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wocelz
Participant
January 29, 2026
Question

Delay when pausing playback on Captions and Graphics Workspace

  • January 29, 2026
  • 2 replies
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Greetings,

 

When editing the captions of a simple sequence and hitting spacebar to start playback, hitting spacebar again presents a significant and annoying delay to stop playback. Clicking over the timeline to reposition the playhead doesn’t work either, as it seems locked until the software can pick up. It’s super frustrating since it happens when reviewing the captions, and when they are the “one word at a time” type of captions, it makes it annoying to try to pause to correct a mistake and not being able to, thus having to scrub back to the wanted spot.

This only happens in the Captions Workspace, as when I go back to Editing it plays and pauses on command, so I’m not sure we can say it’s a hardware struggling to keep up issue.

FYI, I’m working with 1080p videos on a 1080p timeline, no effects or heavy transitions, mostly jump cuts. Only a very simple color lut adjustment layer on top.

Thanks in advance.

    2 replies

    Inspiring
    January 29, 2026

    Yup, the timeline is super laggy when the “text” window is active. That’s why I only correct my captions directly on the program monitor and not from the captions window.

    Stan Jones
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    January 29, 2026

    @wocelz,

    What version of PR? What OS?

    When you switch to the Editing workspace, are you playing the same timeline with the captions showing?

    Switch back to the Captions workspace, and close the Text panel. Any difference?

    If not, zoom in on the timeline so less shows. Any difference?

    See this post and the long list of workarounds.

    Link to workarounds post

    Stan