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December 14, 2022
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Timeline playing in slow motion, lagging?

  • December 14, 2022
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It seems my Creative Cloud auto updated to include Premiere 2023 last night.

 

Now if I open a project I was working on yesterday in 2022, the playback on the timeline, even rendered clips appear to be in slow motion even playing at a lower resolution.I changed nothing.

Tried a new, basic project with some small JPGs as footage, same thing. So it's not related to one project.

 

It's not the specs of my machine, nothing changed. I have a fast ProArt Studiobook.

 

Is there anyway to get the playback to normal so 1 second doesn't equal 1.5 or 2 seconds of time? If I hold up a stopwatch I can confirm it is indeed this slow.

Stumped. Thanks.

Correct answer SC-Agency

Might have solved. I did have an MME audio device error I ignored when starting up Premiere. I had never had that before.

On a hunch I went into Windows microphone privacy settings and authorized Premiere and After Effects to be able to use the mic and BOOM my timeline immediately started playing in real time speed again, 1 second = 1 second.

I hope this hack / trick / fix helps someone from pulling their hair out.

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Inspiring
December 14, 2022

Might have solved. I did have an MME audio device error I ignored when starting up Premiere. I had never had that before.

On a hunch I went into Windows microphone privacy settings and authorized Premiere and After Effects to be able to use the mic and BOOM my timeline immediately started playing in real time speed again, 1 second = 1 second.

I hope this hack / trick / fix helps someone from pulling their hair out.

Participant
September 29, 2025

This right here saved my hair from falling out lol