Tutorials

Edit Cycling Video in Premiere Pro

Work with Vectora overlays inside Adobe Premiere Pro.

Premiere Pro timeline with overlay track

This tutorial shows a simple workflow: create a Premiere Pro project, import your footage + Vectora overlay video, stack them in the timeline, sync, then export.

Placeholder: Premiere Pro start screen (where you create a new project).

1) Launch Premiere Pro: open Adobe Premiere Pro and choose “New Project”.

2) Create a project: set a project name + location, then click “Create”.

New Project dialog in Premiere Pro — New Project dialog (name + location).

3) Import your files: bring in (a) your main footage video and (b) your Vectora overlay video (downloaded from Vectora’s Tasks panel after rendering).

Tip: keep both files in the same folder so Premiere’s media relinking stays painless.

Import dialog with two videos — Placeholder: Importing footage + overlay files.

4) Create a sequence that matches your footage: drag your main footage onto the “New Item” icon (or right-click → “New Sequence From Clip”). This ensures resolution and FPS match your camera footage.

5) Add the footage to the timeline: put your main footage on V1 (Video Track 1).

6) Add the overlay above it: put the Vectora overlay clip on V2 (Video Track 2) directly above the footage.

Premiere timeline with overlay above footage — Placeholder: Timeline with footage on V1 and overlay on V2.

7) Make the overlay visible (depends on the overlay format):

- If the overlay video has transparency (alpha), it should composite automatically when placed on V2.

- If the overlay has a black background, select the overlay clip → Effect Controls → Opacity → Blend Mode, and try “Screen” or “Add” to remove black.

Effect Controls showing Opacity blend mode — Placeholder: Opacity blend mode (Screen/Add) to key out black backgrounds.

8) Sync the overlay with the footage:

- If your overlay includes a minimap, timestamp, or a distinctive event (stop/start, big turn, sprint), find the same moment in the footage and align the overlay clip so both match.

- Use timeline zoom + markers (M) to place a marker on the sync moment on both clips, then line them up. Sync clips with markers

- If the overlay is slightly early/late, nudge the overlay clip left/right by a few frames.

Related: Syncing Overlay with a Video

9) Fix drift (optional): if the overlay slowly drifts out of sync over time, it usually means the overlay duration doesn’t match the footage segment.

- Double-check you rendered the correct duration in Vectora (Sync panel Start/Duration).

- If needed, you can slightly time-stretch the overlay in Premiere (Speed/Duration) to match the footage.

10) Export: when it looks right, export your edit (File → Export → Media). Choose your preferred format (commonly H.264).