What fps does Premiere render the UI at?

Probably.

Neil

First, framerates for media vary quite a bit by region and project type. 24/25 depending on US versus Europe. 24fps being more common in 'film' work, 29.97 in much video work. Web use is all over the place.

And of course, a lot of media is shot faster then slowed to the 'base' rate of the project.

Most of the colorists I know do set their refresh rates to the framerate of the project at hand. That's one of the reasons they have those Flanders and Eizo monitors, so they can set the appropriate refresh rates for the media being used.

Editors ... some do, some don't, some don't have a clue about matching refresh rates to framerates. For many editors, they don't handle "finishing" so ... they leave "that stuff" to another worker down the line.

But if you want pixel-by-pixel accurate screen representation of your media, warts and all, you have to have the same refresh rate. Which is why colorists and anyone 'finishing' a project should be able to use the appropriate refresh rate. Noise & artifacts both show much more accurately.

Neil

I realize that for you, used to high-speed gaming refresh rates, that is now more important than that you actually see the video frames correctly. Different strokes for different folks.

I prefer seeing my video frames most accurately. Which is accomplished by setting the monitor refresh rate to the same as the media being used on timeline.

You prefer a "smooth" mouse movement.

I never pay attention to the mouse movement ... I don't even understand why one would. So, yes, we will see things quite differently.

And as most of the working professionals with a preference will want to be able to set their monitors to the framerate, they won't be asking for a gamer-style UI. It would interfere with their work ... as such things as artifacts would not be reliably "seen".

Neil

My "subjective" view of Premiere running smooth is I never ever see a hiccup or jerk in the mouse except for immediately after selecting a major operation. It may wait a half second to second while the action initiates, then returns to normal seamless motion.

And I have my confidence monitor set to refresh at the same rate as my sequence and UI monitors at 60Hz.

I never see anything but as smooth mouse movements as in any other app on my machine.

Neil

It runs quite smoothly on my system. It clearly depends upon both the system its being used on and the number and types of other processes running at the same time.

One user posted that he did a complete wipe and reinstall of OS and apps on his computer,  including everything tfat he'd had before. The only difference was Premiere, Media Encoder and AfterEffects were the first three apps installed, in that order. And his performance in Premiere was vastly improved as was stability.

So ... all sorts of things can and will have an influence, and they can be different on each rig.

Neil

Premiere doesn't run within a game engine, and therefore its UI doesn't run at any frame rate. It will sync to your montor's refresh rate, whatever that is. Any perceived lack of smoothness would be a result of a not-very optimised UI, resulting in laggy interactions. Those laggy interactions will happen at a silky smooth 144 Hz though...

nevermind. was thinking of the playback windows, not ui.

Never heard of this either pinging

Trent Happel

Interesting question. What sort of material do you edit?

I know a number of broadcast editors and colorists/fx. They tend to have their monitor refresh rate set to the same as their working frame-rate in the app being used. That way each frame of media is an uninterrupted image on-screen, so smoother view of the work being done.

So my question ... what's the frame-rate of the media you're editing?

Neil