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Adobe Premiere Pro User Guide
Beta releases
1. Beta Program Overview
2. Premiere Pro Beta Home
3. Beta features
Getting started
1. Get started with Adobe Premiere Pro
2. What's new in Premiere Pro
3. Best practices for updating Premiere Pro
4. Keyboard shortcuts in Premiere Pro
5. Accessibility in Premiere Pro
6. Frequently asked questions
7. Release notes
Hardware and operating system requirements
1. Hardware recommendations
2. System requirements
3. GPU and GPU Driver requirements
4. GPU Accelerated Rendering & Hardware Encoding/Decoding
Creating projects
1. Start a new project
2. Open projects
3. Move and delete projects
4. Work with multiple open projects
5. Work with Project Shortcuts
6. Backward compatibility of Premiere Pro projects
7. Open and edit Premiere Rush projects in Premiere Pro
8. Best Practices: Create your own project templates
Workspaces and workflows
1. Workspaces
2. Import and export FAQs
3. Working with Panels
4. Windows touch and gesture controls
5. Use Premiere Pro in a dual-monitor setup
Frame.io
1. Install and activate Frame.io
2. Use Frame.io with Premiere Pro and After Effects
3. Integrate Adobe Workfront and Frame.io
4. Invite collaborators to co-edit a project
5. Frequently asked questions
Import media
1. Importing
2. Importing from Avid or Final Cut
  1. Importing AAF project files from Avid Media Composer
  2. Importing XML project files from Final Cut Pro 7 and Final Cut Pro X
3. File formats
  1. Supported file formats
  2. Support for Blackmagic RAW
4. Working with timecode
Editing
1. Edit video
2. Sequences
3. Cut and trim clips
4. Video
5. Audio
6. Text-Based Editing
  1. Text-Based Editing
  2. Text-Based Editing FAQs
7. Advanced editing
  1. Multi-camera editing workflow
  2. Editing VR
8. Best Practices
Video Effects and Transitions
1. Overview of video effects and transitions
2. Effects
3. Transitions
Titles, Graphics, and Captions
1. Properties panel
2. Essential Graphics panel (24.x and earlier)
3. Motion Graphics Templates
4. Best Practices: Faster graphics workflows
5. Retiring the Legacy Titler FAQs
6. Upgrade Legacy titles to Source Graphics
Fonts and emojis
1. Color fonts
2. Emojis
Animation and Keyframing
1. Adding, navigating, and setting keyframes
2. Animating effects
3. Use Motion effect to edit and animate clips
4. Optimize keyframe automation
5. Moving and copying keyframes
6. Viewing and adjusting effects and keyframes
Compositing
1. Compositing, alpha channels, and adjusting clip opacity
2. Masking and tracking
3. Blending modes
Color Correction and Grading
1. Overview: Color workflows in Premiere Pro
2. Color Settings
3. Auto Color
4. Get creative with color using Lumetri looks
5. Adjust color using RGB and Hue Saturation Curves
6. Correct and match colors between shots
7. Using HSL Secondary controls in the Lumetri Color panel
8. Create vignettes
9. Looks and LUTs
10. Lumetri scopes
11. Display Color Management
12. Timeline tone mapping
13. HDR for broadcasters
14. Enable DirectX HDR support
Exporting media
1. Export video
2. Export Preset Manager
3. Workflow and overview for exporting
4. Quick export
5. Exporting for the Web and mobile devices
6. Export a still image
7. Exporting projects for other applications
8. Exporting OMF files for Pro Tools
9. Export to Panasonic P2 format
10. Export settings
11. Best Practices: Export faster
Collaborative editing
1. Collaboration in Premiere Pro
2. Get started with collaborative video editing
3. Create Team Projects
4. Add and manage media in Team Projects
5. Invite and manage collaborators
6. Share and manage changes with collaborators
7. View auto saves and versions of Team Projects
8. Manage Team Projects
9. Linked Team Projects
10. Frequently asked questions
Long form and Episodic workflows
1. Long Form and Episodic Workflow Guide
2. Using Productions
3. How clips work across projects in a Production
4. Best Practices: Working with Productions
Working with other Adobe applications
1. After Effects and Photoshop
2. Dynamic Link
3. Audition
4. Prelude
Organizing and Managing Assets
1. Working in the Project panel
2. Organize assets in the Project panel
3. Playing assets
4. Search assets
5. Creative Cloud Libraries
6. Sync Settings in Premiere Pro
7. Consolidate, transcode, and archive projects
8. Managing metadata
9. Best Practices
  1. Best Practices: Learning from broadcast production
  2. Best Practices: Working with native formats
Improving Performance and Troubleshooting
1. Set preferences
2. Reset and restore preferences
3. Recovery Mode
4. Working with Proxies
  1. Proxy overview
  2. Ingest and Proxy Workflow
5. Check if your system is compatible with Premiere Pro
6. Premiere Pro for Apple silicon
7. Eliminate flicker
8. Interlacing and field order
9. Smart rendering
10. Control surface support
11. Best Practices: Working with native formats
12. Knowledge Base
Extensions and plugins
1. Installing plugins and extensions in Premiere Pro
2. Latest plugins from third-party developers
Video and audio streaming
1. Secure Reliable Transport (SRT)
Monitoring Assets and Offline Media
1. Monitoring assets
  1. Using the Source Monitor and Program Monitor
  2. Using the Reference Monitor
2. Offline media

Learn how to use the various controls in the Source Monitor and the Program Monitor in Premiere Pro.

Play video

The Source Monitor and Program Monitor contain several controls that resemble the playback controls on a video deck. To play or cue a clip, use the Source Monitor controls. To play or view the active sequence, use the Program Monitor controls.

By default, the most useful buttons are displayed along the bottom of the Source and Program Monitors. However, the playback controls are customizable with the use of the Button Editor. To open the button editor, click the icon at the lower right corner of the panel. The Button Editor launches. Drag the button of your choice into the button bar.

You can only add two rows of buttons. To remove a button, drag it away from the button bar. To hide the buttons bar, click the wrench icon and select Show Transport Controls from the pop-up list.

To see its keyboard shortcut, hover over a button with the mouse. Most playback controls have keyboard equivalents. When you want to use keyboard shortcuts to control playback, make sure that the monitor you want is active. Click the monitor you want to activate it. A blue border appears around the monitor to show that it has been selected.

Keyboard shortcuts

Many commands have keyboard shortcut equivalents, so you can complete tasks with minimal use of the mouse. You can also create or edit keyboard shortcuts. For more information, see Keyboard shortcuts in Premiere Pro.

Result	Windows	macOS
Play	Space, L	Space, L
Stop	Space, K	Space, K
Play in reverse	J	J
Play Video In to Out	Na	Na
Loop Playback	Na	Na
Play Around	Shift + K	Shift + K
Mark In	I	I
Mark Out	O	O
Clear In	Ctrl + Shift + I	Opt + I
Clear Out	Ctrl + Shift + O	Opt + O

Result	Icon	Windows	macOS
Step forward one frame		Right, K + L	Right, K + L
Step forward five frames	Shift +	Shift + Right	Shift + Right
Step back one frame		Left, K + J	Left, K + J
Step back five frames	Shift +	Shift + Left	Shift + Left
Go to next marker		Shift + M	Shift + M
Go to previous marker		Ctrl + Shift + M	Cmd + Shift + M
Go To In		Shift + I	Shift + I
Go To Out		Shift + O	Shift + O
Go To Next Edit Point		Down	Down
Go To Previous Edit Point		Up	Up

Note:

When using keyboard shortcuts to move in a time ruler, make sure the panel that you want is active. (Japanese-language keyboards only) To use these keyboard shortcuts on a Japanese-language keyboard, make sure that your keyboard is in direct input mode, rather than Japanese input mode.

Continuous Playback

Playback continues unless the user specifically issues a Stop command. This feature supports real-time adjustment of editing actions. For example, you could adjust video effects while you are playing back in a loop.

To play back in a loop, do the following:

Drag the playhead to the frame you want and set the In and Out point.

To set the In point, Click Mark In, or press I. To set the Out point, click Mark Out, or press O.
Once the In and Out points have been set, click the Loop icon.

If the icon is not present in the button bar, drag-and-drop from the Button Editor. For more information, see Customizing the monitor panel button bar.

Here are some of the actions that do not stop continuous playback:

Keyframing of effects
Interface items
Timeline items
Metadata entry

Audio parameters
Titling
Zooming in and out of the timeline
Switching away from the application

Play with preroll and postroll

The Play Around icon plays a fixed number of seconds before and after the position of the playhead. The default settings are 3-seconds preroll and 2-seconds postroll.

To change the duration of preroll and post roll, go to Edit > Preferences > Playback.

To preview a clip or sequence with preroll and postroll pauses, do one the following:

Shift + K – Plays a few seconds before the position of the playhead and a few seconds after the position of the playhead.

Shift + space - Plays a few seconds before and after an In and Out selection.

Use the J, K, and L keys to shuttle video

Using the J, K, and L keys, you can move through frames in a sequence quickly and shuttle through icons.

Modifier Key

The K key is a modifier and stop playback key.

Play in reverse

To move the playhead in reverse at a normal speed, press J.
To move it backwards faster, press JJ.
To move backward slowly, press J and K.
To move back one frame at a time, press K and tap the J key.
To play in reverse slightly faster, press Shift + J.

Play forward

To move the playhead forward, press L.
To move it forward faster, press LL.
To move forward slowly, press L and K.
To move forward one frame at a time, press K and tap the L key.
To play forward slightly faster, press Shift + L.

Note:

If you are playing back too quickly, press the opposite keyboard shortcut to slow playback. For example, if you were playing back too quickly forward, press Shift + J to slow playback down by one increment.

You can press Shift + L and Shift + J up to five times to fine-tune the speed of playback.

Match a frame with its source

The Source Monitor plays back individual clips. In the Source Monitor, you prepare clips that you want to add to a sequence. You can set In and Out point, insert markers and specify the source tracks of a clip.

The Program Monitor plays back the sequence of clips that you are assembling. It is your view of the active sequence in a Timeline panel. You can set sequence markers and specify sequence In and Out points. Sequence In points and Out points define where frames are added or removed from the sequence. For more information, see Using the Source Monitor and Program Monitor.

While editing in a Timeline panel, you can find the source frame for any sequence clip and display it in the Source Monitor.

To match a frame with its source, do the following:

Find the clip in the timeline. Place the playhead over the desired frame in a clip.
Do one of the following:
- Choose Sequence > Match Frame.
- Press the F key.
- For a clip in a nested sequence, type the keyboard shortcut for Reveal Nested Sequence, Ctrl + Shift + T (Windows), or Shift + T (macOS) by default.

Note:

If the source clip for the frame in the sequence clip is already open in the Source Monitor or listed in the Source menu, the Source Monitor displays the last frame you viewed in the clip. To match the frame, close the clip in the Source Monitor before typing the Match Frame or Reveal Nested Sequence keyboard shortcut.

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Playing assets

Play video

Keyboard shortcuts

Continuous Playback

Play with preroll and postroll

Use the J, K, and L keys to shuttle video

Modifier Key

Play in reverse

Play forward

Match a frame with its source

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