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Participant
August 6, 2025
Question

Some slow motion clips are choppy, others work.

  • August 6, 2025
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I often run into problems with my slow motion clips coming out choppy. The sequence is set to 30 fps and my clips are in 60 brought down to 50%. Of all the times I have run into this issue I solve it by either nesting the clip in another sequence or optimizing premiere to use more memory but this happened out of nowhere. I was in the middle of editing and every slow motion clip was working fine then all the sudden while navigating my timeline 3 clips just went choppy as you can see in the video provided. One clip whether nested or not will be choppy then the following is completely fine. I am at a loss for how to fix this if anyone can help it would save me big time, thank you. I have the premiere view where the 3rd, 6th, and 7th clips are choppy but in the other exported video provided only clip 6 is choppy. Again all of these clips were working fine before. I can only think I somehow mispressed a button and this happened with no warning, but why would premiere have a chopping hotkey. 

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Community Manager
August 14, 2025

Hi @dylanl85742226, does this happen as well if the fooatge is slowed down with speed/duration instead of interpreted? What is the source for the media you are working with (camera, file type, etc) and could you share your hardware specs as well?

Participant
August 10, 2025

same thing is happening to me. i have a project with many 120 fps shots and slow motion was working fine. then suddenly all the slow motion shots are choppy, despite the footage being properly interpeted. it seems to fix itself if i make the sequence 120fps.. but that's not a fix. my video is 24fps..

this is mad annoying, completely destorying my deadline for this project. i can't find a fix without crazy workarounds. it was working FINE yesterday. nothing was changed. 

Community Manager
August 6, 2025

Hi @Ean364353579oam

 

Welcome to the Premiere Pro forums and sorry you're experiencing issues. Could you share your hardware specs and the version of Premiere Pro you are on?

Is the speed change done with Speed/Duration or with Interpret Footage? Do you have any other effects applied besides the speed change or any adjustment layers? If there are adjustment layers, do you see the choppiness without them?

 

It's a little hard to tell but I'm seeing 'Nested Sequence 03' at 29.97 fps in the Project panel, while the rest of the nests are at 30 fps—does this 29.97 nest show any choppiness in the main sequence or in the export?

Right-click on the Program monitor and check if you have 'High Quality Playback' selected, deselect it if so just to rule out.

Sorry for the frustration and hope we can help you soon,
Dani