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Clip Frames Jump/Stutter After Adjusting Speed/Duration

Forum|Forum|4 months ago
October 1, 2025
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When adjusting the speed on a clip from 100% to anything higher, the clip playblack randomly jumps/skips frames while playing in the sequence timeline. When I export the sequence, the clips will play without the random frame jumps/skips. This seems to only happen when proxies are enabled. When I disable proxies, the clips play smoothly in the sequence timeline. This issue began around March of this year.

Computer & Software Info:

Premiere Pro 25.5.0 (Build 13)

Mac Studio Apple M4 Max

Memory: 48GB

MacOS Seqoia Version 15.4.1

Clip Info:

C0013.MP4 Type: MPEG Movie File Size: 896.15 MB Image Size: 3840 x 2160 Frame Rate: 29.97 Source Audio Format: 48000 Hz - 16-bit - Stereo Project Audio Format: 48000 Hz - 32 bit floating point - Stereo Total Duration: 00;00;48;00 Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1.0 Alpha: None Color Space: Rec. 709 Color Space Override: Off Input LUT: None Video Codec Type: MP4/MOV H.264 10 bit 4:2:2

Proxies/C0013_Proxy.mp4 Type: MPEG Movie File Size: 55.51 MB Image Size: 1920 x 1080 Frame Rate: 29.97 Source Audio Format: 48000 Hz - Compressed - Stereo Project Audio Format: 48000 Hz - 32 bit floating point - Stereo Total Duration: 00;00;48;00 Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1.0 Alpha: None Color Space: Rec. 709 Color Space Override: Off Input LUT: None Video Codec Type: MP4/MOV H.264 4:2:0

Editing and Playback

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Dani_V.

Community Manager

Thank you for sharing that video @johnson_6436, still trying to reproduce the issue on our end. Some additional follow-ups:

Do you see this happening without any adjustment layers or AE comps? (i.e. just the stand alone clips in a sequence) And do all clips have the same speed adjustment or do they vary by clip?

Can you check if you have 'High Quality Playback' selected and deselect if so? (Right-click Program monitor or click on the little wrench icon > High Quality Playback)

Can you also go to Settings > Audio Hardware > Default Input, and set to 'No Input' if something else is selected and try playback then?

Where is your media stored/located?

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johnson_6436Author

Participant

Noticed I left out the camera. It is a Sony FX3.

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johnson_6436Author

Participant

Yes I can share a screen recording of the jumping frames. The issue will happen with small and large projects. It is happening with ProRes QuickTime proxies, H.264 ProRes proxies and H.264 MP4 proxies. The only thing I've noticed is when I disable proxies it does not happen. I wondered if it's an issue of what file format we are filming in and then what file format we are creating proxies in. However, we recently started ProRes proxies and the jumping frames were an issue before starting ProRes proxies. I attatched a link to a Google Drive file of a screen recording of the jumping frames. Thank you for your help!

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rQIuLPep494KrkP6viN83JEolnUmACSH?usp=sharing

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Dani_V.

Community Manager

Hi @johnson_6436,

Welcome to the Premiere Pro forums and thank you for reporting a problem. Would you be able to share a screen recording of the jumps/frame skips?

Some follow-up questions:

Is this happening with all projects and all file types or only specific files (what is the camera or source)? How big is the project (is this noticeable with only a couple of clips or several)?

As a test, if you import one of the proxy files on its own and add a speed change to it, do you see this happening as well, or only when the proxies are directly attached to the source media?

And is this with a regular speed/duration change or are you using speed ramps? Any other effects applied?

Sorry for the frustration,
Dani

R Neil Haugen

Legend

I'm going to guess that if you used the ProRes proxies, this would not be an issue. Due to the massive computing difference between actual video frames in the file (ProRes) and bits and pieces of frames here & there that need putting together, in a string of 9-70 or more frames at a time, just to display the next frame on the screen.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

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