Skip to main content
MikeDy
MikeDy
Known Participant
December 17, 2024
Question

Timeline choppy in premiere pro 25.1 and previously suggested fixes not working

  • December 17, 2024
  • 15 replies
  • 1300 views

Hi All,

 

I have an issue in premiere Pro 25.1  where the timeline playback is choppy to the point of only updating every 5 -10 seconds which is making editing somewhat challenging.... This only happens when the timeline is docked and is fine when the window is floating.

 

System specs:

Premiere Pro 25.1

WIndows 11 pro 24H2

Amd 5950x CPU

RTX 3090 GPU

128Gb RAM

All NVME based storage

 

I've tried the fixes noted in the post below, none of which have solved the issue.

 

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/premiere-2025-choppy-timeline-playhead/td-p/14924290

 

Having spent half a day trying to fix this, including installing latest Studio Nvidia driver and the two older versions mentioned in the post above, each time using DDU to cleanly remove the previous driver and it hasn't helped. In each case I also reset preferences and deleted cache etc.

 

The footage is h264, i tried recoding to prores yet issue is the same.

 

I'm now editing in 24.6.4 and all is fine...

 

Any suggestions on how to fix Prem 25.1?

 

Thanks in advance!

    15 replies

    jamieclarke
    Community Manager
    jamieclarkeCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    December 30, 2024

    Hi @MikeDy - Do you have any third party panels installed.  It is hard to tell everything that is open from your screen recording.  Sounds like a panel is causing an issue as when you have the timeline full screen then no other panel is showing.  Can you try closing individual panels until you see your timeline playing correctly, and then let us know which panel was causing the issue.

    MikeDy
    MikeDyAuthor
    Known Participant
    February 20, 2025

    Hi all,

    Sorry for the slow response. I have had NO third party panels installed during any of this testing. It has been a bit better since 25.1, but I've still had performance issues in timeline responsiveness and regular issues with the audio waveform not being visible as well as regular crashes. As soon as you undock the timeline, so its a floating panel it's all fine again. Surely this can't be either file specific or related to third party panels that don't exist?

    To be totally honest I'm just using 24.6.4 I don't have any more time to spend on this. Every new version of Ppro seems to be a buggy nightmare, I had all sorts of issues with v24 initially too so just stayed with 23 for the first 6 months - year after it was released.

    I do get the sense us poor creative cloud users are beta testing your software and it's not really acceptable...

    MikeDy
    MikeDyAuthor
    Known Participant
    December 29, 2024

    Just for info.... If I double click the top bar of the timeline to make the timeline full screen the play head works fine as it also does if you make the timeline a floating window. 

     

    Surely this can't be file dependent if its fine in those cases? Its only an isse when the timeline is in its standard docked position....

      MikeDy
      MikeDyAuthor
      Known Participant
      December 29, 2024

      Hi All,

       

      Many thanks for the suggestions. 

       

      @dustonian I tried disabling gsync, setting my monitor to 60Hz (its usually at 100Hz) checked super resolution was off (it was) but couldn't find where ECC state was so haven't enabled that. None of these helped in my case.

       

      @jamieclarke I erecoded one of the clips in media encoder using the h264 Match Source Adaptive high birate preset (which incudes stereo audio) Once imported and a new sequence created from that new clip it still has the same issue...

       

      Still rocking PP 24 as this is unusable....

      jamieclarke
      Community Manager
      jamieclarkeCommunity Manager
      Community Manager
      December 26, 2024

      Hi @MikeDy - Can you try and export a new file but change your audio export settings something other than compressed mono?  Then reimport your file and let us know if you are still having issues.

       

      D
      dustonian18624333
      Participant
      December 24, 2024

      Yeah that really doesn't make any sense...

      MikeDy
      MikeDyAuthor
      Known Participant
      December 24, 2024

      Okay great, I'll gie that a try. weird that PP 24 is working fine though....

      D
      dustonian18624333
      Participant
      December 24, 2024

      Hey, so I just went into NVIDIA Control Panel, turned off G-Sync, turned off Super resolution in "Adjust video image settings" and checked ECC under "Change ECC state" and now it's working. Not sure which one of these did the trick, but may be something you could try. I was getting very annoyed with this same problem before so hopefully this could help you as well

        D
        dustonian18624333
        Participant
        December 23, 2024

        Would love an update on this, having all the same problems and none of the workarounds are helping.

          MikeDy
          MikeDyAuthor
          Known Participant
          December 19, 2024

          Hi James,

           

          Well the original files I've been provided by my client (long stpry short, I'm making a highlight video of something someone else produced, hence the rather low quality files.Still trying to get hold of better quality footage to work with. I'm having the same isssue with other unrelated footage though, so as mentioned I'm pretty sure this isn't a footage issue.

           

          Footage is on an internal NVME ssd drive so drive speed is not the issue. My machines are setup with 3 x NVME drives, system/ cache and data as you reccomend (C.D and E respectively).

            jamieclarke
            Community Manager
            jamieclarkeCommunity Manager
            Community Manager
            December 18, 2024

            Hi @MikeDy - Are you using the original files?  Is your media file properties from the file that won't playback?  Is E: an external drive?  Does the problem still happen if you copy the files to the local drive?

            Show more replies
            Terms & ConditionsAccessibility statement
            Using the community Terms of use Privacy Cookie preferences Do not sell or share my personal information ad choicesAdChoices