials for Audio SPECTRUM waveforms

https://preview.redd.it/amgsncf8c9bh1.png?width=800&format=png&auto=webp&s=9cd377ade2189bc7abb896ea11baddcb7a50984c

Hello! i just want to ask if anyone knows free presets for smooth and professional text animations (the trendy ones) that work on premiere pro 2022? also sound effects if thats possible! i work on reel editing a lot and i just need sumn to make my life easier so if anyone knows please send me a link!

I've set my timeline for automatic rec 709, but the footage is still milky. I apply the right LUTs for Sony and Canon and these don't look right at all. What am I doing wrong?

Mac OS 15.7.3, M1 MacBook Pro. Premiere 26.0.2 (2TB SSD) Not sure what graphics card. 16GB Ram.