Adobe Premiere CS4 zoom bar above timeline flickers…

[Lloyd Coleman]

I don’t have an answer for you, but I upgraded to Windows 7 with an i7 processor and now my zoom bar flickers also. I hope someone can give us a way to fix this.

[Daniel Hoover]

I have an i7 860 with 4 GB RAM, Windows 7 64 bit, and CS4 student edition and I noticed the same thing. It’s really bugging me.

However, I have noticed that the zoom bar doesn’t flicker as much/at all if you zoom all the way out, but the timeline cursor’s blue triangle head still goes crazy.

Anyone have any ideas on how to remove the flickering zoom bar when playing the timeline?

[Natasa Pantic]

I think it has something to do with display drivers.

I encountered the same problem after upgrading to win7 x64, with Q6600 CPU and Nvidia 8800GT.

Since Nvidia doesn’t have 64-bit support for the GPU, I researched a bit and found CUDA drivers, which solved the GPU instability problem.

The flicker didn’t go away with CUDA drivers. However, while I was installing and uninstalling different drivers, to find the best one to work with, I discovered that when the system runs without ANY display driver there’s no zoom bar flicker in CS4. The playback is sluggish and it’s of course impossible to work in it, but zoom bar doesn’t flicker. Thus, I believe the flicker comes from the not yet appropriate display driver support for 64bit OS.

So, if I’m guessing well, we’ll all have to wait for our GPU manufacturers to come out with the appropriate 64-bit drivers for our cards.

I’ll keep you posted on the issue and please you do the same.

Natasa

[Arlen Showstack]

Hello Natasa and others,

Thanks for all your input. Needless to say it’s very frustrating for all of us. It’s very distracting to see the zoom bar flicker as the timeline plays. Hopefully we’ll hear some sort of solution soon, whether it be in updating a new driver or some adobe update fix. In any case, if I hear anything, I’ll keep you all posted. Should you hear anything, please let me know as well.

Thanks,

Arlen

Arlen

[Mike Zidel]

Hi all i had flicker problem only when Monitor chaged. i am running Core i7 ITA 4800 graphics card, monitor is standatrd fujitsu siemens 20″ (4312 FA) zoom bar and rest of screen very stable wanted to upgrade to 16×9 HD screen looked @ three brands all zoom bar flicker i think its the i7 is to fast for premiere
hope this is soved as need 24.6 urgent.
mike

[Mike Zidel]

saw this salution on other thread havent tested yet
Hello,

I have experienced this problem and solved it by turning off the Windows 7 Aero interface.

Appearance and Personalization>Change Theme>Windows Classic

Once this was completed the grey zoom bar was solid and flicker free.

Ray

[Natasa Pantic]

Mike,

thanks for the tip. It did help. A little update: it helps if you just turn off Aero, not return to WinClassic theme. Win7 Basic will do away with the flicker too.

You only have to restart Premiere for anything to happen. (At least that was the case with me).

Best,
Natasa