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MahaB82A
January 3, 2022
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Dropping frames in premiere pro

  • January 3, 2022
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I am unble to understand this concept. What does it mean? What is the purpose of this?  I assume dropping mean elimination of frames but I watched videos showing without seeing the frames it is droppping frames.  

 

 

 

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Correct answer R Neil Haugen

"Dropping frames" means your system can't actually reproduce all the frames of that clip in real-time, so it's "dropping frames" ... not showing them ... to try to keep up with playback speed.

 

At this point, you could go to the playback settings in the lower right corner of the Program monitor, and select say 1/2 or 1/4 resolution, and see if it now can playback without dropping frames.

 

Or try creating proxies.

 

Neil

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Inspiring
January 4, 2022

When you have the indicator switched on and hover over it with the mouse you will see how many frames have been dropped. It makes a big difference whether it's 1 in 10 Minutes or 10 in 1 second 🙂

    R Neil Haugen
    R Neil HaugenCorrect answer
    Legend
    January 3, 2022

    "Dropping frames" means your system can't actually reproduce all the frames of that clip in real-time, so it's "dropping frames" ... not showing them ... to try to keep up with playback speed.

     

    At this point, you could go to the playback settings in the lower right corner of the Program monitor, and select say 1/2 or 1/4 resolution, and see if it now can playback without dropping frames.

     

    Or try creating proxies.

     

    Neil

    Everyone's mileage always varies ...
      MahaB82A
      MahaB82AAuthor
      January 3, 2022

      How to know which clip of the frames have been dropped?

      R Neil Haugen
      R Neil Haugen
      Legend
      January 3, 2022

      It will drop frames as your system's resources are overloaded. So it will be different frames intermittently dropped. You can click on the Wrench menu icon in the Program monitor, and select "Show dropped frame indicator" and get a little thing in the lower left that shows red when it's dropping frames.

       

      This is just playback of the image, of course. It isn't "loosing" any frames of the clip, it just can't play them back at the moment in real-time.

       

      Neil

      Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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