Play/pause dysfunctional

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July 12, 2018
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Whenever play/spacebar is pressed, the program automatically pauses itself again, which makes reviewing clips on the timeline extremely difficult and frustrating. It is acting as though there are constant interruptions, however the problem persists even if Premiere runs independently. Disconnecting from the network, restarting Premiere, and restarting the computer has been ineffective. Running on Windows 10.

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JayDracoAuthor

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Thanks for the suggestions, all. Unfortunately I still cannot seem to fix the issue. I dont have any competing antivirus programs Peru Bob, and moving the playhead williebegoode, unplugging it from the power, or disconnecting from the wifi X72513 has been ineffective. Sometimes it'll function spontaneously, but will inevitably go back to its ways after a couple hours or if left idle.

I understand that Premeire is programmed to pause when there is an interruption, so I am wondering if there is any way to just disable that function altogether so I can get on with my project? Thank you

williebegoode

Participating Frequently

JayDraco,

Try this: when you play/pause, wait about 5 beats, then move the playhead left and right. That worked for me. I found that if I edit in a transition and click play, the play seems to lock up; so I just do a slide-slide with the playhead and then everything works. I believe that PRE is still working to get everything in order after the transition insertion.

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Steve Grisetti

Legend

There's certainly nothing obvious in your specs. But is your video driver really nearly a year old and no updates are available from the nVidia site?

Very strange that you're having exactly the same problem with two versions of the program.

Meantime, am I just not seeing it? How much free space is on your C drive?

And I'm not sure the value of using an external drive for your scratch disk. If you've got an SSD for your hard drive, its response should be pretty immediate. You're not likely to get a boost from using an external drive for your scratch disk. It might be the bottleneck, in fact.

Unless you're trying to compensate for a lack of free space on your C drive -- which could also be the bottleneck.

Assuming you've got 60-100 gig of free space on your C drive, try just setting your scratch disk to it.

X72513

Participating Frequently

Hey Steve,

Well, I've done a bit of experimentation with both computers and Premiere Elements 2018 and I've come up with this interesting turn of events.

After unplugging everything but the power, I worked the program and it worked. I put the wireless mouse, keyboard, external drive,
and it kept working, until I connected the computer to the internet. Just plugging the cable in and PE2018 pauses, and will not continue to play. Today, I tried to work on it connecting by wireless to the internet and it is working. My friend I am at a loss.

Do you have any thoughts?