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- Adobe Premiere Rush User Guide
- Introduction
- Import footage
- Edit video
- Edit your video in the timeline
- Add and refine audio
- Change video color, size, and position
- Create titles
- Add transitions, pan and zoom effects and automatically reframe your clips
- Transform clip properties
- Change aspect ratio of your video
- Create a picture-in-picture effect
- Speed up or slow down video
- Use fonts from Adobe Fonts
- Duplicating projects and sequences
- Export video
- Premiere Rush on iOS and Android
- Adobe Premiere Rush on mobile | Common questions
- Create and edit videos using Adobe Premiere Rush on iOS
- Export video to social media channels
- Create and edit videos using Adobe Premiere Rush on Android
- Manage Adobe Premiere Rush subscriptions on iOS
- Manage Adobe Premiere Rush subscriptions on Android
- Manage Adobe Premiere Rush subscriptions on Samsung Galaxy Store
Learn how you can bring your video clips, photos, and audio files into Adobe Premiere Rush for editing. Also learn about the file formats that Premiere Rush supports.
You can bring your video clips, photos, graphics, and audio files from your computer or an external drive right into Premiere Rush and start editing your video project.
Media Browser
Media Browser is the panel in which you can browse, preview, and import various media types in Premiere Rush.
How to open Media Browser
When you create a new project, Media Browser opens automatically. You just need to select the media you would like to add to your project and click Create.
If you want to import media into an existing project, click the icon in the left toolbar to open Media Browser.
How to browse media in Media Browser
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Title |
Description |
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A |
Local |
Displays media saved on your local computer. |
B |
Cloud |
Displays media stored in the cloud such as in Creative Cloud or iCloud |
C |
Favorites |
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D |
Sort |
Sort media on name or date of creation |
E |
Filter |
Filter media by all media types, videos only, audio only, or images only |
F |
Sync with Creative Cloud |
Saves your video project to Creative Cloud |
G |
Copy Media |
Saves a copy of the selected media on your device |
Create a project and add media files
When you launch Premiere Rush and start a new project, select and import your media. You can import media from your computer, a network location, or the cloud (such as Creative Cloud or iCloud). If you are connected to an office network, you can also import media from a network location.
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On the Home screen, click Create a New Project.
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In Media Browser, browse and select the assets you want to import in the order in which you want them to appear in the timeline.
Premiere Rush marks all the clips in the order you select them and arranges them at the bottom of the screen in a storyboard.
If you are not satisfied with the order of the clips, you can deselect them by clicking them. Then select the assets again in the order in which you want them to appear.
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(Optional) When adding an audio or video clip, you can choose to add only a part of the clip. For more information, see Add part of a clip.
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(Optional) Select the following options:
- Sync with Creative Cloud: To save your video project to the cloud, select Sync with Creative Cloud. You can then access the project from all your mobile and desktop devices. All of your edits are synced to the cloud, so you always have the latest version of your project on any device.
- Copy Media: To save a copy of the selected media on your device, select Copy Media. This option is useful if you are importing media from a detachable device. Premiere Rush saves the media in the folder that you specify in the Preferences dialog box. By default, the media is stored in the Premiere Rush/Imported Media folder. For information about how to change this default location, see Set audio, input, output, and rendering preferences.
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Click Create.
After you click Create, Premiere Rush automatically adds all of your selected media to a sequence (by default, named Sequence 01), and the project is available for you to start editing in the Edit workspace.
Add media files to an existing project
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To add media to your project while editing, click the icon in the left toolbar and select Your Media.
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Browse to find the media you want to add to your project.
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Do one of the following:
- Add the entire clip: Select the clip and click Add.
- Add part of an audio or video clip: Select the clip and click the Large Preview icon. Play the media and select a range. Then click Add. For more information, see Add part of a clip.
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Click Add.
Premiere Rush adds the media that you have selected to the timeline. They appear where the playhead is positioned.
Add part of a clip
When you add media, you can choose to add only a part of a clip.
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From Media Browser, select the media that you want to add.
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Click the Expand icon to open a larger preview of the clip. Here you can play the clip and choose the portion you want to add to your project.
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From the timeline, select the portion of the clip you want to add. Click the icon.
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After selecting the portion of the clip, click Add.
Import audio
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To add media to your project while editing, click the icon in the left toolbar and select Audio.
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Browse to find the media you want to add to your project.
You can quickly search for in-built audio within Premiere Rush using keywords. The results include matching titles, artists, genres and categories.
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Select the clip and click Add.
Take advantage of pre-recorded soundtracks, sound effects, and loops that come bundled with Premiere Rush. Click the + icon and select Audio. Then browse to the asset you want and click Add to add it to your timeline.
Set audio, input, output, and rendering preferences
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To open the Preferences dialog, choose Edit > Preferences (Windows) or select Premiere Rush > Preferences (macOS).
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To change the location where Premiere Rush stores your copied media, click Choose in the Media Import area. Navigate to the folder where you want to save your media and click Choose again.
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If you have multiple audio input and output options for your computer, set your input and output audio preferences.
By default, Premiere Rush uses the built-in output and the built-in microphone for your system.
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Select these options to improve video playback and rendering performance:
- Select Pre-render sequences for playback if you are facing playback or performance issues. When this option is selected, Premiere Rush pre-renders parts of your sequence in the background to optimize playback.
- Select Enable hardware acceleration encoding and decoding to accelerate the encoding performance while exporting the timeline and decoding while playing back the timeline in H.264/AVC and HEVC codecs. This preference is on by default, but you can turn it off if you are facing playback and rendering issues.
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To remove all cache files and free up disk space, click Manage Cache.
In the Manage Cache dialog box that opens, you can choose to:
- Delete all preview files - <<what does this do?>>
- Delete cache files for media that can no longer be located - <<what does this do?>>
- Delete all cache files - Deleting all media cache files deletes all cache files from the current location. Deleted cache files are recreated automatically whenever source media requires them. To remove all media cache files, restart Premiere Rush and select this option before opening any project.
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Click OK.
Supported file formats for import
Premiere Rush supports several audio and video formats, enabling you to bring media from a large variety of devices for editing in Premiere Rush.
Video formats
File format | Details |
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Apple ProRes |
Apple video compression format |
DNxHD | Supported in native MXF and QuickTime wrappers |
DNxHR | DNxHR LB, DNxHR SQ, DNxHR TR, DNxHR HQ, and DNxHR HQX |
GIF | Animated GIF |
H.264 AVC |
Any media that uses H.264 encoding |
HEVC (H.265) |
H.265 media with resolutions up to 8192x4320 |
M2T | Sony HDV from Sony Handycams |
M2TS | Blu-ray BDAV MPEG-2 Transport Stream, AVCHD (from Sony Handycams) |
M4V | MPEG-4 video file |
MOV | QuickTime format |
MP4 | QuickTime Movie, XDCAM EX |
MTS | AVCHD (broadcast format but also used in Canon camcorders) |
MXF | Media eXchange Format. MXF is a container format that supports:
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webP | Modern image format that provides lossless and lossy compression for images on the web |
Audio formats
File format |
Details |
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WAV |
Windows Waveform |
AIFF, AIF |
Audio Interchange File Format |
MP3 |
mp3 audio |
M4A |
MPEG-4 audio (iTunes format) |
AAC |
Advanced Audio Coding |
Still image formats
File format |
Details |
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BMP, DIB, RLE |
Bitmap |
GIF |
Graphics Interchange Format |
JPEG |
JPE, JPG, JFIF |
PNG |
Portable Network Graphics |
PSD |
Photoshop image format, flattened when it opens in Premiere Rush |
HEIF |
High Efficiency Image File Format |
webP |
Animated webP |
Native camera formats
Format |
Details |
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ARRI AMIRA camera |
Premiere Rush provides built-in support for the ARRI AMIRA camera, with appropriate color LUTs applied as master clips on import. |
Canon XF |
You can work natively with Canon XF and Canon RAW footage, including footage from Canon Cinema EOS C300 and C500 cameras. Premiere Rush lets you natively import and edit QuickTime formats, including Apple ProRes and MOV files that Canon 5D and 7D cameras capture. |
Panasonic AVC, P2 cameras |
You can import and edit media from the following cameras/camera codec formats:
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Sony cameras |
You can import and edit media from the following cameras directly, without rewrapping or transcoding:
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