Audio drop outs during full-screen playback

[BrownFish]

Pretty frustrated with PP dropping audio during full-screen playback.

I'm on a MacPro with 96gigs of RAM.

When I leave the video in a small monitor, no really problems.

Full screen...loads of audio drop outs.

I've tried adjusting buffer sizes, monitor hertz playback, default HZ for the audio.

It is 4k - ProRez 422HQ footage without any real effects, and 4 tracks of audio.

If I playback the sequence first from beginning to end and then review again, playback is much more stable - suggesting that PP is loading things into a memory buffer.

Open to suggestions.

Really wish there was a way to render in-to-out for both picture ad sound so I can "guarantee" a more reliable playback.

[John V Knowles - WM]

You can render picture with sound. 

• Select Edit > Preferences > General (Windows) or Premiere Pro > Preferences > General (Mac OS).

• Select or deselect Render Audio When Rendering Video.

• Click OK.

In addition, make sure your sequence previews are set to ProRes as well. 

[Phillip Harvey]

What kind of drive configuration are you working from? You can definitely get audio dropouts like that if your I/O speeds can't keep up with the bitrate trying to get through. 4K ProRes 422HQ is going to start saturating HDD speeds or 1Gbe ethernet speeds.

[BrownFish · Accepted solution]

Y'know what? I'm an idiot.

I am so used to the smooth operation of the edit when not in full screen, I keep forgetting there IS n option to render in-to-out.

If I do that I get great playback performance.

Thanks everyone for reading a buffoon's post.

[John V Knowles - WM]

Not at all. Glad the replies jogged your memory into finding a solution!