• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Choppy video in preview

  Posted by Curtiss Bryant on May 18, 2009 at 7:14 pm

  I am trying to edit some HD video, but cannot get a clear playback in Premiere. The audio works fine, but the video is choppy. I can play the videos fine in VLC with no problems.

  Is there a setting I am missing to make the preview run smoothly?

  My computer resources are:
  Quad Core processor
  6gb Ram
  Vista 64
  Nvidia Geforce 9400 Gt 1gb graphics card
  500 gb HD (15gb free)

  I am pretty sure I have the resources to view/edit the video, so I am not sure what is wrong.. Thanks

  Lucas Windsor replied 16 years, 12 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Ann Bens

  May 18, 2009 at 9:02 pm

  Is it still choppy in automatic quality preview?
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  Lucas Windsor

  May 19, 2009 at 5:39 am

  Your resources seem to be okay, the only issue is that you are using Vista, which in my experience is a horrible system to edit HD video on. Unfortunately in order to get enough RAM you have to use it.

  Do also note that Premiere has to log HD video once you import it, which may take a few minutes, even for a short clip. If you are trying to preview it right after you open it you may have to wait.

  Try this. Open your project and drag the timeline slider to the middle. Walk away for 15 minutes and come back. Play with the slider and then see if it will play without lag. If it still doesn’t play then you have something hogging your resources, which is vista’s nature.

  These issues are why I switched to Mac!

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