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Getting started
Editbelt installs through Creative Cloud like any other Adobe plugin. There is nothing to unzip and no folder to find.
If you bought direct rather than through the marketplace, you will have a .ccx file instead. Double-click it — Creative Cloud opens and installs it the same way. There is nothing else to download first.
It works in Premiere Pro 2023 and later, on both Mac and Windows. One seat covers one machine; to move to a new computer, deactivate the old one first.
Getting started
The panel lives in Premiere’s own window menu, alongside every other panel.
Dock it wide
Editbelt is built to sit as a strip: a row of tabs, a row of tools, and a status line. Docked narrow it still works, but the tools wrap onto several lines and you lose the thing that makes it quick — every tool visible at once.
The status line along the bottom is worth getting used to. Every tool reports what it did there, and when a tool does nothing, that line says why.
Getting started
Your project needs one adjustment layer in it, once. After that every layer tool just works.
Premiere’s plugin API cannot create an adjustment layer, so Editbelt finds and reuses the one already in your project. Make it with File › New › Adjustment Layer, accept the defaults, and leave it in the bin. You never have to think about it again.
If you skip this, Add Adjustment Layer and Adjustment Layer on Cut will tell you so in the status line: “No adjustment layer in this project yet.”
Getting started
Four settings, set once. Every other tool reads them.
Arrange
Takes what you have selected in the Project panel and lays it onto the timeline end to end, each clip on its own track.
This is the multicam setup move: eight angles onto eight tracks, heads lined up, ready to synchronise. Turn Staircase off in Settings if you want them laid end to end on a single track instead.
The clips stay in your project. Editbelt places them on the timeline; it does not move them out of the bin.
Arrange
The other direction: takes clips already spread across several tracks and gathers them back down onto one.
Useful once a multicam edit is cut and you no longer need the angles stacked, or any time a section has crept up the track stack and you want it flat again.
Arrange
Marks the stretch of timeline you are working on, so the section stays obvious while you grade or mix it.
It is an ordinary Premiere marker, so it saves with the project and anyone opening it sees the same thing, whether or not they have Editbelt.
Build
Folds the clips you have selected on the timeline into one nested sequence.
The nest replaces the clips in place, at the same point on the timeline. It is an ordinary Premiere nest — you can open it, edit inside it, and it behaves the way any nest does.
Build
Puts every clip inside a nest back on the timeline where it belongs, then deletes the nest. Trims and effects come back intact.
Why this one exists
By hand this is: open the nest in its own tab, select everything, copy, come back, find the spot, paste, fix whatever the paste shifted, then delete the nest. Every step is a chance to lose a trim.
Make room above the nest first. If clips already sit on the tracks the contents need, the unnest has nowhere to put them and the status line will say so.
Build
Drops an adjustment layer over the clips you have selected, on the track above them.
Needs the one-time setup above: one adjustment layer in the project, which Editbelt reuses.
Build
Puts an empty adjustment layer exactly on the cut nearest your playhead — half on the outgoing clip, half on the incoming one — so a transition effect sits evenly across the join.
The Cut layer setting decides how long it is, in frames, split evenly across the cut.
If a clip already sits on the track above the cut, the layer will not push it aside. Clear the spot, or move up a track.
Build
Any effect Premiere has can become a button in your Build tab, on a key you choose.
Pressing it puts that effect on an adjustment layer over whatever you have selected.
Default settings only
The effect lands at its defaults. Premiere’s saved presets are not reachable by a plugin, so dial the effect in once on a layer and copy it from there when you want your own settings.
Your letter fires while the panel has focus. No panel can claim a key across the whole of Premiere, so your own shortcuts keep working everywhere else.
Curves
Eight named easing curves, applied straight to the keyframes on the clips you have selected. The shape drawn on each button is the motion you get.
Select the clips carrying the keyframes, then click a curve. The status line confirms which one landed.
Motion
Follow something in the shot, then either pin things to it or hold the shot still.
Tracking takes as long as the shot is long: it has to read every frame. The status line reports how many frames it got through.
Media
Move media from one project into the next without hunting down the files on disk.
It imports the same files from the same places on disk, so nothing is duplicated and nothing is copied twice.
Help
The status line at the bottom of the panel always says why. Read that first.
Help
Bugs, requests and “why does it do that” all go to the same place.
Write to support@editbelt.store. It is read by the person who wrote the code.
If you are reporting something broken, the status line text and what you had selected are the two things that make it fixable.
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