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Garrett Despain
Inspiring
August 22, 2018
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Annoying amount of dropped Frames in Premiere Pro CC. FIX IT.

  • August 22, 2018
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Constant dropped frames in premiere pro. Extremely frustrating. To the point I'm scrubbing back over and over again to try and watch it fluidly.

Macbook Pro late 2016.

2.9ghz intel core i7.

16gb DDR

Radeon Pro 460

Intel HD 530

-I've tried proxies. Footage currently proxied from 4K to 720p at 1/4th res playback.

-Another forum mentioned to hide the workspace bar, no dice.

-I am not in Lumetri scopes.

Working off an external drive, USB-C SSD. Plenty of space on drive and on the computer.

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Correct answer Garrett Despain

Let it be known, the new update fixed my problems. (Premiere Pro 13.0 October 15th 2018 release) Good luck everyone.

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athinab45863125
athinab45863125
Participant
June 6, 2019

This issue seems to come up with nearly every release its like Dropped Frame roulette every update! I was getting dropped frames stuffering playback, Premier Pro unresponsive and crashing. all thats mentioned here and in other threads. Im running AMD 1100T on Asus M5A97 with SSD system drive and media on NAS. I have preview files set to local storage (SSD).

I just wanted to share what worked for me after hours of trying different combinations.... In the sequence settings change the edit format to anything MPEG2. I found a Cannon one "Cannon XF MPEG2 1080i/p" and suddenly I can play the whole sequence through with zero dropped frames (occasionally 1 or 2 frames dropped which I can live with). This was true with both CUDA and Software rendering.

Im not fully sure why this is but likely its to do with the way MPEG2 can be decompressed a lot easier than H264 which most of the other editing modes are.

You could also try converting all your project clips to MPEG2 before starting for the same reasons (I haven't but I suspect it will speed things up dramatically, will try soon). If youre wondering what bitrate to use etc just use exact same rate as the original. H264 is only better than MPEG2 at lower bitrates. Once you get up to the rates that come out of 1080 or 4k cameras the quality is pretty much the same. Doing this will significantly lighten the load on your system.

Hope this helps!

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    nickb50244379
    Participant
    June 12, 2019

    This made all the difference!! No idea why but on Premiere Pro CC 2019 13.1.2 it's like night and day.

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    Garrett DespainAuthorCorrect answer
    Inspiring
    October 23, 2018

    Let it be known, the new update fixed my problems. (Premiere Pro 13.0 October 15th 2018 release) Good luck everyone.

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    elkalamar
    Inspiring
    October 23, 2018

    Hi Gary, that's good to know. I hope this works for everyone.

    I did try deinstalling PrPro and using Adobe Media Cleaner tool prior to reinstall as advised here, and it made no difference whatsoever. So hoping this latest update works (and doesn't bring in new bugs of it's own!)

    cheers

    R Neil Haugen
    R Neil Haugen
    Legend
    August 22, 2018

    Let's see ... a laptop with a slow, 4-core CPU and a GPU that's a bit slower according to online comparisons than the old Nvidia 970's, with your apparently 4k media on an external drive. If you're running long-GOP media on that, standard mov/mp4 from DSLR/mirror-less/drone/devices, that stuff needs many fast cores with a bunch of RAM per core.

    So, what's the original media?

    And did you use the Cineform proxy presets, or make the rather common mistake  of using H.264 for proxies? The whole reason for proxies is of course to get something that plays back better ... and using a long-GOP codec with the high load of CPU/RAM that entails is not a good choice.

    Neil

    Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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    Garrett DespainAuthor
    Inspiring
    August 23, 2018

    I'd humbly accept your response without insult if this problem wasn't all-of-a-sudden. I've been editing on this machine, same footage, with no problem up until recently. I have changed no workflow, and now I'm having issues. I'm considering just editing off my PC that I built for gaming at this rate, if it is my machine.

    Proxied to 422 LT. Original media is h.264 Linear PCM - 4K 150mbps, MOV files (8 bit).

    Curious if you think I should proxy them to something else?

    When I first got this machine brand new, I wouldn't even proxy the files and wouldn't get this many dropped frames (I would drop quality to 1/4 playback, and still got dropped frames, but not this bad). Thanks for your input.

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    elkalamar
    Inspiring
    September 25, 2018

    You could reinstall premiere and before doing so use Cleaner Tool.


    Thank you Ann, that's useful to know as a potential solution (though I'm mid-project and can't really afford to be doing that right now - still it's good to know)

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    Garrett DespainAuthor
    Inspiring
    August 22, 2018

    Every thread I've found offers many ideas but NONE of the other threads have been solved.

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    Garrett DespainAuthor
    Inspiring
    October 23, 2018

    Super weird Neil... Adobe just did an update and improved performance on macbook pro users - now I'm having no issues at all and running smooth as butter BEFORE proxies. They did fix it, so thank you Adobe!

    Neil . . Something something slow GPU... 4 core something something?

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