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P: Premiere 25 Playhead laggy with Timeline docked

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When pressing play in the timeline, the blue play head usually runs very smoothly from left to right.

Since the new update, the play head is now very laggy and jittery.

BradMplsCorrect answer

Inspiring

Jamie, Undocking the Timeline did resolve the stuttering in my dual monitor setup. The playhead and timecode displayed perfectly.

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noor_5978

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I was trying to figure out why this was happening to me until I remembered that I had set the FPS limit to 90 in NVIDIA settings in the global parameters! This instantly fixed the problem!

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ThioJoe

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Finally after months I discovered that for me at least, it turns out this was caused by having my Nvidia G-Sync settings set to "Enable for windows and full screen mode". When I set it to just "Enable for fullscreen mode" then restarted Premiere, all the lag went away. So I would check what yours is set to and try that.

Alternatively, I think you could also go to the application-specific settings for Premiere in the Nvidia Control Panel (under the Program Settings tab, not Global Settings), then change the "Monitor Technology" setting to be "Fixed Rrefresh".

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Before, I was having this same issue with playhead lag, and for me it got way worse as I added more markers. Even double clicking on a marker I could see the UI refreshing elements one by one. Undocking the timeline helped with the playhead being smooth, but the rest of the UI was super laggy.

I noticed that if I went into Preferences > General, and unchecked "GPU Accelerated UI Rendering", the lag would go away, but the UI would continuously flicker on any change. Figured maybe it was some kind of monitor refresh issue. After a bunch of toiling around I'm pretty sure I narrowed it down to being caused by G-Sync.

Apparently this might be a known thing for a while. If I do a google search for "G-Sync" limited to the adobe forums, it shows a lot of results of people reporting similar lag over the years, not even just with Premiere.

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Mahedi Vijapura

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Hey, Try to reinstall your graphic driver. In my case i just reinstall my graphic driver (nvidia studio driver) and it solved for me.

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BradMpls

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However, I don't want to edit in this "undocked" Timeline bandage. Nor do I want to close the Properties panel or other panels that might be clashing with the Timeline panel. I presume, Jamie, that Adobe will be fixing this issue and release it in a subsequent update?

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BradMpls

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JANUARY 26, 2025--- Here's the twist (and fix) on the duo monitors timeline playhead "stutter." All this time I had my PP display outputting to two separate monitors; I chose what panels would be in monitor one and monitor two (hope this makes sense). Skipping past all the conversations on this thread, I tried this: I wiped out monitor two's PP panels. I had PP displaying in monitor one. Then, using my mouse, I started to drag/stretch panels from monitor one "over" to monitor two. Then I sized them to my liking, plus added additional panels. In layman's terms, PP "assumed" the two monitors were one, as opposed to my previous setup with PP displaying my workspace panels on monitor one AND monitor two. Maybe someone else can decipher my inarticulate description better than this, but the end result of my actions is no playhead stutter. I was so pleased with the resolve, I ditched the two monitors and bought a single 34" curved monitor instead. Problem definitely solved!

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R Neil Haugen

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Curious, was this undock the Timeline panel?

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66SamusAuthor

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Thank you Jamie! "Undock panel" is exactly what fixed this issue.

Although, it would be nice to still have the panel docked.

Hope this can be experimented with or fixed in the future!

Thank you again ❤️

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jamieclarke

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Hi @66Samus - Can you make sure in your preferences under audio hardware your default input is set to "No Input".

In your timeline panel in the hamburger menu can you select undock panel.

Let us know if any of these help your issue?

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Nicolas3348609771rv

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Thank you Jamie, "undock panel" is exactly what worked for me.

I've been struggling with this issue since 25.0 came out and I've always had to revert back to 24.61 to be able to work on a video, after the recent 25.1 update came out, I figure "FOR SUUUURE" this problem would be resolved by now,. but nope.

Eventually I found your comment here, and undocked the panel, and it works like a charm,... albeit incredibly ugly and inconvenient to have the panel undocked. But f it, it works.

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Nicolas3348609771rv

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But now I'm getting another issue where, once the video is running and the playhead is moving, I can't click on the timeline before the playhead to pause the video and move the playhead to that timestamp I clicked on.

Fix one thing, break another.

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R Neil Haugen

Legend

Ok, so playback is fine, it's just the CTI/Playhead, that moves irregularly?

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66SamusAuthor

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I film with a Canon C100 mkii, always mp4 format. Hopefully this is what you meant?

The graphics driver is version 32.0.15.6070, studio driver, not the game driver version.

Hopefully this info also helps:

The video clips in the timeline still play at full resolution and speed, without any lag. That part has never been an issue.

I'm only talking about the blue playhead itself, so that is why I'm assuming this issue i'm having is unrelated to my cpu or graphics settings, since video itself still plays perfectly like it always has.

The only thing that changed between when the playhead used to run smoothly and now is that I updated Premiere.

But wasn't sure if there was some setting that got changed automatically when it updated.

Thank you again for your help man ❤️

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R Neil Haugen

Legend

That processor is ancient by computer standards. Nearly to dinosaur status, sadly. And yea, that's always painful.

But don't you know what media you're using, and what created it? What format/codec and creating device?

And also, what drives your computer has?

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