Premiere Won’t Play Anything in the Timeline

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Jordan,

After years of editing with Premiere, I had that happen recently and it turned out that the “loop” button was enabled under the Program Monitor window, but the loop point was like one frame, so it appeared to not play when I hit spacebar. If that’s not the issue, I don’t know then

Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor

[Jordan Montreuil]

Yeah, that’s not it. I thought that too but the amount of frames it tries to play is inconsistent and random.

[Jeff Brown]

A couple things to check:
Can you play any of the clips outside of Premiere? (like in MediaPlayer).
Have you checked your hard drives recently for fragmentation, errors, etc.?

-jeff

[Phocas Kroon]

Does the timeline play without connected camera?

Phocas Kroon

[Jordan Montreuil]

—A couple things to check:
Can you play any of the clips outside of Premiere? (like in MediaPlayer).
Have you checked your hard drives recently for fragmentation, errors, etc.?

Yes. They play okay outside of Premiere. And its a brand new computer that has barely been used.

–Does the timeline play without connected camera?

Nope. Not even color mattes or bars and tone.

[Mike Velte]

Try updating video card driver…Windows 7 is bad about installing generic VGA drivers.

[Michael Chia]

I have the same issue as well. Timeline won’t play or play just bits of it and stops on my imac. checked with my macbook pro. everything works fine… I don’t understand. Checked if SL was updated and it is. Uninstalled, reinstalled, reboot, everything. But timeline just does not play on my imac.

Any solutions?

Thanks

[Reto Troxler]

hey there, I’m running CS4 on a new Quad-Core 2 x 2.93GHz Mac (OSX 10.6.2) with 12GB of RAM and I’m having the same annoying problem! Clips won’t play in the timeline nor in the viewer-window, I can scrub through the clip though. Even with premiere captured dv-footage won’t play!

Now, I’m not logged in as an admin and I discovered that under my admin-account this problem does not occur but I don’t want do all the editing as an admin… So I’m guessing that this problem could be related to some owner-/ right-issues (when I created the second non-admin user, I somehow had to manually set all HD’s owner-rights for that account, otherwise I couldn’t even save anything on the Harddrives)!

I had that problem before and got rid of it by resetting premiere to it’s default settings (I think, can’t really remember how..) Does anybody know how to reset premiere on a mac?!

Any suggestions would be highly appreciated 😉
thanks. Reto

[John Nakauchi]

To solve this problem, I open an audio file, so it shows in the “source monitor”. Scrub the audio with the timeline indicator. Then try the play button again. It’s worked for me every time this happens to me.

[Lyon Richardson]

This is the problem I’m having. CS4 + Newish iMac + non-Admin account = Editing Frustration

please help!!