The menu commands 'Scale to Frame size' and 'Set to frame size' must win the award for the most badly named commands in Premiere Pro. I teach PrPro and they are almost guaranteed to generate a look of quizzical incredulity on any new users face when I tell them that the command with 'Scale' in its name doesn't adjust the scale parameter, but the one without 'Scale' in the name does...

It's time to grab the bull by the horns and fix this.

In addition...
Frame sizes ain't what they used to be. 16x9 isn't the one and only. We have social media: Square formats, portrait formats, whatever format you like. These commands need flexibility for different formats.

My suggestion:
These commands are grouped under a 'Transform' sub menu as follows:

'Set to frame size' is broken down into three components, named as follows:

Scale to Fit Frame
Scale to Frame Width
Scale to Frame Height

and, as a fourth sub menu entry...
'Scale to frame size' becomes 'Resample to current size'

...and this works in a slightly different way to the current version: When 'Resample to current size' is selected, the content maintains its current visual size, but is internally resampled to 100% scale - with 100% showing is the Effects Controls > Motion > Scale property.

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).

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.