Frustrating bug in Premiere cc

[Mike Smith]

I haven’t quite got that. You want to render SO THAT you can play on the timeline, but you are frustrated that it JUST PLAYS on the timeline … don’t qutie see the bug there.

[Andrew Kimery]

What color is the ‘render bar’ above the clips you are trying to render (yellow or red)?

In my experience if I select a clip (or clips) that are yellow and I hit “Render Selection” it will not render but just start playing the clips. I took this to me that the Premiere is capable of playing back the clips in real time thus there is no need to render.

If I want to force it to render I put In/Out markers around the clips I want to render and hit “Render In to Out” and it will render everything between my In/Out markers regardless of render bar color.

[Ingólfur Arnar]

The line above is yellow but it’s 4K and I’m editing on a MacBook pro so it play’s very badly unless I render. Doesn’t really play, too much lagging.

I can render if I choose in and out points. But not if I choose to render selection. So if it’s not a but I think Adome should change this. If I choose render I want my software to do what I ask it to do :p

[Ann Bens]

If you want a yellow line to play without lagging turn down playback to 1/2 or select in and out and hit Render In To Out.
Render selection only works on a red line.
https://blogs.adobe.com/premiereprotraining/2011/02/red-yellow-and-green-render-bars.html

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[Paul Neumann]

If it’s 4K and you’re on a MBP turn your resolution down to 1/4 or 1/8. It’ll still work fine.

[David Moore]

This is still happening in Dec 2019.

The responses to your post almost as frustrating as the issue. You want to watch your timeline in full quality, which requires a render, and the “render selection” doesn’t do that, and the response to this bug it to watch your timeline in 1/4 quality….

What makes this even more pleasing in 2019, is that there’s no “render in to out”. So the only way to render that small part of the sequence you want to check and work on right now, is to render the entire sequence, which can take hours!

[Jon Doughtie]

I think what they’re saying is you are asking a Volkswagen Beetle to pull a tractor trailer. You want more than your hardware can deliver, given your footage (4K) and your viewing preference (full resolution).

System:
Dell Precision T7600 (x2)
Win 7 64-bit
32GB RAM
Adobe CC 2017.1 (as of 8/2017)
256GB SSD system drive
4 internal media drives RAID 5
Typically cutting short form from UHD MP4, HD MP4, and HD P2 MXF.

[David Moore]

I have a 4k screen, and a computer with a high spec for a PC.
I understand that for scrubbing etc, you need to use lower res, or proxies ideally.

However, I CAN render the entire thing, and watch it in full resolution.
Just I CANNOT ask it render “just that bit there, where I want to check the transitions”

There is no render selection, there is no render in to out anymore.

Therefore you have to wait perhaps 3 hours, for a full render, just to check one small part.

Your analogy doesn’t hold up at all, it’s nothing to do with hardware. It’s more like saying I want my Landrover Defender to pull a trailer, however it’s only possible if I agree to let it warm up for a couple of months each time… and I am driving daily.

Adobe should make render selection do what it says on the tin, and at least bring back render in to out.

[Matthew Ross]

[David Moore] “[…]there is no render in to out anymore.
[…]at least bring back render in to out.”

Wait, I feel like I’m missing something. I can still do “render in to out” just fine (this is in Premiere 14.0 on a PC). This was a 4K clip (marked as yellow); I marked an in and out in the sequence, went to Sequence->Render In to Out and it did exactly as expected (it didn’t just play back—the render progress bar came up while it did its thing). Resulting section of the sequence is now marked with green.

[David Moore]

Maybe I am really missing something, but this is what I have….