Speed/Duration Playback Issue in Premiere Pro 2020

[duskypanther]

When remapping speed using the speed/duration function, it is unable to playback correctly in the timeline.

However, the clips still export correctly. The problem is simply with playback after speed is changed. I've tested across different machines and projects, and the problem is across the board.

Please fix!

Thanks,

Brandon

[Ann Bens · Accepted solution]

What if you render the clip first?

[duskypanther]

Setting I/O points and rendering the clip does allow for normal playback, yes.

However, I see this as a temporary solution, as we should be able to play back time remaps without rendering and storing excessive video previews. Hopefully Adobe addresses in an update soon.

But still thank you!

[Joe Hirst]

Still an issue to this day. Rendering in some instances does not fix the issue. [text deleted by mod: keep it civil]

[philjay78]

same here!

[elcuad]

I'l having the same issue wuth speed duation function too.

[codyg11461527]

Same issue, any sort of speed ramp or speeding up doesn't play back.

Imported the files into 2019 version and it all worked fine.

[robmisleh]

Same Here! Everything worked fine in PP2019 but same clips have playback issues in 2020. I updated my OS and that didnt seem to help. The issue is bad with 60FPS clips and especially bad with 120FPS clips. Ive noticed that this only occurs when I speed the clip up, seems to playback fine when I'm slowing it down. Is this a bug?

[duskypanther]

Yes it certainly seems to be a bug. Adobe please address!

[Martin_Kalzium]

Same problem here. Still not fixed.....!!!!

[Milton Video]

I also have this problem. Major issues with speed ups as everything gets messed up as soon as that problem occurs (can't preview the speed up part, timeline marker doesn't move with playback, waveform of the audio glitches, saving issues etc). Switching away from the (CUDA) renderer and restart the project does help, but then the project gets a rough to work with as it doesn't save any previews.

Please fix this Adobe!

[tushardixitfilms]

Same problem. 

Sometimes the timeline also plays at 2x speed for me, but that somehow got fixed on its own. This one is driving me crazy though

[A3user]

I am having the same issue since a few days ago, it's extremely annoying!! 

[Laf_90]

Nest your clip first before time remapping/ speedduration.

It works for me. But it would be better if we dont have to deal with nest lol

Hope it helps, Thank me later.

[Higharcmedia]

This worked! Thanks.

[Ryan Farber]

same issue, i get this error message

"A low-level exception occurred in: Adobe Player (Player:11)"

[aaronbjohns]

Stiiiiillll not fixed for me. Works fine up to (speed/duration change or time remap) 150% of 120fps footage. Then playback just freezes through the whole clip. 

[elcuad]

I agree, this should be fixed since I've had the same issues on 3 computers
(PC + MAC) so I'm pretty sure it's a bug and not hardware/settings issue.
Robert A. Cuadra

[duskypanther]

Over two months now without a fix, kind of crazy for such an important feature. It's been very inconvenient for our video team. Keep commenting everyone, hopefully Adobe will take notice!

[Braden Larsen]

I am soooo sick of this.  I use Speed Ramps a lot, and can't even open Premiere anymore without wanting to punch a hole in my monitor.  I've commented all over the internet for a solution, and nothing.  Adobe needs to get it together.

[aaronbjohns]

This is by no means "ok" but I'm with you and am a bit of a time remap fanatic, so a workaround I found that sort of works is if you just click and drag the timeline cursor (idk the proper term, just the big line that shows you where the vid will start playing) you can use the audio play back to drag it at a speed that sounds about like real time. If you do that on a time remapped clip, it should play back as you edited it and in "real ish" time. I tested it a lot before I used it on a paid project and each time I did it, exported the final video and watched it back, it was good and as intended.

Pretty dumb workaround, but it's better than keeping 2 versions of premiere installed and all the exporting/importing back and forth nonsense that seems to be the only other option.

[Braden Larsen]

That's defintely an interesting work-around haha.  I will give it a shot!  I've been stuck bouncing between two versions of Premiere as of late, so maybe this will be my fix for now. 

Just to give an update, they are aware of this issue now.  I don't think anyone was posting about this particular issue in a place where the Adobe techs acutally check.  I posted it on another forum, and they responded to me, and I did a video call with them showing the issue and explaining exactly how to replicate it, sent them the footage I was using and everything.  They told me they will hopefully find and fix the issue, but it may take a while to make it to an official update of Premiere.  So sounds like we still have to play the waiting game, but I at least feel good that they are aware of the issue and are working on it.

I heard of another fix that I haven't tested yet, but figured I'd mention here.  I heard that if you don't "Interpret Footage" and just manually slow every clip down to the correct % (i.e if you shoot at 60fps and have a 24fps timeline, it would be 40%), then speed ramp and edit from there, it works as it should.  I haven't tested this yet myself however, but was planning to test on my next project.  Just figured I'd throw that out there.

[MyerPj]

If you guys want to be seen by the Premiere Pro engineers you need to upvote / post on "UserVoice".

Below is a link to a thread where an adobe engineer has already replied, but it only has three votes currently. It's the first one I found using 'time remapping' in the search box, lower right.

https://adobe-video.uservoice.com/forums/911233-premiere-pro/suggestions/39120262-speedramp-in-premi...

FWIW: This is a user to user forum, except for a few, we are not adobe employees

[Braden Larsen]

Thanks for this, just went and commented on the link you provided.  I can't believe nobody has contacted any devs about this still however.

[Acardona90]

One temporary fix I found is switching my sequence settings from CUDA to "Software only" when applying speed ramp. I came across a similar issue. I went back to CUDA when I exported and everything came out fine. The only problem was I had to render my clip every time for steady playback when doing this in Software only.