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Chris29649401i1oz
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December 6, 2023
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Choppy Playback With Even BASIC Projects

  • December 6, 2023
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I have been using adobe for a couple years now on an older rig. I've always had pretty choppy playback in the sequence with my 2.7k or 4k gopro footage, especially if I add text on top or adjust the colors with luts or lumitri. I tried for a long time to troubleshoot the problem and would find others with the same issue as me, and the vets on this forum would chime in and suggest some sort of hardware bottleneck. I always assumed it was my computer. WEll I recently upgraded my computer, same issues with playback. So I threw in the towel, upgraded again, and bought a top of the line 24 core i9 processor rtx 4070ti, 96gb ddr5 ram, fresh windows 11 install, and even with all that I STILL get choppy playback using adobe. I'm starting to think it's just a crap program. I've got no issues with Resolve.... I've got GPU hardware acceleration turned on, have over 80gb of ram allocated to premiere pro, and it still can't give smooth playback? How does anyone use this program? Is there something obvious I'm missing here? Do I really have to make proxies for every video file, even for simple edits? 

I've got the latest version of adobe , windows 11 with all updates, very new upper end computer. If I open adobe, import a video, change the color saturation to 170, and attempt playback, it's choppy and looks horrible. I get one frame every few seconds and there is a red bar near the playhead in the sequence. 

 

I'm ready for an expert to chime in here. If I can't get smooth playback with this setup then it is 100% a problem with Adobe Premiere Pro. I can finally, confidently say, its NOT my computer anymore. It's either a setting in premiere pro, or the program can not function as it was designed to. 

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    R Neil Haugen
    R Neil Haugen
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    December 6, 2023

    For data, I've got a 32 core 3960x Ryzen, 128GB of RAM with a 2080Ti, system on one Nvme and all cache files on another. Media and projects and Production on other internal SSDs.

     

    It's flying with BRAW, occasional Red, some various Sony and Panny, mostly log or mov though some long-GOP mp4.

     

    I do heavy Lumetri work. Multicam with 2-3 cameras, over a track or two of other cameras or screen monitor apps, a track or two of graphics. 2-5 tracks total visual. Up to 5 or 6 audio tracks.

     

    My four year old Acer Triton laptop, with that anemic "2080" lappie GPU, is actually playing Premiere quite well. Surprising me.

     

    I also do a fair amount of Resolve on the desktop, as I work for/with/teach pro colorists.

     

    I removed Resolve from the laptop as it was such a dog on it.

     

    So with that media, which is all long-GOP, which specific CPU did you get? Some Intel CPUs have that Quicksync hardware, for long-GOP media. Some don't. Give the CPU full number and we'll know.

     

     

    Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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    Chris29649401i1ozAuthor
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    December 6, 2023

    I'm assuming that you're saying Adobe plays back fine on those devices you listed? Or... just listing your computer? 

    I forgot to mention I'm on Samsung 990pro 4tb , with in 13900k processor. 

    R Neil Haugen
    R Neil Haugen
    Legend
    December 6, 2023

    I listed my computer specs, including the media and workflow, and said it's flying. Seems pretty clear. 

     

    In troubleshooting, comparing data bits is pretty basic. It's how you figure out what bits cause or are related to any odd behaviors. Checking who's systems exhibit a behavior, who's systems work great is basic.

     

    On your system,. you've got QuickSync in that CPU, so that's good for the H.264/5, and at 24 pretty decent speed cores, a solid chip.

     

    If you work with an intraframe codec like ProRes how does it go? I'm trying to sort out if it's only the long-GOP stuff Premiere is struggling with.

     

    And of course, do you have the Premiere Preferences settings for hardware encoding and decoding of H.264 set on?

    Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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