Adjustment Layer Starts Rendering Instead

artois

Description

When adding a New Adjustment Layer in Premiere Pro (Windows 11), instead of simply creating the layer and placing it in the project, Premiere starts rendering automatically. This unexpected behavior slows down the workflow and seems like a bug.

Expected Behavior

When adding an Adjustment Layer via New Item, it should simply appear in the Project Panel and on the timeline without triggering any rendering process.

Actual Behavior

Instead of adding the Adjustment Layer normally, Premiere starts rendering right away, even though no effects or changes have been applied yet.

Steps to Reproduce

When adding a New Adjustment Layer in Premiere Pro (Windows 11) using Excalibur, instead of simply creating the layer, Premiere starts rendering automatically. This unexpected behavior disrupts the workflow and seems like a bug.

Context

adding a New Adjustment Layer

Your Environment

Excalibur version: (1.2.8)
Premiere Pro version: (25.1.0 build 73)
Operating System: Windows 11

Sir_Ivan

How do you create adjustment layer?
through search bar or user command?
What keys do you press?

If you will use any other effect or command the same way, will Premiere start rendering?

artois

Sir_Ivan I use the search bar.
Shortcut keys to open the search are shift+z and than I use the mouse

Sir_Ivan

artois what language is your Premiere Pro?

artois

@"Sir_Ivan" English

Sir_Ivan

artois, please write me to support@knightsoftheeditingtable.com
I would like to have a screen share call if it is possible.

artois

@Sir_Ivan I removed the keyboard shortcut to test whether it was related to the issue, since this key combination (ALT+SHIFT+N) should not trigger rendering at all. The only shortcut I have for rendering is the default Enter key in Premiere. However, after removing the shortcut, the rendering issue stopped. But why does this even happen? This key combination shouldn't affect rendering, as I never assigned it to a render action—only to creating an Adjustment Layer.

That said, when I select Adjustment Layer from the search box, it overwrites the existing clip on the video layer instead of placing it on a layer above. The only way to prevent this is by disabling Track Targeting for Video 1, but is this the expected behavior? Or should Excalibur automatically place the Adjustment Layer on an empty track?

Sir_Ivan

artois Probably you got different keyboard profile after one of the Premiere updates (there were such cases in the past).

Default behaviour is to add item on the lowest targeted track:
https://manuscript.knightsoftheeditingtable.com/extensions/excalibur/commands/sequence#new-item
Overlay option doesn't exist yet, but there are feature requests for it and it will be implemented in the future.