CS3 choppy playback in preview

Adobe Premiere Pro

CS3 choppy playback in preview

Posted by David Jackson on January 17, 2008 at 5:05 am

Hi all, I’m having a bizarre problem with PPro CS3 that I didn’t have in CS2. Playback in the preview window is jittery, jumping around a few frames back and forth along the timeline.

Audio plays fine while the video jumps around, and the video actually seems to keep up overall. Exporting works as well, so this is effectively just a nuisance, but it makes finer work nearly impossible.

I’ve tried to preview on high/draft/automatic quality, and have a machine that should have no problem handling the footage. I’ve seen a few other people in my googling that likely have this problem, but haven’t found a solution.

Dual 3.6Ghz Xeon
3GB RAM
ATI FireGL v7350 1GB
160GB System Drive
1TB RAID0 video/scratch disk

The video source doesn’t seem to matter, either. It can be jittery right out of the HDV camera, or an AVI already on the computer. It’s equal-opportunity chop.

Thanks for any suggestions you might have!

Kyle Reynolds replied 16 years, 1 month ago 7 Members · 9 Replies
9 Replies

Randy Mcwilson
January 17, 2008 at 5:45 am

Here are a couple of suggestions:

(1) unplug your firewire cable after you finish capturing. This can free up resources that bottleneck output.

(2) move your composer window to your PRIMARY monitor (if you have dual monitors)

hope this helps!

Eternity…don’t miss it for the world.
David Jackson
January 17, 2008 at 6:26 am

Thanks for the suggestions. I unplugged the firewire and docked the preview window on the primary screen, but to no avail.

EDIT: Yanking out ATI Catalyst and reinstalling *just* the display drivers seems to have fixed the problem. Fingers are crossed.
David Jackson
January 20, 2008 at 4:39 am

…nevermind. It didn’t fix it at all. I’m really wondering if I’m going to have to reinstall Windows at this point.
Dave Gruchy
October 20, 2008 at 4:15 pm

Hey,
Did you ever solve this problem? I’m having this issue too, and can’t find a fix anywhere. (Or anyone with the same problem but you.) It’s driving me nuts!
-Dave G.
La Ronge, Saskatchewan
Dave Gruchy
October 20, 2008 at 4:16 pm

Hey,
Did you ever solve this problem? I’m having this issue too, and can’t find a fix anywhere. (Or anyone with the same problem but you.) It’s driving me nuts!
-Dave G.
La Ronge, Saskatchewan
Ilay Kimsey
December 18, 2008 at 9:15 pm

hey, i was having the same problems just as you!

video plays choppy on premiere cs3, otherwise all is well.

nothing seems to work when trying to fix this, i’ve tried switching video cards, drivers, and windows xp versions.

when i install premiere pro 2.0 it works just fine, but why should i use it if i’ve got cs3 master suite….damn…

any thoughts?!

thanks
ilay
Steve Johnson
January 30, 2009 at 4:53 pm

I am also having this choppy playback problem in CS4.

Help.
Simon Davis
February 8, 2009 at 9:41 pm

Hello,
I’ve had this in CS4 too with full HD video. I read another post for CS2 somewhere, where overclocking was mentioned. If I turn off the overclocking of my CPU, I get an improvement in playback.
Kyle Reynolds
April 7, 2010 at 8:55 am

I am also having this problem, however I am not using windows

If anyone suspects its a hardware issue let me give you my specs

Apple Mac
12gb RAM
2 x 512mb DDR 3 Geforce Graphics cards
4TB Hdd Space.

I really dont understand why premier is so choppy, I am having serious issues trying to syncronise audio and video as premier does not let me preview very accurately.

I was using uncompressed footage from the Canon 5d mark ii, at 30 fps interpreted at 25 fps, and scaled to 1024 x 576. Even after interpreting the footage to 25fps, it would still not sync to the audio recording which was recorded at 25 fps, so i still had to speed the footage up by 120 %.

Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up

Creative Communities of the World Forums