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CS6 Another Choppy playback Question.
Cant figure out how to fix this. I have been using premiere for a few days now. Spent about 5-6 hours editing. Closed my project for the night, opened it this morning and now my playback is choppy. I have been using it fine no problems before hand. No knew footage, No options change. No updates…Nothing… Playback smooth > Playback not smooth.
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Have you tried to render your sequence?
Sequence > Render Entire Work Area
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Have you tried restarting the computer?
Playback in Premiere needs a lot of RAM, and if you’ve been using other applications since your last reboot, you can expect choppiness. Especially flash content on websites (games in particular) are notorious for memory leaks, clogging up your RAM. Ideally applications clean up after themselves when you close them, but that’s not always the case.
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Hi David, are you using CS6 and if so what are your fractional resolution playback settings?
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Alright well, F@#$ my beard.
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David, we are all trying to help. If we are not providing answers that are not helping we probably do have enough information about your specific issue to do so. I realize that you are new (as a lot of folks are here) to PrPro so if we give an answer that is not understood please be forthright and ask the poster what they mean. It will only lead to a better understanding of the tools you are using and leave you a lot less frustrated.
Some useful information to know would be your system specs, format of your footage, timeline format ect.
YOu should also look at this book, as it is one of the best resources available on the software as well as go through some of the tutorials here on the COW. https://www.peachpit.com/store/editors-guide-to-adobe-premiere-pro-9780321840066
“Think of everything in terms of building capacity.”
Kris Merkel
twitter: @kris_merkel
Product Manager, Flanders Scientific Inc.
http://www.shopfsi.com
Co-Founder, Atlanta Cutters Post Production User Group
http://www.atlantacutters.com2.2Ghz MBP core i7
16Gb RAM
CS6/FCP7
AJA T-Tap
AJA IO XT
FSI LM-2461W/CM-170W
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Other possible fixes are:
1. Delete Media Cache files from the Media Cache folder when PrP is closed.
2. Same for Preview files.
3. It doenst hurt to delete Preferences as well.
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Im with you David… I’m at a loss…
I cannot believe how bad the playback is in Premiere Pro CC, and, how little help there is out there. Raw MOVs from a 5D plays back like garbage on my laptop OR 8 core Mac Pro. Its ridiculous. I’m better off transcoding to ProRes and using FCP which works, or God forbid, go back to using Avid like its 1999. Unfortunately It has nothing to do with the two graphic cards or 32 gigs of memory I have either, it just plays back like garbage. Using the JKL keys is completely awkward because the lag between hitting the key and playback is excruciating. I’m at 1/2 resolution and it cant play back footage without being choppy. no FX, and the footage and hardrive is on a 6g SSD. This should be screaming.
I love how “render your sequence” is a valid solution. Another valid solution is “use a program that works”.
Adobe, seriously, live up to your other products standards, they are so good, why does this one just bomb?
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David!
Man I’m on that same page, Canon 5D footage, updated the CUDA driver, just bought CC last week, coming from cs6, thinking this new one was going to solve all my problems…. Same crappy thing, still choppy, don’t know when it’s going to happen again and can’t work with a client or my partner by my side, because it looks un professional.
Actually had to export an XML and continued on fcp7. And Im completely astonished how fcp has performed without any video problems, just some clipping on the audio, but no lagging on video, even with all the FX added.
What shall I do????….. HELP guys!Thanks
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I had this issue whilst playing back prores files. It was my first project on a new machine and the problem was my sequence settings.
Right click your sequence in the project browser, then chose sequence settings.
Set your video previews settings to a suitable codec. I have mine set up as Quicktime (desktop) for the file format.
The problem with mine was the codec was set to AJA 10 bit RGB so I changed it to prores and now it works fine. You have to re-render your media though.
Regarding the raw 5D files, I’m not surprised. 5Ds (all Cannon SLRs) shoot in H.264 and the only NLE that I know of that can cope with H.264 playback is FCPX. Of course, that is a pretty horrid editing system! The general work flow for SLR shoots has always been, and to my mind still is, compress your rushes to Pro-res 422 (mac/quicktime users) before you do anything. It is the drawback of using a photographic camera.
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Well, thank you for your interest Ed, but i tried all the different settings, even changing frame rate on some shots. The problem then persisted on CC, but after a few attempts, the problem was gone. NOW!!! It has shifted to something very different. The audio is muting!!!!!! It doesnt play all the way through. It cuts off all the time and always on different moments. It doesnt matter if it is a long or a short video. It is really annoying for editing my music vidroclips and the last reel I was trying to do, cutting on some beats!!
Sometimes it leaves me the audio from the camera and/or mics and cuts off the music or viceversa.
Even with the new update from adobe the problem is still there.
So i dont know where is this going!
Thanks for your time.
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