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  • Preview Plays Back OK, But The Scopes Do Not

    Posted by Kevin Patrick on August 25, 2011 at 1:17 pm

    Hello, yet another ex-FCP user …

    I set the workspace to Adobe’s Color Correction. So I have the Program window and I have a window for the scopes. I set the scope to display a single scope.

    When I play back a clip none of the scopes play back in real time. The scope window only changes when I stop the playback. If I move the playhead around, the scope window updates. If I scrub the timeline, the scope windows does update as I scrub. But, whenever I play the timeline, the scope is static, displaying the frame where it started to play. Stop the playback and the scope updates to the frame I’ve stopped on.

    Is this how Premiere Pro works? Can I not watch any of the scopes in realtime? I was playing a clip, with no effects applied. None at all. Also, no other applications were running. Just Premiere Pro.

    My system:
    Premiere Pro CS5.5
    Mac Pro
    8 Cores: 2 x 4 3.2 GHz Xeon
    Lion 10.7.1
    24 GB RAM
    NVIDIA Quadro 4000 (CUDA driver 4.0.21)
    NVIDIA GT 120 (running second display, Not Main Display)
    Boot, Applicatons & User: 480 GB SSD
    Media: 3 TB 7.2K Hitachi
    Playback: 3 TB 7.2K Hitachi (different disk from Media)
    (I was not using my external RAID)

    Tom Daigon replied 14 years, 9 months ago 5 Members · 7 Replies
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  • Kevin Monahan

    August 25, 2011 at 8:05 pm

    Right, scopes do not playback in the reference monitor in color correction layout. The scopes do play in real time in the Program monitor, but you can’t see the clip you are adjusting that way. Please file a feature request for this: https://www.adobe.com/go/wish

    Kevin Monahan
    Sr. Content and Community Lead
    Adobe After Effects
    Adobe Premiere Pro
    Adobe Systems, Inc.
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  • Kevin Patrick

    August 25, 2011 at 9:27 pm

    Well that’s too bad. Kind of surprised that hasn’t come up as a required feature for those doing simple color correction with Premiere Pro.

    I followed your suggestion and submitted a feature request to Adobe.

  • Robert D’alexis

    August 26, 2011 at 1:27 am

    Kevin

    If you display the scopes in the programme monitor and use a second monitor to display the timeline then the scopes will update in real time.
    HTH

    Robert

  • Kevin Patrick

    August 26, 2011 at 11:20 am

    Thanks Robert. After Kevin Monahan pointed that out, I gave it a try. They do in fact play back in real time on the Program Monitor. However, the reference monitor functions the same way with the scopes, no real time play of the video. But, at least I have a solution to view the scopes in real time.

    Per Kevin suggestion, I submitted a feature request to Adobe.

    Dang. Only a couple of weeks into being a new PP user and I’m already asking for stuff.

  • Robert D’alexis

    August 26, 2011 at 12:36 pm

    It’s OK. PPro isn’t perfect but keeps getting better.

  • Todd Kopriva

    August 27, 2011 at 1:45 am

    > Only a couple of weeks into being a new PP user and I’m already asking for stuff.

    We like that.

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  • Tom Daigon

    August 27, 2011 at 2:00 am

    > Only a couple of weeks into being a new PP user and I’m already asking for stuff.

    We like that.

    Thats a relief! With all my requests since I switched I figured there was a dart board at Adobe Headquarters with my picture on it 😀

    Tom Daigon
    Avid DS / PrP / After Effects Editor
    http://www.hdshotsandcuts.com
    Mac Pro 3,1
    8 core
    10.6.8
    Nvidia Quadro 4000
    24 gigs ram
    Maxx Digita / Areca 8tb. raid

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