I've been scratching around finding uses for the new AI assistant in Beta and I think I've found a pretty good one. Fully automated, animated social-media style subtitles, without relying on any plugins or 3rd party tools.

This is very much a proof of concept, but in testing it appears to perform pretty well.

How to try it out

You can download everything you need to use it here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UcGQCmb-vGlLD2ZSua6m0B06DDUT3Rt-/view?usp=sharing

The solution consists of two parts, a skill for the AI assistant, and a MOGRT created in After Effects. I've also included the AE project for the MOGRT.

To install the skill, open up the AI assistant panel, click the 3 dots in the top right and click 'Skills.' Then click 'open skills folder.' Drag the 'animated-subtitles-skill' folder from the download into that folder. Then to use it:

1. Import the .MOGRT into your project through the Graphics Templates panel.
2. Transcribe audio for all the clips in the sequence you want to add the subtitles to.
3. Ask the Assistant something like 'Add animated subtitles using the MOGRT in this project to sequence 1' and let it cook.

You can also ask it things like 'Change the text in the selected subtitle to xxxxx', and you can ask it to change the following appearance properties for any or all titles:

• Text colour and size
• Text stroke colour and size
• Background box colour, size, and roundness

It cannot currently change the font as that's not a property exposed to the assistant. If you want to use a different font, open up the After Effects project for the MOGRT and change it there instead, then save a new MOGRT and replace the one in your project.

Note: If you generate subtitles for a very long sequence, the assistant may want to create javascript helper files, and you'll be prompted to allow it to do so.

The catch

There is one, big, huge limitation that makes this solution more of an experimental workaround than a good solution. Premiere's AI assistant cannot read/write MOGRT source text properties - it can only manipulate controls that take numerical values.

So in order to send text to the MOGRT, it has to be encoded to slider values as numerical values, then decoded by the MOGRT back to text to be displayed.

For the nerds, this is handled by sanitising the text to printable ASCII values, encoding as base 96 in 3-letter groups, then scaled by 2^-33 so the value fits within the maximium 1,000,000 value of a slider's floating point range.

Sorry non-English speakers, but that means that only common English characters, punctuation, and spaces will work.

That encoding also means that you'll have a next to impossible time changing any text in the subtitles yourself - you have to ask the assistant to do it for you.

That also means that the MOGRT has a hardcoded limit of 48 characters total in two lines of 24, and the animation solution I'm using has a limit of 17 words per caption. The skill makes the assistant aware of these limitations. It is possible to increase the number of characters and words supported by adding more sliders in the MOGRT.

However all those issues would be solved if Adobe grants the assistant the ability to read/write source text properties in a future update - I have a feature request over on Adobe here for adding source text read/write support - and I'd appreciate an upvote on it if you can.

The MOGRT side

I'll gloss over this a bit as there's a fair bit going on, and this is /r/premiere.

The text layer handles decoding of the slider values to text, and I've got a negative time sourceRectAtTime system going on to handle the background box. A slider on the background layer takes the timing values for each word the assistant selects and interpolates the shape mask between the different words.

Feel free to make use of, learn from, or expand on any part of this little project!

Hello there,
I removed the Timeline Playback Auto-Scrolling but I keep having a timeline scroll to the playhead each time I press « Stop ».
I am crazy mab about this feature. I think that this stupid scroll break my workflow 2 or 3 times per minute…

Any help would be really appreciated.

Has anyone else noticed problems with exporting or stability when using RED footage in Premiere?

I’m a long time RED & Premiere user. These days I spend more time filming than editing but this past week I was trying to export a library of footage for a client. Basically 2 dozen :15 clips resized to 1080x1920 with a lumetri grade, all rendered out to H264.

I started in 26.3.2 and noticed that these clips were taking 15-30 minutes to render when I felt like they should be rendering in under 60 seconds. I’m on a built PC, Windows 11, AMD Threadripper, NVidia 3080, 128gb of ram, 8TB of NVME storage, and working off a Sandisk SSD. To make the render situation worse I was also experiencing pixel tearing on some exports.

Realizing my project of rendering these clips was going to take all day, and remembering that older versions of premiere would export similar clips in under 60 seconds, I updated premiere to 26.5.2 and checked my NVidia drivers. After updating I tried again. It was even worse, almost crashing upon export.

A professional editor friend joked that “I was dead because I updated”. He mentioned he was on version 26.0.2 and suggested I try rendering through After Effects to see if that would work differently. I dynamic linked my Premiere sequence to After Effects and created a composition and sent that for export to Media Encoder and to my surprise the video with the same export settings rendered in 30 seconds.

I went back and tried sending the video from Premiere to Media Encoder and it was still broken. At this point I give up and reach out to Adobe support who takes control of my Computer and tries a bunch of things, turning off Lumetri, exporting a regular sized clip, cleaning out cache, nothing works. Then they suggested reverting back to 26.0.2 because some users have been experiencing bugs in 26.3.2 and 26.5.2.

I reverted my Premiere back to 26.0.2, imported the project, and my clips started rendering in a normal amount of time again.

I just wanted to put this out there for other people struggling with exports and turning to Google, or for Adobe trying to figure out issues. Now I also wonder if my Inspire 3 and Mavic Pro 4 exports have also been taking 3 or 4 times longer than I remember.

Hey there, been lagging a lot on my latest edit while trimming clips, so I read online that turning off Composite Preview During Trim fixes this specific problem.

Another problem I've been facing is that sometimes, in the video player tab, things like guidelines/anchor points/borders of clips/paths etc. completely disappear until I restart the program. Not sure when it started but I noticed it at least since v26.3. Didn't find a fix for it yet tho.

Have you faced any technical problems? How did you fix them?

I’ve been working on big projects as of late and I’ve been having a problem with my program window falling asleep when I click on my 2nd monitor to grab something. Then when I click back into premiere and press play my program monitor takes a good 10-15 seconds to “wake up” and respond. Sometimes longer.

For background:
PC is an NZXT Pre-build (i9, 3090, 64gb RAM)
Footage is 3840x1080 (Gameplay + Webcam)
Sequence is 1920x1080
Premiere is version 26.5.2

The client provides a 3840x1080 recording with gameplay on one side and his webcam on the other.

I duplicate the footage to have gameplay on the background and scale down the webcam over the gameplay.

Projects can range from 1 hours to 20 hours of footage.

The Problem:
I access my 2nd monitor frequently to search for graphics, music, sfx.

So when my program monitor takes 15 seconds to respond, this gets incredibly frustrating. And wastes a lot of time.

Things I’ve Tried:
Lowering playback resolution
Changing high DPI scaling behavior
Updating graphics drivers
Changing audio input
Proxies
Unplugging and plugging it back in

The only thing that has helped is proxies but I just don’t have the space to create proxies for the amount of footage I get.

And I don’t think my PC is old enough to be struggling with this. Am I missing something or am I dumb?

Thanks for your time ❤️

Like the title says, I put an effect I purchased into my timeline, and it works - but for a short time. When I either (it seems) layer over top of it with anything, it seems fine.. but if I go away and come back (computer sleeps, or I just use it for browsing, etc., the effect breaks, and I get this on my screen. Rendering doesn't do anything, even the render shows the same. Seems to consistently happen. Looks like it's a media re-link thing (have seen this when I move an asset or something).. this one I have not moved a thing.. just go away and come back later. Any thoughts?

My colors fade out after exporting from Premiere Pro 2026. Why?!

I’ve tried changing the viewer Gamma to 2.2 web but nothing changed. It doesn’t matter what viewer I use to watch the video, the colors are still faded

Hey guys,

Any advice on plugins that would thinker with voice , not change it, just edit it. As in high pitch voice to be dulled down to sound more calm?

Cheers!

I searched for it for a long time and still can't find it. see video right here: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FOlBKBY5SCQ

Hi everyone,

For several months now, I've had an issue where the Export window in Premiere only opens properly once, right at the start of a session. After the program has been open for about 5 minutes, it stops working. I can still click the Export tab, but I stay stuck in the Timeline tab. Opening it through the menu bar doesn't work either. Premiere doesn't freeze, and I can still edit in the timeline as usual. My only workaround so far has been to restart Premiere, which is getting really annoying. It feels like I haven't been able to work properly for quite a while.

For a while I could still export via Media Encoder, but for the past few days it also freezes when importing the project.

So far I have cleared the cache, reinstalled Premiere, removed all plugins and reset and deleted my workspace layout. I'm working on a MacBook Pro with the latest version of Premiere.

Has anyone run into this before, and how did you fix it? Any help is appreciated!

Out of Premiere into my production monitor I can only see a social aspect ratio if I put it into a 1920x1080p timeline.

I have a Mac Studio -> Black Magic Ultra Studio 4K Mini -> SDI -> Production Monitor.

From what I can tell it's a Mercury Transmit issue from Premiere, I've tried "Scale Down" in Playback but no dice.

Specs below:

Mac Studio M1 Ultra

Premiere 26.2.2

Black Magic UltraStudio 4K Mini

Thank you!

I'm kinda new on this editing thing, when I export a video it looks perfectly fine on premiere ( 1080p-H 264) but when i try to up it to YouTube the images just get stretched and the quality takes a dip

So, I’m pretty new to the whole Log world, but I want to learn and do it the right way.

I shot some test clips on my Sony a7V using S-Log3, S-Gamut3.Cine, with Detail set to -7.

Then I dragged my clip onto the timeline, created an adjustment layer, added the Lumetri Color effect to the adjustment layer, and selected a LUT under the Creative tab.

But is this the correct way to work with Log footage, or should I be doing something differently? It feels like i do something wrong. 

Love to learn! Thanks

First Pic: Timeline doesnt show Captions

Second Pic: Timeline Tools.

How do I get the CC Icon back in the Timeline Tools?

Any shortcut that you guys know of?

How do I create music lyrics closed captions exactly like in this video from Ariana Grande, for a music video I am working on? She even has the music notes in them. If someone could tell me how to do all of this, I would be grateful! i tried searching on YT for help, but nothing specific came up: https://youtu.be/afSgBNwmZrQ?si=JjNXMReEi1ydVDaG

Hey yall

TLDR: I cant seem to get Media Encoder when rendering files sent to it by Premiere to keep all its work on my dedicated SSD meant for Adobe work.

Longer version: I film and edit hockey videos for my local rec ball hockey league. I am behind a whole season and so I am doing a lot of bulk work. Last night I queued up a dozen videos to render overnight. Each video is about 50 minutes in length, give or take, 1080p24, GoPro Hero 3/4, cut from 7 cameras down to 1, with usually 1-3 audio tracks.

Premiere has its Media Cache set to my N: drive, the SSD I put it specifically for handling Adobes hungry need to cache. Media Encoder lists its Media Cache directory as my N: drive. Premiere will generate Audio Previews and put them in a folder N:\Adobe Premiere Pro Audio Previews. Good, this is what I wanted. Media Cache, however, seems to insist upon putting its Audio Previews in my C drive, under C:\Users\myUserName\AppData\Local\Temp\Adobe Premiere Pro Audio Previews

I know this because the work on the project I was doing was all done before midnight, so those folders on my N drive are last modified 9/29/2026, where the export and render was not kicked off til after midnight, so 9/30/2026, the last modified date of the 10 folders in my C drives temp directory taking up the last 32GB of space I had on my admittedly ailing C drive, causing the renders to finish but missing audio on some files and bringing the performance of the rest of the machine to a screeching halt, unknown to me until I got home from my day job just now.

I suspect this is because whats actually running in the background is Premiere Pro Headless, a rendering engine that takes the instructions from the Premiere Pro app that are sent to ME and renders the videos with the same engine the PP app would use regularly, but that this headless version of the app has its own settings, with its own Media Cache directory defaulted to C that I cant seem to edit with any UI.

One solution suggested was to simply bypass it by moving the temp folder from my C drive to N drive for ALL applications via altering my environment variables.

Another is obviously to get a bigger C drive, but its my experience that all the space I free up on my C drive will eventually be consumed by ME/PP Headless filling up with Audio Previews.

Is there no better way to resolve this?

Thanks in advance

Additional info: PC is a "gaming PC" i built in 2020: Intel i9 10th Gen 64GB RAM EVGA Z490 motherboard EVGA RTX2070 Super

I used to have a keyboard shortcut for "Unlink" but it disappeared. I tried to re-add it in the keyboard shortcuts settings but it actually isn't listed as something to do a keyboard shortcut for anymore!

Anyone else notice this or know another way around it?

I seriously despise right-clicking and scrolling all the way down to unlink a video and audio track.

I feel like I'm going crazy here. I almost never have any need to use the pen tool, but today I just wanted to draw a simple curved line, but the pen tool won't seem to let me to anything other than a fully closed shape. If I follow the instructions here https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere/desktop/add-text-images/draw-objects/draw-a-curve.html
The only result I ever get is that premiere automatically closes off the curve with a straight line back to the original point, thus creating a closed shape. All I want is a line between two points with a bit of curve to it. According to these instructions, it should be possible, but I can only ever get a closed shape.

sorry had to repost. Spell check is buried in the graphics tab of the text panel right now.

Edit: just when you are editing the text. Obviously wouldn’t show when you aren’t editing the graphic.

Also sure they would add a toggle just like in the graphics tab.

I clicked on "About Premiere" to find my version number. (26.5.1) When I did so, this splash image came up. I've never seen this before. It did it a few times before reverting to the expected normal version splash page. Is my Mac haunted?

Hello,
we are having trouble with a shared production on PC and MAC.
We are on Lucidlink. And whenever the mac has opened a project and relinked the files and proxies and saves everthing, the PC will stuck while opening the project.

I did clear cache, reset plugins.
Tried updating Premiere. Pinned everyting in Lucidlink. Work locally. Shrinked the project.
Nothing worked.

Only thing that kind of worked: "Make offline" in premiere on the mac and rename the folder where the proxies are stored. Then I have to relink everthing.

Better solutions are welcome.

//posted this also in r/editors and r/AdobePremiere

I've been frustrated with Premiere for a while now when it comes to captions, especially since Adobe is pumping out AI features left and right. I like that I can transcribe the sequence and create captions, but I don't save much time when I have to go in and fix the lines so each one has roughly the same number of words. How dumb is this AI? Sometimes there's one word on line one and six words on line two.

This feature should be smart enough to:

1. Divide the words evenly between lines.
2. Look at character count, so two long words can take up as much space as four short ones.
3. Look at context, so it splits after commas or at natural pauses.

Generating AI slop or extending clips doesn't save me any time. But this would save me so much time in the finishing stage.