Windows 10
Premiere Pro 22.3.1 (Build 2)

Premiere Pro randomly crashes when a project containing one (or more) VST3 plug-ins is exported to Final Cut Pro XML.

How to reproduce it:

• Add a VST3 plug-in to an audio clip;
• Select file -> export -> Final Cut Pro XML;
• (get a Translation Report warning about the effect not being translated, should be harmless);
• get a random crash after a while.

The crash is non-deterministic: sometimes it happens right away, sometimes after Premiere is sent to background below another app, sometimes after I delete the XML file manually.

The crash occurs also if the XML export is triggered via ExtendScript and the exportAsFinalCutProXML(path) function.

I was able to get the backtrace for a specific crash (see attachment).

When you are "seeking," (which means QUICKLY looking through a long video by clicking and dragging the playhead with the cursor,) there is sometimes very high "prefetch latency," meaning that frames will load slowly, resulting in very few frames being shown. This can make it very difficult to find what you're looking for.

But when seeking, perfect frame accuracy is not nearly as important as seeing what you're doing. Therefore, to reduce the "prefetch latency," I suggest that the nearest I-frame is loaded and displayed FIRST, (because I-frames are always the fastest to load) while the exact B or P frame is still being slowly decoded. As soon as it's decoded, it can be displayed, replacing the displayed I-frame.

If the user is seeking quickly, there might not be enough time to load the P and B frames before the user has already moved the playhead nearer to another I-frame. This is fine! The I-frames should always take priority.

In VLC, there is a similar feature called "fast seek."

Combined with my "ghost playhead" feature suggestion, it would be made clear to the user exactly what is going on. (Linked below)

However, it would probably be important for fast seeking to be optional, and perhaps even off by default, as it may confuse some users.

NOTE: This works best if only ONE video source is visible. With more than one video on the timeline, the I-frames will probably not be in the same spots. Nevertheless, it COULD still work, but there would have to be multiple ghost playheads. This might be too difficult to code, and confusing and frustrating for users, who won't understand why premiere is showing video frames out of lockstep, especially in cases where one video has high prefetch latency, and the other is low.

LINK TO FULL EXPLANATORY VIDEO: https://youtu.be/XeFezzmG22c

LINK TO GHOST PLAYHEAD USERVOICE ENTRY: https://adobe-video.uservoice.com/forums/911233-premiere-pro/suggestions/42186274-a-ghost-playhead-which-always-marks-the-timeline

Frame.io is great, however using it for the first time on a commercial I think I've found a glaring issue...

Shoot in the US, edit in London. Director spends his entire flight from NY on Frame.io adding comments to the rushes: favourite takes etc.

Great I think, I've already imported the footage, I'll look for the 'import comments button' and when he gets here I'll have everything ready.

But no... nothing!

Turns out Frame.io can only syncronize comments from a sequence, not clips!

Now, I realise it's possible to view comments in the Frame.io panel, and that might be fine if it's only a couple, but 100+ comments, over 6 days worth of rushes, on a deadline, forget it!

Director's always make shot selections so it was inevitable they'd use Frame.io for exactly this.

Please please add this functionality. Should be easy now you own the company ;)

Hi team.

Just jumping in on the wave of issues in the new update and starting this thread to hopefully and constructively focus on the import tab.
But before that - Appreciate all the hard work and definitely don't condone hate speech, death threats etc...

Now given y’all don’t seem too keen to revert to the old ways - here are some issues and possible suggestions

Issue: Can’t create a sequence first and then add media.

Reasoning: I guess a lot of pros/orgs already do some media management first on larger projects and quite often the sequence settings is different to clip settings also there are numerous clips settings

Solutions: We have a button somewhere that allows us to create project/sequence without selecting media. OR ideally, we can click the “Edit” tab and this takes us to a naked a project similar to after effects or old ui.

Issue: New folders don’t always appear in import tab.

Further explanation: If I am creating a new project and add a new folder via system ui under the “Project Location” dropdown tab. The import tab doesn’t show the newly created folder. Sometimes it appears if I go to a new another folder and comeback to the same location but other times I have to restart premiere.

Solution: Maybe we can right click on the import tab and click “Refresh” or click “Add New Folder”

Issue: UI feels slow. This is less of an issue but more of an annoyance.

Further explanation: All our computers here are intel 12gen 12900k or amd thread rippers with multiple GPUs and with usable ram sitting anywhere between 64-256Gb and all of them seem to be a touch sluggish on this new ui. I.e. the grey highlight box around the folder are slow to light up when the mouse hovers over them. When you select a folder / file itsa touch slow for it to turn blue. When you click into a folder there is a lag. The more files there are the slower it gets.

Solution: not too sure 😊 Hopefully we can speed it up. Especially when we compare it to system ui or even media browser.

Hope that’s constructive.

The new Universal Text Engine is amazing, works 99% of the time. However I spotted is not displaying pauses/breaks in Quranic verses in certain fonts. Noorehuda is a font that supports these characters online but in Premiere they don't show up. Only in the default font it does appear correctly, but it isn't appearing in several arabic fonts we use.

If you can fix this bug it would be greatly appreciated! It's so close to perfect already but we cannot use it unless all the characters can be displayed in the noorehuda font.

Quran arabic text for your reference:

ذٰلِکَ الۡفَضۡلُ مِنَ اللّٰہِ ؕ وَ کَفٰی بِاللّٰہِ عَلِیۡمًا ﴿٪۷۱﴾

Thank you in advance.

If Legacy title tool is going away, please add it's functionality to the essential graphics panel. I'm a very avid user of the legacy title tool and I find that I'm infinitely more proficient and efficient when using the legacy title tool vs the essential graphics panel.

If adobe is going to force us users to switch to the Essential graphics panel in future updates, I would great appreciate some of the key functionality of the legacy title tool being implemented into the essential graphics tool.

Specific features:
- In Legacy Titler (LT), the user has a line tool to create a very simple line either horizontally, vertically or diagonally. Essential graphics only gives us the option of a rectangle which you have to then approximate into a line if you need a line. Also LT gives us the ability to control the width/weight of the line with a number, making it even easier to create said line.
- in the same idea, LT gives us shape tools like the circle tool which we can use to create a perfect circle by holding down the shift key while clicking and dragging. Essential graphics has an ellipse but when it is selected, the shape isn't a perfect circle and theres no easy way that I can find to make it a perfect circle.
- Alt+Click and drag to duplicate. In LT, you can click on a shape, line or text while holding the Alt key and duplicate that item. Essential graphics does not have this functionality.
- Inner/Outer stroke: In LT, the user can choose to create a stroke on the outside of an object or the inside. The outer stroke creates a rounded edge on sharp corners. In the Essential graphics, the stroke option seems to only limit the user to an inner stroke which creates a very sharp corner and may not always be the desired choice.
- LT has the "*****" parameter for text, which is very useful. I cannot find the same parameter in the Essential graphics panel.
- Fill options: LT gives us the ability to choose bevels, gradients, solid and eliminate fills while Essential graphics seems to only give us the option of a solid fill or no fill. Those extra options could be necessary to someone.
- Back to the shape options, the Pen tool is present in LT while it is not an option in the Essential graphics.

I hope someone from adobe sees this and at least considers the idea. I'm sure I'm not alone in this need for these features to be available in Premiere. As it stands, I'm simply unable to get the same results with Essential Graphics that I can easily achieve in LT.

PFCHECKOUTPARAM no longer returns a valid image from PFCmdUSERPARAMCHANGED in Premiere Beta, as of 22.1.1 BETA build 41.
Occurs on Mac and Windows, every system, every time. PFCHECKOUTPARAM doesn't return an error but the effect world have bogus value, like very large width and rowbytes.
If we need to use another API that's fine, but PFCHECKOUTPARAM should at least return an error.
PrSDKSequenceRenderSuite seems to be the alternative, but I have not yet tried setting other parameters from the completion callback.

To reproduce this, download Beauty Box, apply and click on Analyze Frame (image content doesn't matter).
https://digitalanarchy.com/demos/psd_mac.html#d4
https://digitalanarchy.com/demos/psd_win.html#d4

When selecting text in the 'Text' -> 'Captions' panel and copying/cutting, the last character selected becomes deselected.

For example, if I copy the phrase 'The quick brown fox' and paste it into another caption, the pasted text reads 'The quick brown fo'.

This is more frustrating when cutting text as the last character remains in the original location.

For example, if I select and cut 'The quick brown fox' and paste it into a new caption, I end up with 'x' in the original caption and 'The quick brown fo' in the new caption.

This has been a bug through various recent updates and affects all projects.