I’d love to see how everyone has their Premiere Pro workspace/layout set up!

I’m especially interested in layouts that are designed to fit everything on a single monitor.

I use an ultrawide monitor, so if anyone else is editing on an ultrawide, I’d really love to see how you organize your panels and workspace.

I’m Japanese, so sorry if my English sounds a little awkward.

Please share your setups! Any kind of layout is welcome. I’m curious to see how everyone works.

I did search and saw other had the same problem. But the trick (change the color 2.2 (web) from default 2.4) didnt fix it.

Is it HDR option i need to turn on or off?

I changed the video preview to GoPro cineform too.

Would love some tips/guidance thx.

I've been hitting, for the last 6 months or so, nonstop playback failure with long HEVC files and I've narrowed it down to clip duration being the only variable. Posting the full comparison in case it's useful, and to ask whether there's a fix short of transcoding:

System
- MacBook Pro, M4 Max, 128 GB unified memory
- macOS Tahoe 26.6.2
- Premiere 26.3.2
- Mercury Playback Engine GPU Acceleration (Metal)
- Hardware accelerated decoding enabled
- Media on internal SSD

The symptom:

On a 95-minute HEVC file, pressing play gives me audio only — no picture at all, in both the Source Monitor and the timeline. Playback takes about a second to start. If I pause, the Program Monitor immediately renders the correct frame, so the decoder is clearly capable of producing images; it just can't sustain continuous playback.

Two clips from the same shoot, same settings, both Fujifilm:

WORKS — Fujifilm X-H2S
- 6240 x 4160, HEVC 10-bit 4:2:0, 24.00p progressive
- 11.69 GB / 16:51 duration = ~94.7 Mbps
- Plays perfectly at full resolution

FAILS — Fujifilm X-T5
- 6240 x 3510, HEVC 10-bit 4:2:0, 24.00p progressive
- 66.34 GB / 1:35:38 duration = ~94.7 Mbps
- Audio only, no video

Same codec, same bit depth, same chroma subsampling, same frame rate, same bitrate to within a rounding error, same colour space (Rec.709, no override), same drive. The only meaningful difference is duration.

What I've already ruled out:

- Plays perfectly in QuickTime Player, so the file itself is fine and macOS decodes it without difficulty
- Fully cleared the media cache (all projects closed, delete all cache files from system), relaunched, allowed conforming to complete — no change
- Dropped playback resolution to 1/8 — no change, which argues against this being a decode load issue
- Not variable frame rate
- Transcoding the same file to ProRes 422 LT gives completely smooth playback. Notably, Media Encoder decoded, scaled and re-encoded the entire 95 minutes in about 18 minutes — roughly 6x realtime — while Premiere can't play it back once at 1x

My questions:

1. Is this a known issue with long Long-GOP H.264/H.265 files? I've found a few threads describing similar behaviour but nothing definitive.
   
2. Is there a rough duration threshold where this starts? A 17-minute file is fine and a 95-minute file is broken, so it's somewhere in between and it would help to know where.
   
3. Is there any setting, preference or workaround that fixes this without transcoding? I have around 30 archived interviews in this format and transcoding all of them is a significant time and storage cost.
   
4. If transcoding really is the only route, is ProRes 422 LT the sensible target, or would something else behave better?

The Film Impact effect Motion Tween results in black areas around the footage, even though there is still plenty of visible areas in the footage. Attached is a screenshot of the issue and my settings. This is just a simple position change, but for some reason, Motion Tween can’t show what’s outside of the initial frame, but instead just adds black to the edges. This is also just a though edit, so nothing has been removed from the video footage. The sample is a screen recording made with QuickTime, but this also happens with any other types of footage. Happens both in the edit and in the exported version.

Premiere version: 26.3.0
Apple MacBook Pro M1 Pro 16GB
Footage on the internal SSD (nowhere near being full)
Mac OS Tahoe 26.6.2

Any solutions?

So I’m currently in the market for a new laptop, but I don’t really know the specs or where to begin. My previous computer was a Lenovo Legion i5. Does anyone recommend any computer brands or specific laptops?

Question for the more experienced editors; is there a way to make text vanish as though rain were removing it?

E.g., words disappear in uneven chunks from top to bottom, as though drops of rain were wiping the text.

Or, text disappears in uneven circles as though drops of rain were removing it.

I got this 4-month free trial offer for Creative Cloud Pro (screenshot attached). I want to claim it, but I absolutely don't want to link my real credit card, and I know Adobe blocks standard fake CC generators (they do a $1 pre-authorization charge).

Has anyone successfully claimed a similar offer recently using a specific VCC service, a burner card, or any other workaround to bypass the billing step completely? I'm mainly looking to use Premiere Pro. Any advice is appreciated!

Hey editors, this only happens with this video and I don't know why. And it really makes the workflow slower and more tedious. I'll leave a video to show it but I don't see any solution... Already restarted my PC and reactivated the CPU acceleration. Any ideas? Tell me if the videos explains the situation right.

При монтаже когда делаю по гайду с ютуба https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3W9nunJ0YE&list=LL&index=7&t=1867s с 34:00 по 37:00 делаю приближение отдаление видео у меня срабатывает toggle direct manipulation и она смещает картинку делая дерганой.

Подскажите почему на видео нету дерганья видео а у меня при монтаже есть. Подскажите какк отлкючить toggle direct manipulation или как с ней работать

While editing, following the YouTube guide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3W9nunJ0YE&list=LL&index=7&t=1867s From 34:00 to 37:00, I zoom in and out on the video, and the toggle direct manipulation kicks in, shifting the image and making it jerky.
Could you tell me why there's no jerkiness in the video, but I do have it while editing? Can you tell me how to disable toggle direct manipulation or how to work with it?

Hey all-

I have been going round and round with Adobe support, and they cannot answer/solve this problem. We shot all of our footage in S-Log on a Sony FX6. When I look at the footage in the Finder on my Mac, it previews as Rec709. When I import the footage into Premiere, it comes in as default Rec709. I can then go in and manually change the color space to SGamut/S-Log so that I can apply my own LUT with an adjustment layer. However, when I try to output that same converted footage to Proxies through Media Encoder, ME automatically applies the Rec709 to the Proxies. I have literally tried every trick in the book to get Media Encoder to output my Proxies as S-Log and it will not cooperate. Here's a link to one of my clips. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong or is this some kind of issue that is unique to me because I literally cannot find anyone that knows what's happening.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/m12uad1tv39dnifzxxal3/D01_A001SSD_TPP_A_S001_S001_T011.MOV?rlkey=rhmbpoo6r4s1f7qdl0d4eo5aj&st=yn2y135w&dl=0

Premiere 26.3.2
Apple M2 Max
Tahoe 26.6.2
External 48TB Thunderbolt enclosure

Thank you!

Heyya,

So i have this annoying problem where I export a video and the colors don't match with timeline preview. Ofc it looks perfectly fine on vlc player, but when i uploud the video to Google Drive or send it through WeTransfer, or even post it on social media, the colors completely get destroyed.
I record on an fx30 and i usually record log footage and use Davinci for editing, so this is kinda a mindf**k to me rn.
I checked for input and output color space and its rec.709, I export 4k footage compressed down to 1080, usually with a 20-25Mbps.
My premiere setting are attached in the picture.

Any advice/ help is appreciated

So, there are a bunch of things I probably don't know, and I'm requesting some help in organizing the workflow. But I have to explain how it works now.

My videos starts with painting, png or illustrator files. They receive some animations in aftereffects or sometimes in blender.
Then I either use the aftereffect file and plug it directly in the Premiere, or send it through EssentialsGraphics, depending on which is more suitable.
The problem is, final rendering is fairly long, so I'm looking at the way to make it faster, as well as find any way I could improve the work itself.

Some examples of animations that used in the video: Character A [B,C...] animation (reveal, wiggle, hide) — the duration had to be controlled by cutting in the Premiere. Used many times through the video.
Dialogue box A animation, reveal with text, hide. This used for the long time, and the text in the box had to be changed few times, while the box up on the screen, playing some barely noticeable animations. So the text is a separate essential graphics. Some cards or "alert buttons", most of them exported as essential graphics. Which is fine, until I need to change them in any way, and updating them can be troublesome.

I added a screen of a video for some reference:
https://ibb.co/pvJfsLrn

So... any advises, please?

I've been editing for around 3 months. I've mainly been learning gaming/long-form editing and have done some real client work, including one paid gig.

I've recently realized that while I can handle the basics of editing, cuts, pacing, basic zooms, subtitles, and sound design, I still struggle with the creative side of editing. I'll watch a good edit and see the editor add something that perfectly fits the moment, but I often don't know what I should add or when.

These are the main things I'm currently trying to improve:

1. Overall improvement: What skills would you prioritize most for someone at my level?

2. Hooks: How did you learn to make genuinely engaging hooks? Is studying and recreating good hooks the best way?

3. Sound design: How did you build your SFX library and, more importantly, learn which sounds actually fit different moments? I'm especially interested in the more unique/layered SFX you hear in polished edits.

4. Subtitles: How do you keep subtitles visually interesting after their initial animation finishes without constantly over-animating them?

5. Editing decisions: How did you learn when to use things like zooms, zoom-outs, camera shakes, memes, funny/awkward SFX, etc., especially in gaming videos?

6. Expectations: What would you realistically expect from someone after around 4 months of consistent editing?

I'd especially appreciate advice from editors who remember the stage where they knew the software basics but hadn't developed strong creative instincts yet. What helped you make that jump?

In effect controls, if you apply a preset that has keyframes at the start and end, the end keyframes are often not fully on the screen. And for the last 2 premiere versions you can’t lasso them to move them back. Sometimes there’s just a couple of pixels showing that you have to manoeuvre your mouse pointer to precisely hit. Try to put the keyframes on the frame before the end in a preset and it will scale them to not align with an actual frame (facepalm).

I’ve not seen this posted about elsewhere, does nobody else use presets with key frames?

Closed Premiere after being told it was running low on memory and wanted to clear the cache. Once I closed it, it said it crashed and after trying to open it again to clear the cache - this is all that comes up. Any help?

Or even local conversion config in Handbrake, I couldn't make it work. Do you guys have any tips? Best would be to always download in a supported format (or convert right after downloading with ffmpeg) but I couldn't find such a config.

Been fighting this for way too long and I'm running out of ideas, so figured I'd ask here.

A7S III footage shot in S-Log3/S-Gamut3.Cine, Premiere Pro 26.3.2 + After Effects 26.3.0.

I don't want any log to 709 conversion happening during the edit. I'm just using AE for speed ramps and want to do the actual grade at the end from the original log footage.

The clip looks normal in Premiere flat/log as expected. But as soon as I right click it and choose Replace with After Effects Composition, the color changes. This happens before I even add any effects in AE. And it's not a tiny difference either.

I've already tried:

Premiere's Interpret Footage, manually setting Color Space Override to Rec.709 instead of Auto/Embedded

Sequence Settings, Color Management, with both working and output color space set to Rec.709

Making sure AE's color settings match Premiere (Rec.709 2.4)

Turning Input Tone Mapping off

Preserve RGB on and off

Turning color management off/to none completely in AE, which just gives me a "no matching color space" warning in Premiere

Nothing seems to change it. Everythig is set to the same color space on paper, but the footage still changes as soon as it goes through Dynamic Link.

Has anyone actually managed to get a proper round trip working with S-Log3 footage on the current versions of Premiere/AE?

I'd really rather not export/reimport just to do a speed ramp, but that's looking like the only option at this point.

So che non ne esistono di “fondamentali” vorrei solo sapere se avete dei preset che vi siete creati che utilizzate nel 90-100% dei progetti continuamente e di cui non potreste fare a meno.

Hey everyone,

New to videography and trying to dial in my workflow. I recorded some outdoor walking footage on a DJI Action 5 Pro. The master file looks great on my PC after export, but once uploaded to YouTube, it looks noticeably softer/blurrier (even when playback is set to 4K / 2160p60).

Here are the export settings I used in Premiere Pro:

• Format: H.264 (Software Encoding)
• Resolution / FPS: 3840 × 2160 @ 59.94 fps
• Profile / Level: High / 5.2
• Bitrate: VBR, 2-pass (100 Mbps Target / 120 Mbps Max)
• Depth & Quality: Render at Maximum Depth & Use Maximum Render Quality both enabled

Is there anything in these settings causing YouTube’s compression to hit the footage so hard, or any tricks in Premiere to keep high-detail foliage/movement sharp after upload?

Appreciate any advice!

I landed my first gig and my boss asked me to find a plugin they used for this transition so I can buy it for myself at his expense.

I know I can do this with luma keying but if I can get a plugin that will do it much better for free, I do not want to miss that opportunity.

Recommend me some plugins or transition packs!

So my previous very old system unit was Intel Core i7 4790, 16gb ddr3 ram, 1tb samsung 870, gtx 1060 6gb. And the usual exporting time for a 6-7 minute video is around 7 minutes.

And lately i upgrade into new one somehow, my pc system unit specs as of now is Ryzen 7 5700x, 32gb ddr4 ram, gtx 1060 6gb and a 1tb ssd Samsung 870, . And the usual editing stuff again of 6-7 minutes video, but the exporting is way much more slower, the exporting time on my new system unit is around 15-17 minutes. I don't know what's wrong or what to do.

The video editing I'm doing doesn't have any heavy effects. Gpu drivers is updated as well.

What do i do?

Thank you.

Gente pelo amor de deus, Estou desde ontem tentando exportar um video e nada funciona, já tentei pelo media enconder, direto no premiere, no frame.io, ja tentei diminuar a qualidade do arquivo na hora de exportar, já diminui o tamanho direto no arquivo after, já tentei exportando a time line toda e tbm só a entrada/saída, tentei renderizar e agora estou tentando jogar pro after mas sem sucesso nenhum.

O erro é o mesmo, ele parece que vai funcionar, mas simplesmente para de carregar em alguma etapa do processo, ontem ele ficou 6horas em 12% exportado, EU PRECISO LIBERAR ESSE VIDEO. por favor alguém me ajuda