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What's new
- Beta
- 2024 releases
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Get set up
- Check system requirements
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Driver requirements
- GPU and GPU driver recommendations for Premiere Pro
- Intel GPU driver update requirements
- Apple Metal GPU acceleration
- NVIDIA CUDA graphics acceleration requirements
- Hardware-accelerated decoding and encoding
- Enable hardware encoding support
- Enable hardware accelerated decoding support
- Supported codecs and drivers for hardware-accelerated decoding
- Mercury Playback Engine (GPU Accelerated) renderer FAQ
- Premiere Pro support for older Intel graphic cards
- Troubleshoot driver installation for older Intel graphic cards
- Download software
- Install drivers
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Configure VR
- VR editing in Premiere Pro
- VR auto-detection
- Interpret VR footage
- VR assignments
- Assign VR properties to sequences
- Hide VR video view controls
- 360-degree panning
- Immersive video effects and transitions
- Three-axis video rotation
- Assembling Ambisonics Audio
- Monitor Ambisonics audio
- Restage correctly aligned video and audio
- Publish VR videos
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Learn the basics
- Tour the workspace
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Configure preferences
- Preferences overview
- General preferences
- Appearance preferences
- Audio preferences
- Audio Hardware preferences
- Auto Save preferences
- Collaboration preferences
- Control Surface preferences
- Graphics preferences
- Labels preferences
- Media preferences
- Memory preferences
- Timeline preferences
- Set Trim preferences
- Transcription preferences
- Long Form and Episodic Workflow Guide
- Display video on a second monitor
- Display Premiere Pro interface on a second monitor
- Unable to move panels to the second monitor
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Organize media
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Import files
- Start a new project
- Import media
- Import still images
- Use project templates
- Import Photoshop and Illustrator files
- Import images as an image sequence
- Resize imported images
- Record audio
- Record audio using the Audio Track Mixer
- Record a voice-over on an audio track from the Timeline
- Mute input during recording
- Supported file formats
- Blackmagic RAW support
- File organization
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Apply labeling
- About markers
- Add markers to clips
- Create markers in the 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
- Share markers with After Effects
- About timecode
- View Sequence Timecode
- Choose timecode display format
- Change timecode display format
- Stripe a tape with timecode
- Enter timecode
- Set clip timecode manually
- View timecode as a burn-in
- View source timecode in the Program Monitor
- Timecode display options
- Ingest proxy workflow
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Import files
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Edit project
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Intro to editing
- Add or remove clips
- About Text-Based Editing
- Transcribe video
- Transcribe individual source files
- Edit transcripts using Text-Based Editing
- Add clips to the timeline using Text-Based Editing
- Edit a sequence using Text-Based Editing
- Detect and delete pauses in transcripts
- Multichannel audio support in Text-Based Editing
- Aspect ratios
- Set the aspect ratio of a sequence
- Frame aspect ratio
- Pixel aspect ratio
- Aspect ratio preservation
- Correct aspect ratio misinterpretations
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Trim clips
- Basic Trimming
- Perform Ripple Edits
- Perform Rolling Edits
- Perform Slip edits
- Perform Slide edits
- About Trim mode
- Asymmetrical trimming
- Edit in Trim mode
- How Trimming actions are captured in the History panel
- Cut clips
- Perform J cuts and L cuts
- Perform J-K-L dynamic trimming in Trim mode
- Remove unnecessary cuts while editing
- Freeze a frame for a portion of a clip using Time Remapping
- Freeze a video frame for the duration of a clip
- Freeze video using Frame Hold options
- Change clip speed
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Change clip sequence
- Create a sequence
- Add tracks
- Edit track appearance
- Delete tracks
- Rename tracks
- Sync Lock to prevent changes
- Track Lock to prevent changes
- Sequence presets and settings
- Create a custom sequence preset
- Different ways to move clips
- Rearrange clips on the timeline
- Lift and paste frames
- Copy and paste clips
- Detect edit points using Scene Edit Detection
- Navigate sequences in the timeline
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Intro to editing
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Add text and images
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Insert text
- Create a title
- Create text styles
- Replace fonts in projects
- Motion Graphics templates
- Install Motion Graphics templates
- Add Motion Graphic templates to a sequence
- Customize Motion Graphics templates
- Browse and sort Motion Graphics templates
- Organize Motion Graphics templates
- Use Motion Graphics templates from Adobe Stock
- Use color fonts
- Emojis
- Insert images
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Insert captions
- About captions
- Download language packs from within Premiere Pro
- Download language packs from Creative Cloud
- Deploy language packs for Teams and Enterprise users
- Transcribe video
- Auto transcribe video using Speech-to-Text
- Edit speaker names in the transcription
- Find and replace text in a transcription
- Speech-to-Text transcription options
- Create captions
- Style captions
- Create styles for captions
- Supported file formats for captions
- Languages supported by Speech to Text
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Insert text
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Add video effects
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Apply video effects
- Apply effects
- Copy and paste clip effects
- Remove effects from a clip
- Use FX badges
- Effect Controls panel in Premiere Pro
- About keyframes
- Add keyframes
- Select keyframes
- Delete keyframes
- Keyframes and graphs in panels
- View keyframes in the Effect Controls panel
- View keyframes and properties in the Timeline panel
- Filter properties in the Effect Controls panel
- Adjust controls in the Effect Controls panel
- Move the Current Time Indicator to a keyframe
- Edit keyframe graphs in the Effect Controls panel
- Edit keyframe graphs from a Timeline panel
- About masks
- Create masks using shapes
- Create masks using the Pen tool
- Edit the appearance of a mask
- Adjust mask properties
- Copy and paste masks with effects
- Track masks
- Apply Motion effect
- Stabilize footage
- Warp Stabilizer settings
- Edit and transform vector graphics using Vector Motion effect
- About Auto Reframe
- Add the Auto Reframe effect to a clip
- Auto Reframe an entire sequence
- Manage effects and plug-ins
- Add video transitions
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Apply video effects
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Add audio effects
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Edit audio
- Audio crossfade transitions
- Specify default audio transitions
- Crossfade between audio clips (beta)
- Fade in or fade out clip audio (beta)
- Audio channel mapping
- Map source audio channels on import
- Change source audio channel mapping
- Map sequence audio channels
- Map to audio output device hardware channels
- Extract audio from clips
- Break a stereo track into mono tracks
- Link audio and video clips
- Use mono clips as stereo clips
- Edit a multi-clip link in the Source Monitor
- Set source In and Out points for a split edit
- Set sample-based audio In and Out points
- Synchronize audio and video
- Automatically synchronize out-of-sync clips
- Synchronize clips in the Timeline panel
- Merge clips in the Project panel
- Merge clips in the Timeline panel
- Edit merged clips
- Edit metadata of merged clips
- Use the timecode from an audio primary clip to create a merged clip
- Limitations of merged clips
- Adjust volume
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Edit audio
-
Correct color
- Manage color preferences
- Add color effects
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Export and share
- Export file
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Collaborate with others
- About Team Projects
- Connect to Team Projects service
- About Frame.io
- Upload media to Frame.io
- Share for review with Frame.io (beta)
- Add comments on shared projects
- Import comments as markers
- Add collaborators using the Frame.io panel
- Remove collaborators using the Frame.io panel
- Frame.io for Adobe Creative Cloud Frequently Asked Questions
- Frame.io for creative cloud Accounts and Billing FAQ
- Secure Reliable Transport
- Invite collaborators to co-edit a project (beta)
-
Troubleshooting
- Install issue
- Application crash
- Video performance
- Audio performance
- Rendering issue
- Change preferences
- Known and fixed issues
-
What's new
- Beta
- 2024 releases
-
Get set up
- Check system requirements
-
Driver requirements
- GPU and GPU driver recommendations for Premiere Pro
- Intel GPU driver update requirements
- Apple Metal GPU acceleration
- NVIDIA CUDA graphics acceleration requirements
- Hardware-accelerated decoding and encoding
- Enable hardware encoding support
- Enable hardware accelerated decoding support
- Supported codecs and drivers for hardware-accelerated decoding
- Mercury Playback Engine (GPU Accelerated) renderer FAQ
- Premiere Pro support for older Intel graphic cards
- Troubleshoot driver installation for older Intel graphic cards
- Download software
- Install drivers
-
Configure VR
- VR editing in Premiere Pro
- VR auto-detection
- Interpret VR footage
- VR assignments
- Assign VR properties to sequences
- Hide VR video view controls
- 360-degree panning
- Immersive video effects and transitions
- Three-axis video rotation
- Assembling Ambisonics Audio
- Monitor Ambisonics audio
- Restage correctly aligned video and audio
- Publish VR videos
-
Learn the basics
- Tour the workspace
-
Configure preferences
- Preferences overview
- General preferences
- Appearance preferences
- Audio preferences
- Audio Hardware preferences
- Auto Save preferences
- Collaboration preferences
- Control Surface preferences
- Graphics preferences
- Labels preferences
- Media preferences
- Memory preferences
- Timeline preferences
- Set Trim preferences
- Transcription preferences
- Long Form and Episodic Workflow Guide
- Display video on a second monitor
- Display Premiere Pro interface on a second monitor
- Unable to move panels to the second monitor
-
Organize media
-
Import files
- Start a new project
- Import media
- Import still images
- Use project templates
- Import Photoshop and Illustrator files
- Import images as an image sequence
- Resize imported images
- Record audio
- Record audio using the Audio Track Mixer
- Record a voice-over on an audio track from the Timeline
- Mute input during recording
- Supported file formats
- Blackmagic RAW support
- File organization
-
Apply labeling
- About markers
- Add markers to clips
- Create markers in the 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
- Share markers with After Effects
- About timecode
- View Sequence Timecode
- Choose timecode display format
- Change timecode display format
- Stripe a tape with timecode
- Enter timecode
- Set clip timecode manually
- View timecode as a burn-in
- View source timecode in the Program Monitor
- Timecode display options
- Ingest proxy workflow
-
Import files
-
Edit project
-
Intro to editing
- Add or remove clips
- About Text-Based Editing
- Transcribe video
- Transcribe individual source files
- Edit transcripts using Text-Based Editing
- Add clips to the timeline using Text-Based Editing
- Edit a sequence using Text-Based Editing
- Detect and delete pauses in transcripts
- Multichannel audio support in Text-Based Editing
- Aspect ratios
- Set the aspect ratio of a sequence
- Frame aspect ratio
- Pixel aspect ratio
- Aspect ratio preservation
- Correct aspect ratio misinterpretations
-
Trim clips
- Basic Trimming
- Perform Ripple Edits
- Perform Rolling Edits
- Perform Slip edits
- Perform Slide edits
- About Trim mode
- Asymmetrical trimming
- Edit in Trim mode
- How Trimming actions are captured in the History panel
- Cut clips
- Perform J cuts and L cuts
- Perform J-K-L dynamic trimming in Trim mode
- Remove unnecessary cuts while editing
- Freeze a frame for a portion of a clip using Time Remapping
- Freeze a video frame for the duration of a clip
- Freeze video using Frame Hold options
- Change clip speed
-
Change clip sequence
- Create a sequence
- Add tracks
- Edit track appearance
- Delete tracks
- Rename tracks
- Sync Lock to prevent changes
- Track Lock to prevent changes
- Sequence presets and settings
- Create a custom sequence preset
- Different ways to move clips
- Rearrange clips on the timeline
- Lift and paste frames
- Copy and paste clips
- Detect edit points using Scene Edit Detection
- Navigate sequences in the timeline
-
Intro to editing
-
Add text and images
-
Insert text
- Create a title
- Create text styles
- Replace fonts in projects
- Motion Graphics templates
- Install Motion Graphics templates
- Add Motion Graphic templates to a sequence
- Customize Motion Graphics templates
- Browse and sort Motion Graphics templates
- Organize Motion Graphics templates
- Use Motion Graphics templates from Adobe Stock
- Use color fonts
- Emojis
- Insert images
-
Insert captions
- About captions
- Download language packs from within Premiere Pro
- Download language packs from Creative Cloud
- Deploy language packs for Teams and Enterprise users
- Transcribe video
- Auto transcribe video using Speech-to-Text
- Edit speaker names in the transcription
- Find and replace text in a transcription
- Speech-to-Text transcription options
- Create captions
- Style captions
- Create styles for captions
- Supported file formats for captions
- Languages supported by Speech to Text
-
Insert text
-
Add video effects
-
Apply video effects
- Apply effects
- Copy and paste clip effects
- Remove effects from a clip
- Use FX badges
- Effect Controls panel in Premiere Pro
- About keyframes
- Add keyframes
- Select keyframes
- Delete keyframes
- Keyframes and graphs in panels
- View keyframes in the Effect Controls panel
- View keyframes and properties in the Timeline panel
- Filter properties in the Effect Controls panel
- Adjust controls in the Effect Controls panel
- Move the Current Time Indicator to a keyframe
- Edit keyframe graphs in the Effect Controls panel
- Edit keyframe graphs from a Timeline panel
- About masks
- Create masks using shapes
- Create masks using the Pen tool
- Edit the appearance of a mask
- Adjust mask properties
- Copy and paste masks with effects
- Track masks
- Apply Motion effect
- Stabilize footage
- Warp Stabilizer settings
- Edit and transform vector graphics using Vector Motion effect
- About Auto Reframe
- Add the Auto Reframe effect to a clip
- Auto Reframe an entire sequence
- Manage effects and plug-ins
- Add video transitions
-
Apply video effects
-
Add audio effects
-
Edit audio
- Audio crossfade transitions
- Specify default audio transitions
- Crossfade between audio clips (beta)
- Fade in or fade out clip audio (beta)
- Audio channel mapping
- Map source audio channels on import
- Change source audio channel mapping
- Map sequence audio channels
- Map to audio output device hardware channels
- Extract audio from clips
- Break a stereo track into mono tracks
- Link audio and video clips
- Use mono clips as stereo clips
- Edit a multi-clip link in the Source Monitor
- Set source In and Out points for a split edit
- Set sample-based audio In and Out points
- Synchronize audio and video
- Automatically synchronize out-of-sync clips
- Synchronize clips in the Timeline panel
- Merge clips in the Project panel
- Merge clips in the Timeline panel
- Edit merged clips
- Edit metadata of merged clips
- Use the timecode from an audio primary clip to create a merged clip
- Limitations of merged clips
- Adjust volume
-
Edit audio
-
Correct color
- Manage color preferences
- Add color effects
-
Export and share
- Export file
-
Collaborate with others
- About Team Projects
- Connect to Team Projects service
- About Frame.io
- Upload media to Frame.io
- Share for review with Frame.io (beta)
- Add comments on shared projects
- Import comments as markers
- Add collaborators using the Frame.io panel
- Remove collaborators using the Frame.io panel
- Frame.io for Adobe Creative Cloud Frequently Asked Questions
- Frame.io for creative cloud Accounts and Billing FAQ
- Secure Reliable Transport
- Invite collaborators to co-edit a project (beta)
-
Troubleshooting
- Install issue
- Application crash
- Video performance
- Audio performance
- Rendering issue
- Change preferences
- Known and fixed issues
Navigate sequences in the timeline
When you launch Premiere Pro, a single Timeline panel appears in a frame in the lower central portion of the screen.
You can remove all sequences from a Timeline or add multiple sequences. Each sequence appears as a tab within that Timeline. You can also open multiple timelines, each within its own frame, with each containing any number of sequences.
You can show or hide items by selecting or deselecting them in the Timeline panel menu. These items include time ruler numbers and the work area bar.
Open a sequence in the Timeline panel
To open a new sequence in a Timeline panel, double-click the sequence in the Project panel. The sequence opens in a new tab.
Open multiple Timeline panels
You can open more than one Timeline if you have more than one sequence in a project. When you open a sequence, it opens in a new tab. Drag the tab into another docking area. The sequence appears in a new Timeline.
Navigation controls in the Timeline panel
A Timeline panel contains several controls for moving through the frames of a sequence.
A. Time ruler B. Work area bar C. Playhead D. Playhead position E. Zoom scroll bar
Time ruler
Time ruler measures sequences of time horizontally. Numbers indicate that the sequence time is displayed along the ruler from left to right. They change according to the level of detail at which you view the sequence.
By default, these numbers are based on the timecode display style specified in the Display Format field of the Sequence Settings dialog box.
Work Area Bar
The Work Area Bar specifies the area of the sequence that you want to render previews or to define a region you plan to export. The work area bar is located in the lower portion of the time ruler. The work area bar isn't available by default. To activate it, select the three stacked lines next to the sequence name and choose Work Area Bar from the drop-down list.
You can drag the edges of the Work Area Bar or use keyboard shortcuts to set the work area in a sequence.
Playhead
Playhead indicates the current frame displayed in the Program Monitor. The playhead is a blue triangle on the ruler. A vertical line extends from the playhead to the bottom of the time ruler. You can change the current time by dragging the playhead.
Playhead position
Playhead position shows the timecode for the current frame in a Timeline panel. To move to a different time, select the Playhead position and enter a new time. You can also place the pointer over the display and drag left or right.
You can change the display between the timecode and the simple frame count. Ctrl-click (Windows) or Command-click (macOS) the current time in either the monitor or the Timeline panel.
Zoom scroll bar
The zoom scroll bar is at the bottom of the Timeline panel. This bar corresponds with the visible area of the time ruler in the Timeline. The Source Monitor and Program Monitor also have zoom scroll bars. You can drag the handles to change the width of the bar and change the scale of the time ruler.
Expanding the bar to its maximum width reveals the entire duration of the time ruler. Contracting the bar, zooms in for a more detailed view of the ruler. Expanding and contracting the bar is centered on the playhead.By positioning the mouse over the bar, you can scroll the mouse wheel to expand and contract the bar. By dragging the center of the bar, you can scroll the visible part of a time ruler without changing its scale. When you drag the bar, you're not moving the playhead. However, you can move the bar and then select the time ruler to move the playhead to the same area as the bar.
Navigate in a sequence
Position the playhead in the Timeline panel
To position the playhead in the Timeline panel, drag the playhead to the required position.
Move the playhead using timecode
To move to playhead using timecode, select the timecode value in the playhead position. Type a new time, and press Enter (Windows) or Return (macOS).
Snap to clip edges and markers
To snap to clip edges and markers, shift-drag the playhead in the Timeline panel.
Zoom into or out of a sequence in the Timeline panel
To zoom into or out of a sequence in the timeline, press + to zoom in. To zoom out, press -.
Scroll horizontally in a sequence in the Timeline panel
When you have a long sequence of clips, many of them are out of view. If a clip is out of view, scroll horizontally in your sequence in the Timeline panel. You can also scroll the mouse wheel or use the Page Up key to move left and the Page Down key to move right.
To scroll, the Timeline panel need not be selected, however, your mouse must hover over the Timeline panel.
Scroll vertically in a sequence in the Timeline panel
When video or audio clips are stacked up in tracks on the timeline, they can sometimes be hidden from view. If a clip is out of view, scroll vertically in your sequence in the Timeline. To scroll vertically, drag up or down in the scroll bar on the right of the Timeline panel or move two fingers vertically on the multi-touch trackpad to navigate the sequence vertically on MacBook Pro computers.
To scroll, the Timeline panel need not be selected, however, your mouse must hover over the Timeline panel.