• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Premiere CC 2017 – Playhead timeline delay when playing clips

  Posted by Sean Winn on August 15, 2017 at 3:49 pm

  Hi, just downloaded PPro CC 2017 a few days ago (upgrade from CS6). Operating on 27″ imac:
  – Running version 10.11.4
  – 2.9GHz Intel Core i5
  – 8gb ram
  – NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M 512mb.
  – Source footage on external 2 TB G-Drive 3.0 USB

  I’m working on a project, cut up interview has no visual effects, but crumplepop echo remover (removing this doesn’t solve anything), fill left on the audio clips.
  Every time the playhead is moved and spacebar is hit to play, there is a 4-5 second delay before the clip will play. Same thing with scrubbing – you can start, but there will be a delay before it kicks in. And again, everytime you click somewhere else in the timeline, you’re waiting all over again. It slows down the edit considerably.

  Wondering if if the cause of this issue is either the Processor, Ram, Drive, or perhaps video card.
  Thanks for any input.
  Sean

  Greg Janza replied 9 years ago 5 Members · 15 Replies
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  Shane Ross

  August 15, 2017 at 4:24 pm

  Source footage codec?

  Shane
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  Sean Winn

  August 15, 2017 at 5:00 pm

  Thank you Shane, all footage taken on Canon DSLRs – mov h264.

  Question – I’m continuing to experiment to find the problem and I started a new project from scratch in CC 2017 and recreated what I did to the initial interview clips (Audition hiss removal / Crumplepop echo remover) and so far no lag at all in the timeline. Then it occurred to me…

  This project was imported from CS6 into CC 2017 (converted). Could that be causing the issue I wonder?
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  Dan Powers

  August 15, 2017 at 5:01 pm

  Check my recent post about audio lag. It sounds similar
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  Dan Powers

  August 15, 2017 at 5:03 pm

  Try a test where you delete the audio from the timeline and try playing it again. I bet it is in the audio. Next test would be trying to remove the Audio Essential effects from all the clips…
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  David Roth weiss

  August 15, 2017 at 5:18 pm

  Check the minimum requirements for running Adobe CC, 8gb is the minimum, but 16gb is recommended. The reason 16gb is recommended is so you have system overhead… you have no overhead, especially when caching h.264 for playback.

  David Roth Weiss
  Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
  David Weiss Productions
  Los Angeles

  David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.
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  Dan Powers

  August 15, 2017 at 6:22 pm

  I am running with 64GB ram and was still getting a 5-10 sec lag on a large project with Audio Essential applied…
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  David Roth weiss

  August 15, 2017 at 9:52 pm

  That’s a non-sequitur Dan. Pointing out the exceptions to a rule, especially when the exceptions include variables having nothing/little to do with the OP, do nothing but waste bandwidth and confuse matters. If 8gb of RAM works so well why don’t you remove 56gb in your machine?

  David Roth Weiss
  Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
  David Weiss Productions
  Los Angeles

  David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.
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  Greg Janza

  August 15, 2017 at 9:57 pm

  sean, your system needs upgrading. Your graphics card isn’t supported and you’re lacking in RAM.

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  – Orson Welles
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  Sean Winn

  August 15, 2017 at 10:00 pm

  Thank you for the tips Dan, appreciated..
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  Sean Winn

  August 15, 2017 at 10:01 pm

  Thank you David for the information and time..

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