- Adobe Premiere Pro User Guide
- Beta releases
- Getting started
- Hardware and operating system requirements
- Creating projects
- Workspaces and workflows
- Frame.io
- Import media
- Importing
- Importing from Avid or Final Cut
- File formats
- Working with timecode
- Editing
- Edit video
- Sequences
- Create and change sequences
- Set In and Out points in the Source Monitor
- Add clips to sequences
- Rearrange and move clips
- Find, select, and group clips in a sequence
- Remove clips from a sequence
- Change sequence settings
- Edit from sequences loaded into the Source Monitor
- Simplify sequences
- Rendering and previewing sequences
- Working with markers
- Add markers to clips
- Create markers in Effect Controls panel
- Set default marker colors
- Find, move, and delete markers
- Show or hide markers by color
- View marker comments
- Copy and paste sequence markers
- Sharing markers with After Effects
- Source patching and track targeting
- Scene edit detection
- Cut and trim clips
- Video
- Audio
- Overview of audio in Premiere Pro
- Edit audio clips in the Source Monitor
- Audio Track Mixer
- Adjusting volume levels
- Edit, repair, and improve audio using Essential Sound panel
- Enhance Speech
- Enhance Speech FAQs
- Audio Category Tagging
- Automatically duck audio
- Remix audio
- Monitor clip volume and pan using Audio Clip Mixer
- Audio balancing and panning
- Advanced Audio - Submixes, downmixing, and routing
- Audio effects and transitions
- Working with audio transitions
- Apply effects to audio
- Measure audio using the Loudness Radar effect
- Recording audio mixes
- Editing audio in the timeline
- Audio channel mapping in Premiere Pro
- Use Adobe Stock audio in Premiere Pro
- Overview of audio in Premiere Pro
- Text-Based Editing
- Advanced editing
- Best Practices
- Video Effects and Transitions
- Overview of video effects and transitions
- Effects
- Transitions
- Titles, Graphics, and Captions
- Properties panel
- Essential Graphics panel (24.x and earlier)
- Overview of the Essential Graphics panel
- Create a title
- Linked and Track Styles
- Working with style browser
- Create a shape
- Draw with the Pen tool
- Align and distribute objects
- Change the appearance of text and shapes
- Apply gradients
- Add Responsive Design features to your graphics
- Speech to Text
- Download language packs for transcription
- Working with captions
- Check spelling and Find and Replace
- Export text
- Speech to Text FAQs
- Motion Graphics panel (24.x and earlier)
- Best Practices: Faster graphics workflows
- Retiring the Legacy Titler FAQs
- Upgrade Legacy titles to Source Graphics
- Fonts and emojis
- Animation and Keyframing
- Compositing
- Color Correction and Grading
- Overview: Color workflows in Premiere Pro
- Color Settings
- Auto Color
- Get creative with color using Lumetri looks
- Adjust color using RGB and Hue Saturation Curves
- Correct and match colors between shots
- Using HSL Secondary controls in the Lumetri Color panel
- Create vignettes
- Looks and LUTs
- Lumetri scopes
- Display Color Management
- Timeline tone mapping
- HDR for broadcasters
- Enable DirectX HDR support
- Exporting media
- Collaborative editing
- Collaboration in Premiere Pro
- Get started with collaborative video editing
- Create Team Projects
- Add and manage media in Team Projects
- Invite and manage collaborators
- Share and manage changes with collaborators
- View auto saves and versions of Team Projects
- Manage Team Projects
- Linked Team Projects
- Frequently asked questions
- Long form and Episodic workflows
- Working with other Adobe applications
- Organizing and Managing Assets
- Improving Performance and Troubleshooting
- Set preferences
- Reset and restore preferences
- Recovery Mode
- Working with Proxies
- Check if your system is compatible with Premiere Pro
- Premiere Pro for Apple silicon
- Eliminate flicker
- Interlacing and field order
- Smart rendering
- Control surface support
- Best Practices: Working with native formats
- Knowledge Base
- Known issues
- Fixed issues
- Fix Premiere Pro crash issues
- Unable to migrate settings after updating Premiere Pro
- Green and pink video in Premiere Pro or Premiere Rush
- How do I manage the Media Cache in Premiere Pro?
- Fix errors when rendering or exporting
- Troubleshoot issues related to playback and performance in Premiere Pro
- Set preferences
- Extensions and plugins
- Video and audio streaming
- Monitoring Assets and Offline Media
Discover the smart rendering capabilities Premiere Pro offers and create a better quality output.
Supported formats for smart rendering
When exporting, smart rendering can be used for certain formats to create better quality output by avoiding recompression when possible. Smart rendering works only if the source codec, size, frame rate, and bit rate match the export settings. Supported formats for smart rendering are:
Codecs in an MXF wrapper that support smart rendering
- AVC-Intra in MXF (Format > MXF OP1a & Format > AS-11)
- DNxHD & DNxHR in MXF (Format > DNxHR / DNxHD MXF OP1a)
- DNxHD MXF OP-Atom to DNxHD MXF OP1a
- JPEG 2000 (only works when using the 12-bit PQ space)
- MXF OP-Atom AVC Intra to MXF OP1a AVC-Intra
- MXF OP1a to DNxHD MXF OP1a
- XDCAM HD (Format > MXF OP1a & Format > AS-10)
- XDCAM EX (Format > MXF OP1a)
- XAVC-Intra in MXF (Format > MXF OP1a)
To activate smart rendering for codecs in an MXF wrapper, check the “Enable smart rendering codec” option found under the Video settings tab of the preset.
Codecs in a QuickTime wrapper that support smart rendering
- Animation
- DNxHD
- GoPro CineForm
- NONE: Uncompressed RBG 8-bit
- ProRes 422
- ProRes 422 (HQ)
- ProRes 422 (LT)
- ProRes 422 (Proxy)
- ProRes 4444
Smart rendering for QuickTime codecs is automatically enabled any time the source settings match the export settings.
QuickTime Match Source (Rewrap) Support
QuickTime Match Source (Rewrap) is only supported for several compatible video streams. These include most combinations of the following QuickTime codecs:
- Animation
- Apple ProRes (422 & 4444 flavors)
- DV (25, 50 & DVCPROHD)
- GoPro CineForm
- None.
Note that if your source clips are not one of these codecs, then QuickTime Match Source (Rewrap) is not supported and displays a warning.
Special cases that are supported for smart rendering
- DV/DVCPRO/DVCPRO HD
- MXF OP1a AVC-Intra to QuickTime AVC-Intra
- QuickTime XDCAM to MXF OP1a XDCAM
- QuickTime XDCAM HD to MXF OP1a XDCAM HD
- QuickTime AVC-Intra to MXF OP1a AVC-Intra
- DV, DVCPRO, and DVCPRO HD formats smart render whether they are in a QuickTime wrapper, MXF wrapper, or go between two different wrappers.
- To smart render to/from QT AVC-Intra, install the QT AVC-Intra codec.
- The format in which you are smart rendering determines the option to smart render in these special cases. For example, if you are smart rendering to an MXF OP1a format, you must enable the smart rendering check box. An exception is smart rendering DV/DVCPRO/DVCPROHD is always enabled regardless of the wrapper you are exporting to.