DJI DRONE FOOTAGE PLAYBACK ISSUE ON LATEST PREMIERE PRO 25.6.2

Question

Hello,

with Adobe Premiere Pro overall I am experiencing a lot of lagging during playback. It is some time since I updated it, so I decided to update. I believe that I was using Adobe Premiere Pro 25.0 and I updated it to the newest 25.6.2. After the update, I exported two of my videos containing also the drone footage from DJI Mini 4 Pro (.MOV file). And it seems that there is some problem with the latest version of Premiere Pro and these DJI footage files.

I was watching back the videos that I exported and everytime the drone footage came into play, it froze on the first frame. Up until another cut to a footage from my camera. I opened the Premiere and it did the same thing in the software. I am working with this kind of drone footage regularly, so I had to downgrade back to version 25.0.

Is there any way to resolve this playback issue? I didn't try to play footage from any other drone than this, but I am afraid that there is some problem with reading that codec, so it is possible that DJI drone footage in general can cause this kind of trouble. Footage wasn't corrupted or damaged in anyway.

I also wanted to ask - Is there is any chance of making Adobe Premiere Pro more optimized for my device? Maybe some setting changes? Because I am having a serious trouble with smooth playback overall. It gets really bad with long timelines, but it is not smooth at all even with shorter formats. I am usually using about three layers of 4k video (100mbps) with some minor color grade, real struggle comes into play when I am editing on longer (about 1 hour long) timelines. I am using Macbook Pro M1MAX 64GBRAM 2021.

Thank you very much!

Jan Valášek

JonesVid · Answer

When you say .mov format I assume you are using an HEVC (H265) codec?.

Do you have the Media INfo tool ?. If not, download it on your MAC and analyse one or two videos and post here

https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo/Download

Click bottom icon on left side and select 'Tree' option to display Audio and Video characteristics. Post here too.

I'm assuming the video should have Constant Frame rate.

Posting a short sample of one of your video clips (if you can) would be useful to analyse and try on other platforms to help you out.

I don't have a DJI Drone but I use the DJI Pocket 3 with HEVC video at 50fps 4KUHD and there are no issues on that.

Do you have the issue with only one 4KUHD track (not stacked)?

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