Can I share Premiere Pro presets with other users?

March 14, 2026 · caitlin

Yes, you can absolutely share Premiere Pro presets with other users. This is a fantastic way to collaborate, streamline workflows, and leverage the creative work of others. Sharing presets allows you to distribute custom color grades, audio effects, or transition packs to colleagues or friends.

Sharing Your Premiere Pro Presets: A Comprehensive Guide

Adobe Premiere Pro is a powerful video editing software. It allows users to create custom presets for various effects, including color correction, audio mixing, and transitions. These presets can save a significant amount of time and ensure consistency across projects. The good news is that sharing these valuable presets is straightforward.

What Are Premiere Pro Presets and Why Share Them?

Premiere Pro presets are essentially saved settings for effects or combinations of effects. Think of them as custom templates for your editing. Instead of manually adjusting sliders and parameters every time, you can apply a preset with a single click.

Sharing these presets offers several key benefits:

Collaboration: Easily share your unique looks or audio treatments with team members. This ensures everyone is working with the same stylistic elements.
Efficiency: Distribute pre-made solutions for common editing tasks. This saves everyone valuable production time.
Learning: Explore presets shared by other editors to understand their techniques and learn new approaches.
Consistency: Maintain a consistent visual or auditory style across multiple projects or within a larger production.

How to Export and Share Your Premiere Pro Presets

Exporting your custom presets from Premiere Pro is a simple process. Once exported, you can share them via email, cloud storage, or a shared drive.

Exporting Color Grading Presets (Lumetri Color Presets)

Lumetri Color is where most color grading happens. When you create a look you love, you can save it as a preset.

Open your project and select the clip with the Lumetri Color effect applied.
In the Effect Controls panel, locate the Lumetri Color effect.
Click the three lines (hamburger menu) next to Lumetri Color.
Select "Save Preset…".
Give your preset a descriptive name.
Choose a location to save the .prfpset file.

Exporting Audio Effect Presets

Similarly, you can save custom audio effects.

Apply your desired audio effects to a clip.
In the Effect Controls panel, find the audio effects stack.
Click the three lines next to the audio effects section.
Select "Save Preset…".
Name your audio preset and choose a save location.

Exporting Transition Presets

While Premiere Pro doesn’t have a direct "Save Transition Preset" button in the same way as Lumetri, you can achieve this by saving custom motion graphics templates (MOGRTs) or by creating a sequence with your desired transition and exporting the effect.

A more common method for sharing custom transitions involves creating them within After Effects and exporting them as MOGRTs, which can then be shared and used in Premiere Pro.

Where Do Premiere Pro Presets Get Saved?

Understanding where Premiere Pro stores these presets can be helpful for manual backup or sharing.

Lumetri Color Presets: These are typically saved in a user-specific folder. The exact location can vary slightly by operating system, but it’s often found within your user directory under Documents\Adobe\Premiere Pro\[Version Number]\Lumetri\LUTs\Creative.
Audio Presets: Similar to Lumetri, audio presets are stored in a dedicated folder within your Adobe Premiere Pro application data.

How to Import and Use Shared Presets

Once you receive a preset file (usually a .prfpset for Lumetri), importing it is just as easy as exporting.

Importing Lumetri Color Presets

Open Premiere Pro.
Go to the Effects panel.
Navigate to Video Effects > Color Correction > Lumetri Color.
Right-click within the Lumetri Color presets list.
Select "Import Preset…".
Browse to the location where you saved the .prfpset file and select it.
Your new preset will appear in the list, ready to be applied.

Importing Audio Presets

Open Premiere Pro.
Go to the Effects panel.
Navigate to Audio Effects.
Right-click within the audio effects list.
Select "Import Preset…".
Choose your saved audio preset file.
The preset will be added to your audio effects library.

Practical Examples of Preset Sharing

Imagine you’re working on a series of social media videos. You’ve developed a unique cinematic color grade that perfectly matches your brand’s aesthetic. Instead of re-creating it for each video, you save it as a Lumetri preset. You then share this preset with your social media manager, who can quickly apply it to all new footage, ensuring brand consistency.

Another scenario involves a podcast editor. They might create a custom audio preset that cleans up background noise, balances voices, and adds a touch of compression. Sharing this audio mixing preset with other podcast producers in their network can significantly improve the quality and efficiency of their work.

Comparing Preset Management Tools

While Premiere Pro’s built-in import/export is effective, some users opt for more advanced solutions for managing large libraries of presets.

Feature	Premiere Pro Built-in	Third-Party Plugin/Manager
Ease of Use	Simple, intuitive	Can have a learning curve
Organization	Basic folder structure	Advanced tagging, search
Sharing Capability	Manual file sharing	Direct sharing, cloud sync
Cost	Free (included)	Varies (free to paid)
Scalability	Limited	High

For most users, the native Premiere Pro preset functionality is more than sufficient. However, if you deal with hundreds or thousands of presets, exploring dedicated preset management tools might be beneficial.