[Jeff Pulera]

Buying a Core i5 processor for video editing would be money ill-spent. You absolutely want a minimum of a Core i7 for video work and would regret saving a few bucks for anything less. Memory, graphics, storage are all things that can be upgraded at a later date if desired, but if you skimp on the heart of the system, nothing else matters and you are stuck with it since not easily upgradeable.

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Hi Matt,

This doesn’t make sense. Ever notice when you Import new clips into Premiere that at bottom right of screen it says “Conforming…” ? Premiere actually converts all audio to its own format and create temporary audio files and that is what it plays then, not the original.

I’m on this forum and the Adobe forums every day and don’t recall anyone ever saying that the audio won’t keep up. Video is much tougher to play back and that is the common complaint with 4K and such. There is something wrong in your system.

How full is the system drive? That is where the “Media Cache” files are written by default, unless you have directed them elsewhere in Preferences. Are you using a dedicated hard drive for the video assets or is everything on the system drive? Please let us know more about your hardware – PC or Mac, processor, RAM, storage, etc.

As a temporary work-around, try this – do an EXPORT of the entire timeline as just audio, for instance .wav on the PC (dunno what Mac is using these days). Import that new audio file and drop on new audio track and then MUTE the original audio track. How does this new soundtrack play?

I’ve done the above before for various workflow reasons, but never because audio would not play. Was just to simplify complex multi-layered audio into a single track.

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Hi Neil,

Cell phone video is often Variable Frame Rate. Many users resolve this issue by converting the clip using the free Handbrake application. Make sure the Output is set to Constant Frame Rate of 29.97 and edit the resulting .mp4 in Premiere then.

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Hi Philippe,

I often use the exact effect you are talking about. I wonder if perhaps the audio track in your Sequence is actually a MONO track and not a stereo track and that is why Premiere won’t let you use the FILL effect?

Can you see L and R tracks in the audio?

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Jeff

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What I’ve done in the past is to create the New Sequence with desired settings, then go back to original timeline and do SELECT ALL and COPY to get all contents, then jump back to new timeline and PASTE. Never mess with Nesting business, maybe I should learn more about that.

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[Jeff Pulera]

USB 2.0 is far too slow for anything to do with video editing, definitely requires USB 3.0 or better (USB-C or any Thunderbolt).

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Hi John,

Totally agree that one can do slight zooms of 105-110% and looks just fine typically, but OP was talking about 200% blow ups

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[Jeff Pulera]

You would need to edit in the 1080p sequence in order to punch-in and retain quality from 4K source. If you blow-up the 4K footage in a 4K sequence, you lose that quality no matter what you export as – 4K, HD, SD.

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You’re welcome. And once you get comfortable with the basics, you can take it further. For instance, apply Color Correction to the V1 (background) image, and via keyframes, make the background get darker when the foreground text zooms in, to make it stand out from background.

Or same thing using BLUR effect, keyframe to soften background on cue to make selected text stand out. Lots of fun things to do.

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Hi Jennifer,

Put the image of the letter onto V1 track. Put another copy directly above on V2. Mute the V1 track (click the eyeball thingy) to hide image. Apply CROP effect to V2 clip and crop the 4 sides down so you only have left the desired section of text. Background will appear black around cropped text.

Turn V1 on again so you see entire letter. Since V1 and V2 show the exact same source, should not notice the crop of V2 which is actually floating above the V1 image as its own layer. Now use the MOTION effect to SCALE the V2 image.

Use keyframes to make the text expand when you want, to the size you want, at the speed you want. Do a web search of “keyframing in Premiere” for tutorials. Start here – https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/motion-position-scale-rotate-clip.html

Simple stuff like this does not require AE, you can do quite a bit in Premiere

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Jeff

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