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  • Playback speed while editing?

    Posted by Michael Reedy on June 25, 2012 at 3:13 pm

    I have many hours of footage to go through and I have to watch all of it to add in elements at the correct time. When I was on Sony Vegas I had a tool that let me watch the composition at a high speed without actually changing the speed of the composition. Does Premiere Pro have this tool and if so how can I use it?

    Carlos Silva replied 9 years, 5 months ago 7 Members · 7 Replies
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  • Jon Barrie

    June 26, 2012 at 12:20 am

    You can use some shortcuts to playback faster than realtime without going so fast you can’t understand the dialog.

    Hit play, with either spacebar or L key to being playback.
    Hold Shift key down, tap L and keep tapping L until the playback speed is where you have optimal clarity and speed.

    (Recall how many times you tapped).

    If you go too far tap J to pull back a speed.

    You could go the other way which may be more efficient:
    Tap L twice to go into 2x speed. Which will most likely be too fast.
    Hold Shift and tap J a couple times to pull down the speed.

    Hope this helps.

    Cheers JB

    Jon Barrie
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  • Michael Reedy

    June 26, 2012 at 5:12 am

    That is EXACTLY what I was looking for! This will speed up the process for me a lot! Thank you fine sir!

  • Adrian Goleby

    February 4, 2014 at 3:38 am

    Thanks so much! this helped me out as well!

    Switching from Avid to Premiere is interesting haha.

  • Nicola Hammond

    June 8, 2014 at 12:04 pm

    Thank you SO much – I don’t know how people can edit in real time and why this information is so hidden in PP help and shortcuts. So a very big thank you!

  • Nizam Pasha

    August 30, 2014 at 9:59 am

    Thanks Jon Barrie..:)

  • John Shulters

    March 11, 2016 at 9:07 pm

    Hi Jon,

    Was doing some quick Googling to find out why Premiere was all of a sudden playing back my timeline at some wonky fast speed. I must have hit keys accidentally to bump it into a faster playback mode.

    I can use your tips with J/K/L to change the playback rate, but how do I just get it back to the default. All my Premiere projects are now playing at a choppy incorrect speed and no amount of J/K/L-ing gets it back to normal.

    Thanks so much for your help!
    John

  • Carlos Silva

    January 27, 2017 at 3:58 pm

    Hi. I just added a suggestion to address this issue in MAGIX Vegas PRO forum.

    “Speed up/down timeline playback rate preserving pitch”:
    https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/suggestion-speed-up-down-timeline-playback-rate-preserving-pitch–105358/

    If that suggestion (feature request) interest you, join the thread and provide further ideas and comments.

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