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Thumbnails and waveforms constantly flashing - almost unable to operate

Forum|Forum|8 years ago
December 7, 2017
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Dear Adobe-Team:

What is this??

https://vimeo.com/246243945

Using Premiere Pro 2018 and our Thumbnails and Waveforms are constantly flickering/flashing.

Handling Premiere during this behavior is almost impossible, UI becomes quite unresponsive.

This behaviour starts and stops spontaneously.

Sometimes zooming wildly in and out helps, sometimes we have to restart the machine etc.

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arned332111

Participant

Late 2023 - I am currently working in Premiere and it starts flickering and flashing all over again. Latest version installed on a Mac. Openening a finder window and goin back to Premiere makes the flickering stop. At least for a few minutes. Then it starts again by not showing the audio at all and then back to the flickering.
I'm really disappointed Adobe doesn't fix such annoying behaviour in years!

steveh17702721

Known Participant

Surely adobe must have an answer for this - just noticed that this isn't confined to any particular system setup ... it seems to be happening across multiple platforms and hardware configs... is it in the project architecture being overloaded? This would seem to me to be something that is hard to diagnose unless you have a large long form project - fact that a newish m1 iMac is also having this issue says that it is very serious

Steve

steveh17702721

Known Participant

Hi all,

this has been happening with us for years and I have tried everything EVERYTHING !!

the ONLY thing that has fixed this is to remove the blackmagic studio 4K card (or select Didplay Audio or any other audio out in PP prefs) - I have very fast raids, media cache is also on a fast ssd - currently running PP22.4 and absolutely no blinking or flashing timelines... seems to me that the BMD decklink (and I have tried many versions of desktop video) isn't compatible with PP...

I HAVE GIVEN UP ON BMD & PP as a system but curiously NO issues with Resolve studio which has me thinking all sorts of thoughts

Timmetjie

Known Participant

June 2022, PP 22.4.0 and this has become a many-times-daily occurrence.

softbox

Participating Frequently

I did try it. It temporarily solved for like 30m, but they disappeared on
me starting.

Side note: rendering the audio brings them back, but they end up
disappearing again after few edits are made. Also anytime I restart
premiere, I have to render audio again. Even if I render before I restart.

mauriciobejota

Participant

I have this same problem in the latest version Premiere 22.4.
Working on an M1 imac.
Waiting for an update that fixes this.

IMG_2695-1.zip

Timmetjie

Known Participant

did you try my silly little hack? Just ALT-TAB into another package, then back into Premiere. Seems to do the trick for a while.

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Daniel245378523q0z

Participating Frequently

Works for me at least for a while. It's a quick enough work around, but hopefully it gets fixed.

Timmetjie

Known Participant

This is a ridiculous little workaround, but it seems to do the trick... when your waveforms start flickering, just CMD-TAB open another application, any application, ontop of Premiere. Then minimse it, and voila... the timeline is stable again. For a while at least.

ashearer66

Known Participant

That was the simplist solution and actually works! At least there's a temporary fix because it's a huge obstacle.

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Trevor_Asq

Legend

Saw this flickering today on v22.4

What *seemed* to fix it was to center pan the audio in one of the tracks (ie A1 was centre panned, A2 was incorrectly panned left).

Just in case it helps anyone...

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Daniel245378523q0z

Participating Frequently

Same. Seeing it on Version 22.4.0.

M1 Macbook Pro

macOS Monterey Version 12.2.1

16GB Memory

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Daniel245378523q0z

Participating Frequently

Experienced it with a completely different project on a different computer as well.

Premiere V 22.4.0

2020 iMac Retina 5k

3.8 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i7

72 GB 2667 MHz DDR4 memory

AMD Radeon Pro 7500 8 GB

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Sumeet Kumar Choubey

Community Manager

Hi ,

Blackmagic Design has recently released Desktop Video 11.5 which addresses multiple issues with Premiere Pro.

If you are using Blackmagic Design PCIe or thunderbolt products, you may update to the latest version (11.5) and check if it's working properly.

You may refer to this link to know more about it.

Thanks,

Sumeet

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bobb80864073

Participating Frequently

Hi all and Kevin-Monahan,

I read on on another forum that someone found a solution to something similar to this problem by changing the smooth scroll setting on the timeline to the page scroll setting. Has anyone tried this and had any success?