Choppy playback in CC, suddenly

Chances are, you have the playback set a full resolution. Drop it 1/2 or maybe even 1/4.

I have to say,

I am spending more time doing IT work on my computer to keep this program running and less time editing. I am sorry, i know you guys are always asking for specks, software and all that.  But your answers to keep this software from doing the most basic things like playback is getting longer and more complex. I am beginning to feel that i have gotten the Windows Vista version of Editing programs.

Here is an idea, try testing your software for a few hundred hours on a computer we all have before releasing it not a adobe headquarters super computer

We are Editors, not IT personal. And before you say we have to be both, no we don't.  It's like asking the camera man to open his camera and rewire it just to get the view finder working.

GUYS!!

I found the problem!!

I had the same thing, so I read CRide97 reply and tried to find what causes it,

Change the "Default Input" to "No Input" and it solves the problem!

Hello,

I just got off chat with Adobe. I am working on a Macbook Pro, 8GB with a Intel Iris 1536MB Video Card.

1- He had me change the Renderer Settings:

     Click File, Project Settings, General, Video Rendering and Playback

          Mine was Mercury Playback Engine GPU Acceleration, and they had me change it to Software Only

          Then clicked Delete Files

          Then Rendered the project (by hitting enter key)

2- He informed me that my video card wasn't quite large enough for HD video (annoying as I just bought this a year ago)

But after following step 1, my playback was completely fixed Good luck

I am currently struggling mightily with this issue myself. It seems to follow no rhyme or reason.

What I can report is that it really, really tanks my MacBookPro completely, slowing down and causing sluggish behaviour in all other apps, even Finder. Shutting down, waiting a few minutes, shutting down again, blowing out all Adobe cache files (if only I could charge someone for this task - it'd be like a p/t job for me!), relaunching Premiere, ad naseum.

NONE of the suggested workarounds has ever fixed this for me.

TIME is the fix - wasting a few hours once or twice a week when Premiere hits this snag, and eventually finding its balance again so I can resume editing.

I remember when I first started using Premiere CS6 - it was like a dream. Never lost its way even once, if I recall correctly. I couldn't believe how reliably it played back my video and audio.

Lost and very frustrated,

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The strangest fix for me, although it is VERY annoying and not a solution! I am on a new 5k iMac and this issue started a few weeks ago. My fix: When the issue occurs, stop playback, then go to file > preferences > audio hardware, then click settings to bring up your Apple 'Audio/MIDI Setup' dialogue box. Close the box (don't CMD+Q to quit it!) ensuring the icon is still active in the Mac dock. Now go back to premiere and hit play on your sequence timeline... Still stuttering?... Now click repeatedly on the Audio/MIDI icon 5-10 times (nothing will pop up because you closed it, remember) and then return back to your timeline and press play. THIS FIXES IT FOR ME... for about 5 minutes. It happens again, I repeat the process.

I have tried this consistently so I KNOW IT IS WEIRD but it works for me............

Premiere is a PITA, poorly developed and buggy leaving Pro users totally stuffed and searching for workarounds just when a deadline approaches.. Totally unacceptable when we pay for the priveledge and have no option but to use their Apps. Out of the blue I'm suffering hopelessly choppy playback in Multicam. The video (XAVCI from an Fs7) plays fine in the multicam source sequence but not in the multicam sequence. I'm using PremPro 9.2.0, a MBP i7 with 16GB Ram, Nvidia GeForce discrete video card and 1TB SSD running Mavericks. Totally by chance I've found that reducing the number of audio tracks in the 'sequence settings' dialogue has an effect. I dropped from 8 tracks to 4 and it plays ok. Upped it to 32 tracks just for a laugh and won't play any audio at all. Maybe the 'audio hardware' thread is the one to follow to solve this nonsense. Is it a RAM issue or more likely poorly debugged Adobe software?

Dear Editors friends,

I was having this issue with video struggling at playback, and I solved the problem changing the AUDIO HARDWARE

Edit > Preference > Audio Hardware (My default input was my capture board and I just clean that and my playback is normal again)

Please try that before you uninstall or do something crazy, can be very useful!

Thanks!

I have had this issue for the past few weeks and tried everything I could find including reinstalled the programs and deleting all existing settings. The fix for me was annoying simple if not seemingly complete random. By chance I unplugged my USB microphone (Rode NT-USB) and started up Première Pro and the choppy audio had gone. I plan on testing this out some more, but wanted to post here in case it helps anyone else find a (possibly) dodgy USB device they have attached).

I was having the same issues with choppy playback (leading to crashes). Much trial-and-error later I think I've hit upon a fairly easy fix. Most of my sequence preview settings had defaulted to I-Frame Only MPEG. In the Sequence Settings I changed the Editing Mode to Custom, then chose Quicktime as the Preview File Format and the Codec to Apple Intermediate Codec. Seems to play much better with different formats in the same sequence and slightly faster than ProRes.