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Ashley7
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July 4, 2017
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Premiere Pro will not stop playback

  • July 4, 2017
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Premiere Pro has been working fine... I just changed Preferences/Timeline to allow for a scrolling timeline on playback. After that, I started playback and observed the expected scrolling timeline... however, I cannot stop playback now. My last proj save is about 5 minutes ago... probably okay if I kill the process but would like to avoid that... it's a lengthy sequence so the alternative is to wait like an hour LoL .

Note, I enabled scrolling playback because paging playback was not working... it is usually fine. I'm thinking my long sequence is the problem. I tend to see issues when I get into multi-hour sequences that I sometimes use for reviewing footage into a rough cut.

Any thoughts on how to interrupt this playback? I tried Control-Break but no dice... it appears the Premiere UI is stuck so looks like I won't be able to interrupt it with a UI control or space bar.

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    Correct answer Ann Bens

    Try this:

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    Kevin-Monahan
    Community Manager
    Kevin-MonahanCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    March 18, 2023

    Hi Ashley,

    I am so sorry that some of you are still experiencing this bug in current versions. Thanks to everyone who wrote helpful posts and commentary. Unfortunately, the Premiere Pro team does not respond in this user-to-user forum, but they do read the Bug Reports and Ideas forums. Please address them there.

     

    For action on this bug, please upvote and make further comments on this bug report. That would be the best thing we can do as a community. As a community manager here, I will also advocate for the issue. My apologies once more if you are affected by this issue.

     

    This thread is locked.

     

    Thanks,
    Kevin

    Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community and Engagement Strategist – Adobe Pro Video and Audio
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    thiagolunaf
    Participating Frequently
    January 7, 2023

    it's crazy that this still happens in 2023... 

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      Ziv5C73
      Participating Frequently
      November 7, 2021

      still happening November 2021

        johnd6721027
        johnd6721027
        Participant
        August 20, 2021

        I can't be sure, but I think for me the solution was removing my 2nd display (a large Mac Monitor), because my 2015 MacBookPro could not redraw the screen fast enough.  As soon as I unplugged the 2nd display and everything was confined to my laptop screen, I could start and stop playback using the spacebar.  With that 2nd display plugged in, nada.  Playback continues until it runs out of sequence.

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        ewanger
        Participant
        March 8, 2021

        Thanks for your suggestions.

        When I ran my imported clips through Handbrake and then reimported them, things seemed to work a lot better.

         

        That implies that it was some kind of timecode hell or something like that.  I'm no video jock, but that solved my problem

         

        -eric

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        Dvlpdd
        Participant
        March 8, 2021

        I am a long time Premiere Pro user and I keep having this problem. I'm currently on Windows but have had the problem on Mac for 8+ years.

         

        The hardware is more than adequate.

         

        I have tried all the recommended solutions, sometimes with success sometimes without.

         

        • Lock/unlock audio layers
        • Delete all caches
        • Renamed config folder to have Premiere create new ones
        • Used only one display
        • Deactivate hardware acceleration de-/encoding
        • Reset settings during start-up of Premiere (ALT+SHIFT on Windows or OPT+SHIFT on Mac during start-up)

         

        Even done even the pram/vram voodoo non-sense on MacOS 😉 

         

        My current best solution that works most often is the following:

        • Remove all time reversed clips.

         

        Even though it solved my current problem, it's time for me to switch to DaVinci Resolve. I can't afford to use a non-functional software just before a deadline.

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          dgresh
          Participating Frequently
          December 14, 2020

          This starting happening to me to, on Widows 10 with v14.7.  No multicam, but it's a long sequence with a lot of layers.  I adjusted the work area to be just the section I was working on instead of the whole timeline and it seems to have stopped it, at least for now.

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          mbanov1
          Participant
          March 11, 2020

          just wanted to say it still happens in 2020...

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            ewanger
            Participant
            December 4, 2020

            Also Trying to get Premiere to stop playing back when i hit stop....

             

            Premiere Pro

            14.6.0 (Build 51)

             

              Model Name: MacBook Pro

              Big Sur 11.0.1

              Model Identifier: MacBookPro15,1

              Processor Name: 6-Core Intel Core i9

              Processor Speed: 2.9 GHz

              Number of Processors: 1

              Total Number of Cores: 6

              Memory: 32 GB

             

             

             

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            christianm62242965
            Participant
            December 14, 2020

            Hey there. Just wanted to share my experience.

            I had the same issue, a fairly complex sequence with many effects an premiere wouldn't stop playing for over a minute each time! (Max. frustrating when you automatically hit the Spacebar after doing sth. to look at it).

            Parts of the sequence worked fine in another project... so i tried to recreate the problem.

            Turns out: I had an audio track (musicvideo) underneath the whole sequence, that i had locked... you know, cutting the video without accidentally moving the music...
            As soon as i unlocked the audio track, premiere would play the smoothly as—

            Maybe that helps some of you... these bugs still drive me crazy in a "professional" program i pay for every month...

             

            Mod note: Edited to remove profanity.

              Lhopsecker
              Lhopsecker
              Participant
              November 5, 2019

              Over two years later, newest Adobe annual update, and this is still an issue in multicam sequences.

              edwinl76571172
              edwinl76571172
              Participating Frequently
              March 7, 2019

              I am also encountering this issue. I haven't done multi-cam editing in a while, so only noticed today that when I press spacebar (play), Premiere Pro 13.0 just gets "stuck" in playback mode with no way of stopping it, except to end the process in Task Manager.

              I've turned smooth scroll off for now, and that does seem to help, though I see there are some here who have the option on 'off' and still get the issue.

              Just thought I'd throw my voice in here, hoping it gets some love from the devs.

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