Premiere pro 2019 live playback is too choppy

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January 27, 2019
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Hi,

I have started video editing recently and has been a lot of issues with live playback in PP CC 2019. First I tried with 4k 24 fps footage from my GH5 (8 bit) and it had the issue. After color grading and adding couple of transitions it was performing too badly. The playback of choppy. Like 2-3 frames per second. It is just showing some frames at random interval and not smooth at all. After that I thought of checking the performance using iPhone 4K 24 fps footage. It works great when there is very minimal color grading of the footage and very less transitions. But if I add more transitions and color grading then it performs really really bad. I see that people have suggested using 1/2 or 1/4 quality for live playback but it should at least perform at least better for iPhone footage. I am really frustrated at this one. Surprisingly my PC is very powerful if you go through specs. I built it last month. For this specs it's unbelievably slow. Not sure what I am missing.

System specs:

Intel core i9 9900k

Memory 32 GB DDR4

GPU EVGA GTX 1070 8gb

Storage 512 M.2 drive

I would really appreciate if someone can help me through this.

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Jamie_Steel

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I am having a very similar problem. My playback has been fine for several weeks working on this project. Now, all of a sudden, I am having severe playback issues. I am collating old news stories from the 60s/70s/80s so the files are low quality 240p/480p files. In terms of their playback size so should be causing no problems whatsoever? I have genuinely no idea why this has suddenly started happening but it seems to be having the same problem when I transfer the files to different drives and save the project file onto a different drive.

I am running a similar system to Jivan above,

System specs:

Intel core i7 7800k

Memory 32 GB DDR4

GPU Nvidea Quadro P4000

R Neil Haugen

Legend

Both media you are working is some of the nastiest editing media made in camera. Long-GOP H.264, which rags the heck out of the cores/RAM of your machine. Just for playback in an NLE. Throw in some hefty effects like color or Warp, it gets worse.

You've got 8 cores at a decent speed but could probably double your RAM to start really feeding them.

Make Cineform proxies from the included presets.

Neil

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