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Premiere Pro plugin · v1.1.0

Review inside Premiere Pro, not beside it

The PlayPause panel lives right inside your editing window. A client leaves a note, you click it, and your playhead jumps to the exact frame they meant. No second screen, no scrubbing, no guessing what "tighten the middle" means.

The direct PlayPause-Premiere-Panel-v1.1.0.zxp download goes live shortly. The three steps below have you set up the moment it does.

Click a comment in the panel and the playhead snaps to its timecode on your timeline.

What the panel actually does

Here is the honest version. Most review tools make you bounce between your editor and a browser tab. You read a timecode in one window, then go hunt for it in your sequence. Do that forty times in a review round and you have lost an afternoon to clicking around.

The PlayPause panel kills that loop. It opens inside Premiere Pro as a normal panel, docked wherever you like. Every comment your reviewers leave shows up in the panel, pinned to the exact frame it was left on. Click the comment and your Premiere playhead jumps straight to that timecode. You read the note and you are already parked on the frame it is about.

Versions, threads, and approvals come through too. When a client marks a cut approved, you see it in the panel without alt tabbing anywhere. The work stays in the one window where you actually do the work.

Install

Set it up in three steps

About three minutes, most of which is the one time installer setup.

1

Install the free ZXP/UXP Installer

One time setup. It is the standard tool for loading Adobe panels that do not come from the Marketplace. Download it from aescripts, install it like any normal app, and open it.

Get the ZXP installer
2

Drag PlayPause-Premiere-Panel-v1.1.0.zxp onto it

Drop the PlayPause panel file straight onto the installer window. It installs in a couple of seconds. No terminal, no config files, no admin gymnastics.

3

Restart Premiere and sign in

Fully restart Premiere Pro. Open Window then Extensions then PlayPause. Click Sign in, finish in your browser, and the panel is live inside your editing window.

Before you start

  • Premiere Pro 2021 or newer, on Windows or macOS.
  • A free PlayPause account. The panel works on every plan, including Free.
  • The free ZXP/UXP Installer (step one) and the PlayPause-Premiere-Panel-v1.1.0.zxp file.

Why editors keep the panel open all day

Speed is the whole point. The review cycle, not the editing, is usually the slow part of post production. The PlayPause panel takes the slowest bit of that cycle, finding the frame a note refers to, and makes it a single click. Multiply that across a project and you are shipping cuts with fewer rounds and fewer late nights.

It also keeps your context intact. Frame.io and the rest charge per seat, so every client and freelancer you invite raises your bill, and you still end up reading timecodes off a separate window. PlayPause is flat priced per workspace and the review happens inside Premiere itself. You invite everyone, you pay one price, and your editors never leave their timeline.

It is built for the people who live in Premiere all day: agency editors juggling client revisions, post houses running parallel projects, freelancers who want to look sharp when they share a cut, and in house teams shipping a steady stream of brand video. If your bottleneck is the back and forth, this is the fix.

FAQ

Premiere Pro panel, common questions

Which versions of Premiere Pro does the panel support?
Premiere Pro 2021 and newer on both Windows and macOS. The panel runs as a standard Adobe extension, so if your Premiere can open Window then Extensions, you are good. You also need a free PlayPause account to sign in.
Why do I need a separate ZXP installer?
The panel is distributed as a .zxp file, the standard format for Adobe extensions that are not in the Marketplace. The free ZXP/UXP Installer is the simplest, most reliable way to load it. It is a one time setup. After that, installing the panel takes about ten seconds.
What exactly does clicking a comment do?
It moves your Premiere playhead to the exact timecode that comment was left on. A reviewer pins a note at 00:01:14:08, you click it in the panel, and your sequence jumps straight there. No reading timecodes off a second screen, no manual scrubbing.
Is the panel free?
The panel itself is free to install and it works on every PlayPause plan, including the free plan. You sign in with the same account you use on the web. What you can do (seats, storage, projects) follows your plan.
The panel will not show up after install. What now?
Fully quit and reopen Premiere Pro (not just close the project). Then check Window then Extensions then PlayPause. If it is still missing, reinstall the .zxp with the ZXP installer and restart again. On managed machines, your IT may need to allow unsigned or third party extensions.

Put PlayPause inside your timeline

Create a free account, install the panel, and run your next review round without leaving Premiere.