The universal convention for selecting items works as follows (in MS Windows’ Explorer and all convention-respecting software, including most Adobe programs):

Ctrl-select = selects or deselects individual items, one by one.
Shift-select = selects the range of items between a selected item and the Shift-selected one
Ctrl-A = selects all items

Unfortunately, Premiere Pro has major consistency issues when it comes to how items are selected. This results in user frustration/confusion and a much less than ideal workflow. Here are the issues and proposed solutions (see chart):

PROJECT WINDOW: Shift & Ctrl-selecting/deselecting works as expected in all views: Icon, List and Freeform. With a current selection of clips, Ctrl-selecting another clip and then Shift-Ctrl-selecting yet another clips allows a second range of clips to be selected. This works in Icon and List view but not in Freeform view. SOLUTION: allow Shift-Ctrl-selecting additional ranges of clips to work in Freeform view as well.

TIMELINE: Ctrl-selecting does not work. Shift-selecting clips works the way Ctrl-selecting does: it selects clips 1 by 1. This is unexpected and unhelpful. SOLUTION: Enable Ctrl-selection/deselection of individual clips. Allow Shift-select to select all clips within a range. If the first selected clip is on V1 and the user Shift-selects another clip on V1, then all clips in between on V1 should be selected. If the user Shift-selects a second clip on V3, then all clips in between on V1, V2 and V3 should be selected, and so forth.

ESSENTIAL GRAPHICS and LEGACY TITLER: Ctrl-select doesn’t work while Shift-select performs the function of Ctrl-select: titles are selected 1 by 1. SOLUTION: Respect selection conventions… Ctrl-select selects titles 1 by 1, Shift-select selects all titles between the first and last selected title. NOTE: oddly, selecting titles directly in the Essential Graphics panel DOES follow selection convention: Ctrl and Shift-selecting works as expected (with the exception that a user cannot Ctrl-deselect an individual title. Trying to do so deselects all selected titles). This means that not only are there selection inconsistencies between tools in Premiere, but there’s even inconsistencies within some tools themselves!

EFFECT CONTROLS: Ctrl-select selects individual effects, but Shift-select doesn’t work. With regards to keyframes, both Shift and Ctrl-select selects keyframes individually. With regards to Text layers (under Vector Motion) everything works as expected. SOLUTION: Allow Shift-select to select a range of effects/keyframes as expected by software convention.

EFFECTS: Ctrl-select works as expected. Shift-select does not work. SOLUTION: Enable Shift-select to select a range of effects. Why would a user ever want to do this? To easily select a group of effects to drag into a custom bin for organizational purposes.

CAPTIONS: Shift and Ctrl select work as expected, but this is the only place in Premiere where Ctrl-A does not work for selecting all items at once. SOLUTION: Fix this strange and frustrating omission so that users can more easily select all of their captions at once to make global styling changes.

Fixing 'boring' issues like this could have a bigger overall positive impact on editors than introducing flashy new features. Please fix what's already there before dedicating limited resources to new tools most people will never use! As always, thanks for listening!

After updating my Adobe CC software Premiere and After Effects have both been crashing when launching the applications. They freeze on "Loading AEXD.aex". Once the app freezes it become nearly impossible to kill it in Task Manager without restarting the computer. Also, when the app is frozen, file explorer becomes sluggish or completely unresponsive.

I've been using this PC for almost a year now and I have not had any issues until the latest release of Adobe Software. I've used the CC cleaner tool and that didn't solve the issue. I've tried installing previous versions of AE and Premiere and that didn't work. I've tried different drivers for the GPU

I've used WIndows 10's Restart option which completely wipes all applications from my computer while retaining personal files. I've used this four times in the past week in an attempt to completely remove any lingering Adobe files that weren't removed by the CC Cleaner tool. Each time, I reinstall applications and update drivers and everything works until I power down my computer and then turn it on again.

Photoshop and Illustrator appear to be working fine, Premiere and After Effects continue to freeze.

Premiere Pro Version 14.3.1
After Effects Version 17.1.2

RTX 2080 ti
AMD Ryzen 9 3900x
64 GB RAM
Windows 10 Pro

This does not happen all the time. I can't tell what causes it to start, but once the problem manifests itself, it is there 100% of the time until I reboot. It then doesn't happen again for a while.

This happens with Premiere Pro 2020 AND the Premiere Pro Beta, both kept up to date.

The issue is this: If Premiere Pro is running, any application or window that has the focus will lose it within a 1-2 seconds, max. If I quit PP, the problem goes away. It does not matter which other apps are currently running (or not). This only happens when PP is running.

When I start PP, the problem begins a short while before the application is done starting up. When I end it, the problem goes away as soon as PP is exited (the process is no longer visible in the task manager).

Functionality in PP is not impeded as such - I can do most things. However, once the window loses focus, any open menus will close etc., so it is extremely difficult to actually get anything done.

I will record a video of this happening and post it shortly.

The ONLY known way to stop PP from doing this is to reboot.

Latest version of the NVIDIA Studio driver is installed. OS and all apps kept up to date.

Control + Shift + / is not duplicating assets in the project panel and "Delete" is not removing assess from the project panel. Control + S also isn't working while in the project panel. (may be important to note: the project I'm working on is from the previous version of premiere pro. issue occurred after update this morning)

I also can't click and drag objects in the Project window (objects are currently in a bin and I'd like to drag them to a different bin)

Windows 10 Pro
Intel Core i7-6850k CUP @ 3.60GHz
32 GB Ram
MSI G1 GA-X99-Ultra Gaming Motherboard
GeForce GTX1080 Graphics Card
SSD Hard Drive
Premiere Pro 14.5.0 (Build 51)

Failed Fix Attempts:
Re-assigned keyboard shortcut in preferences
Restart of Premiere
Restart of desktop

I updated to 14.6 yesterday. I'm on a Windows 10, Intel i9, 56 GB ram, Nvidia 1080ti GPU computer. I have three 4k monitors hooked up to the Nvidia.

Several times when working with clips in the bin, and pressing the "delete" key on my keyboard, the program would crash. So much so that I downgraded to 14.3.2, which is the last stable version of the software that I could use.

I've also found that for the past year or so, my custom workspaces are not saved. When I start a new project, bins are combined. When I open old projects, things are out-of-whack sometimes, and I can't figure out a pattern to it. The "import workspaces from projects" option is always unchecked on my machine.

I should also note that I tried scene detection when first upgrading to 14.6 scene detection crashed the software as well. Upon reopening the same project, the index markers were in the long clip, and they were spot on.

Another issue I'm having with bins is that thumbnails are taking forever to load, and some thumbnails for .jpeg images do not load at all. When I double-click these images, they show up fine in the preview monitor.
(Unless they are CMYK, which is a different issue all together.)

Thank you for making projects backward-compatible. That is a lifesaver. It allows me to test out the new versions and go back if they do not work correctly on my machine.

There's no question about it: in terms of mouse scroll wheel functionality, After Effects is great and Premiere Pro falls flat!

Why not give some of AE's basic scroll wheel functionality to Pr? After all, aren't both programs made by the same company and meant to work hand in hand with each other?

Great scroll wheel functionality also exists inside Pr itself, but unfortunately, only in the Timeline.

The new Text window in Pr 15.1 Beta also adds something never seen before in Pr yet a long time feature of AE: the ability to click-hold the scroll wheel to temporarily invoke the hand tool. This is a GREAT feature! So why isn't it available everywhere in Pr that makes sense?

Please see the attached charts which compare scroll wheel functionality in Pr vs AE, and suggests how things could be improved in Pr.

As always, thanks for listening!

Something always baffles me.
Why is it I can render something (e.g. Render in to out) and my timeline indicates green. And the payback is fine. And the export is great (and fast). But the next day after I power-up and open the project my timeline is once again dappled with red & yellow sections?

Why does PP lose track of the renders?
In an Avid MC system once I render it, it’s done forever - unless I change a parameter or delete the media myself.
So I find the unprovoked disappearance of rendered files not annoy annoying but terrifying.
Sometimes I may want to screen something the next day and I’d like to assume all is well and ready to go for tomorrow.
Now I find myself showing up early just to re-render everything again.

(Before you ask, my cache is not set to delete in X days)

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Captions in Premiere Pro 13.1.2 have several problems.

(Windows10. May be different on Mac.). Here is a thread of all of the problems I've found in captions so far. While there are several threads already that point out individual issues, I'm hoping that bringing all of the issues together in a single mega thread will help get captions Adobe's prompt attention. Here we go!

1. NO BURN IN: Exporting a video through Media Encoder doesn't burn in captions even if the "Burn Captions Into Video" option is selected in Premiere Pro's Export Settings. The captions only get burned in if the video is exported directly through Premiere Pro.




2. DUPLICATES: If a captions file is duplicated in the project window, any changes done to the duplicate don't appear in the Program Monitor. In order to have changes appear, Premiere Pro needs to be restarted.




3. SELECT ALL: The Captions window is missing the standard CTRL-A keyboard shortcut to easily select all captions at once. This strange omission makes it unnecessarily difficult to select all the captions in a clip to make global appearance changes.




4. LEADING CONTROL: Captions need an easy way to control the space between lines, such as a Leading control that can work on individual captions, or all of the selected captions at once. (See illustration “Captions 1”) The current "Set Vertical Position (%)" option only works on a single caption at a time and requires the user to manually select the text in the second line. This takes far more time and effort than it should for something so simple.




5. DEFAULT LEADING: The default leading in captions is far too large and therefore ugly. The default leading between caption lines should be reduced to an aesthetically pleasing amount (See “Captions 2”)




6. KERNING CONTROL: The Captions window is also missing a way to control the spacing between characters in a caption. A Legacy Titler-style Kerning control is needed for Open captions.




7. MOTION SETTINGS: Copy/pasting the Motion settings of one captions clip to another in the Timeline does not work.




8. OFF-CENTER: By default, captions are off-center to the right by 5 pixels. When using captions in a narrow format video (1x1, 4x5, etc.) in which captions can stretch out to the edges of the frame, this error can become apparent. This incorrect centering can also become apparent in any sized video when captions line up with another title or graphic that’s centered on screen. (see “Captions 3”)




9. SPACING: If a two line caption is turned back into a single line, the space between the last character of the first line and the first character of the second line becomes incorrectly large. Even if characters are added or removed from the caption, the larger gap remains (see “Captions 4”)




10. MULTI-MOVING: It’s possible to select and even Shift-select multiple captions in a captions clip. So why isn’t it possible to do anything whatsoever with this selection? At the very least, Premiere Pro should let editors move a selection of captions up or down the captions clip for retiming purposes. Imagine having a video with 100 captions, only to have the client request that something be added or removed halfway into the video. This currently requires the editor to manually correct the timing of all captions beyond the change one by one… by one… by one… by one… This is sheer insanity and needs to be fixed ASAP!




11. BIGGER HANDLES: Captions and handles remain the same tiny size in the Timeline, no matter how much the video track is expanded. This makes it all too easy for users to accidentally move the captions clip itself when trying to retime a caption/handle. Captions and handles should grow accordingly when increasing the size of the video track they’re on. (see “Captions 5”)

Do you know of any captioning issues I missed? If so, please add them to the list!

Please vote and comment to help get Adobe’s attention on this matter!

In this day and age of Facebook/Instagram videos, open captioning has become a must. We need captioning tools that work properly asap!

Why Premiere Pro does not support .mkv files? This is the best video editing software, still it does not support .mkv files. Does it make sense from any angle?
And why would I convert and then import the clip? In general, the most popular formats of videos are .mkv and .mp4. But .mkv provides more quality than .mp4. So, why would I convert the format, where I am going to use the best video editing software in this world?
This problem is really too much bad for the reputation of Premiere Pro. Please, take needed steps and fix the issue that all including me can continue with Premiere Pro rather than shifting to DaVinci Resolve.