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JamMasterSam
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January 2, 2020
Question

Resolution wont drop in programme monitor in Premiere Pro

  • January 2, 2020
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So I have a timeline full of 4K footage, when I try to drop my resolution from full to 1/4 the footage in my programme monitor clearly plays back at the same resolution and is giving me massive lag.

 

I am not a newbie and know there is something weird going on, this has never happened before and now PP is running sooooooo slow.

 

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MyerPj
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MyerPjCommunity Expert
Community Expert
January 3, 2020

As Carlos said, start using Proxies. They work really well and are fantastic to edit with. Use Cineform or ProRes media for your proxies. The h.264 is what we are trying to get away from for editing.

 

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JamMasterSamAuthor
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January 3, 2020

Thanks MyerPJ,

 

Why are editors trying to move away from h.264? I haven't heard this.

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Carlos ZiadeCommunity Expert
Community Expert
January 3, 2020

H.264 requires lot of processing and is not much editing friendly,

more used in delivery to social media since you can have lot

of bitrate manipulation in H.264 (more practical for compression than editing)

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Carlos ZiadeCommunity Expert
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January 2, 2020

proxy workflow is best practice when it comes to 4k

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    JamMasterSamAuthor
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    January 3, 2020

    Thanks Carlos. I often use Proxies however that wasn't my question, I wanted to know why the resolution wouldn't drop when I selected it to. The issue seems to have been resolved overnight however. 

    Kartika Rawat
    Community Manager
    Kartika RawatCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    January 2, 2020

    Hi JamMasterSam!

    Thank you for reaching out. I understand that you're having trouble with playback in Premiere Pro. Am I correct?

    Please take a look at this page. It shares the best practices for optimizing performance in Premiere Pro: https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/kb/troubleshoot_playback_performance.html#Solution

    Let us know if it helps.

    Best,

    Kartika

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    JamMasterSamAuthor
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    January 3, 2020

    Hi,

     

    Thanks for the reply. The issue seems to have resolved itself overnight, perhaps an update was installed without my knowing. It was just very odd the resolution wouldn't drop.

     

    I'm using V14.0.0.

    I use macOS Mojave v 10.14.6, CPU is 2.8GHz, Memory 16GB, 1TB SSD, GPU Intel Iris Pro 1536MB.

    I do use Motion Array extension so will also remove in future if this becomes an issue again.

     

    Thanks

     

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    Kartika Rawat
    Community Manager
    Kartika RawatCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    January 3, 2020

    Thanks for letting us know.

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