Choppy playback of Timelapse Sequence in Premiere Pro

[Lewiscat]

Hello - Just want to confirm something.  I created a timelapse of 300 jpeg photos in Premiere Pro 2019.  The playback was choppy and unusable when viewing in the Program Monitor and also when viewing the export when generated by my new MacBook Pro laptop (8g memory).  I performed the same on my more powerful iMac (32g memory) with a faster CPU and the timelapse performed perfectly when editing and on export.  My intuition suggests that processing a timelapse should not be too 'labor intesive' for the computer. Can the performance difference by attributed to the power difference between the two or is there something else going on with the laptop?  Please advise.  Thanks much.

[R Neil Haugen · Accepted solution]

8GB of Ram is the bare minimum for Premiere to open let alone operate, and I wouldn't be surprised if the rest of that rig were similarly low powered.

You're confusing the apparent "simplicity" of the material to your mind with the complexity of real operations in an NLE. It doesn't just play back media. There's a heck of a process going on with the app every moment to be grabbing bits here and there and making up pixels on the fly.

So even for what seems "easy" there are a lot of processes going on. A rig with faster CPU and several times the RAM can handle the "background" processes in the background. That laptop can't.

Neil

[Lewiscat]

Thanks for help Neil. I thought the capability of the computers might be the issue as the two timelapse projects were exactly the same.

[Shivangi_Gupta]

Thanks for following up on this!