Stuttering playback after rendering project into prores 4444 codec

Question

I'm attempting to render a short film into a Quicktime Prores 4444 codec in Premiere Pro.

This is the requiref format for a film festival I am sending the film to.

After rending however the playback is stuttery and doesn't play smoothly.

My setup is 16gb RAM, 6820k with a intel HD 530 graphics card.

Could the poor playback be due to my Windows computer rather than the file itself?

I re-rendered a prores 4444 back into an mp4 through Adobe Media Encoder and it played smoothly.

I'm wondering if the poor

Sumeet_Kumar_Choubey · Answer

Hi maraf60326008,

Welcome to the community! The poor playback of ProRes 4444 on your system is likely due to the high data rate and color depth demands of this codec. ProRes 4444 can have up to 12-bit color depth for image data and up to 16-bit for the alpha channel, which significantly increases the amount of data processed per frame, especially with 4K or higher resolutions. As suggested by MyperPj, you may try the lower data rate variants of ProRes for easier playback handling.

Let us know if that helps.

Thanks,

Sumeet

Sign up

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Sign in to Adobe Community

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.