Video freezes after every cut in multicam editing – Premiere Pro 25.6.1.6 on Mac Studio M4

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. Hello Adobe Community, I am experiencing a persistent video playback issue in Premiere Pro 25.6.6 while working on a multicamera editing project. System configuration: Apple Mac Studio M4, Adobe Premiere Pro 25.6.1.6, Apple ProRes 422 LT, 1920 × 1080, 25 FPS, central SAN storage via Thunderbolt. During multicam editing, the video freezes after applying a cut in the timeline, while the audio continues playing normally. The video starts playing again when I disable and re-enable the video clip in the timeline. However, the same issue occurs again at the next cut. This problem occurs on multiple Mac systems with the same project. I also tested the footage by copying it to the Mac's internal SSD, but the issue persisted. Troubleshooting steps already tried: reduced playback resolution to half and quarter, cleared the Premiere Pro media cache, tested the footage on both SAN storage and the internal SSD, tested a new project, tried rendering the timeline using Render In to Out, checked the Mercury Playback Engine GPU Acceleration (Metal) setting, and tested disabling/re-enabling the video clips, but none of these steps resolved the issue. Questions: Is this a known issue with multicamera editing in Premiere Pro 25.6.1.6? Could this be related to multicam playback, frame decoding, or GPU acceleration? Are there any recommended settings or workarounds to prevent video freezing after cuts? Could this be a software bug in Premiere Pro? Iwas try 26.3.1 getting same issue

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Jonathan Editor

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Hi @sharp_wanderlust0046 ,

Welcome to the Premiere forums. Thank you for reporting this occurrence and providing details of this multicam issue you’re experiencing. For the team to try to better assist you, we’ll need some more information about the system environment.

Please confirm the MacOS currently installed. (e.g. Tahoe 26.6.2)
Please confirm that the footage specs and the sequence settings match?
- Are they different frame rates?
Is the sequence opened (or any clips) opened in the Source Monitor during the multicam editing and playback?
Was this transcoded footage?
- Does the issue persist if proxies were made?

The team suggests to try the following troubleshooting methods:

Try updating Premiere to version 26.5.2
- Related release notes: https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere/desktop/whats-new/release-notes.html
Please try flattening the multicam. (If the freezing stops on flattened clips, the multicam source sequence is the culprit.)
Are there any effects on the footage? If so please try disabling any effects including color correct to test if performance changes.
In case not done already, reset Premiere’s preferences (hold option on launch).

Sorry for the frustration! I hope we can help soon.

Best,

Jonathan

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Christopher33132705sxug

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I have attempted all of those options and nothing worked to resolve the prob. The issue is with new and old premiere timelines. The other option was to change the settings on the GPU, which it looks like adobe as disabled that option as it is greyed out or not present at all under general.

Do you have any other options?

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