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December 22, 2016
Question

Premiere 2017 - Choppy Playback (timeline, source monitor, everywhere)

  • December 22, 2016
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Here are my specs

Mac Pro (2013)

3.5 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon E5

16GB 1866 MHz DDR3

AMD FirePro D700 6144 MB

Premiere struggles to playback any footage that is NOT 1080p 30fps.

4k footage - plays for 2 seconds and locks on a single frame while audio continues...

1080p 120fps - same

1080p 60fps - same

I am having a really hard time believing that my computer isn't powerful enough. I hear about people editing 4k footage on Macbooks with no problem. I've tried reverting back to Premiere 2015 as I've heard that it's playback engine works better, but the problem is I'm halfway through a project and I can't open a newer (2017) project on an older version of premiere.

Help?

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3 replies

MP1968
MP1968
Participating Frequently
January 5, 2017

Premiere playback has certainly gone downhill since 2015.2. Something quite fundamental has changed under the hood. Perhaps it's just us folk on Macs that are struggling, but we have projects that play happily on the timeline in 2015.2 but barely make 4 or 5 seconds without grinding to a hault. Changing down to 1/4 quality only partially fixes the issue.

We are mainly cutting 4k MP4 files from Panny GH4's on 1080p timelines.

We are on a mix of high-spec iMacs and MacPro machines.

I really feel your pain at the moment and hope that something in the works at Adobe HQ will fix the issue. I'd rather not get into a Proxy workflow if I can help it.

Matthew P

Bill Gehrke
Bill Gehrke
Inspiring
December 23, 2016

What disk drives and what usage?  What you have said is the 1080p 30 fps works but faster higher resolution does not work, Sounds to me like your storage system is limiting your editing

    Rameez_Khan
    Rameez_Khan
    Legend
    December 22, 2016

    Hi asdfasdgasdgadsg,

    What's the codec of the footage you're working with?

    Are you playing back at Full-Res?

    Is High Quality Playback enabled under Source/Program Monitor settings?

    Where is the footage located?

    Thanks,

    Rameez

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