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BNC10a
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October 26, 2018
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About the stuttering playback in Premiere 2019

  • October 26, 2018
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Just thought I'd post this because I've been trying to track down an issue and discovered something interesting.

I have two identical projects in 2018 and 2019. The one in 2018 always plays smoothly but the one in 2019 never does. I tried moving cache drives from inbuilt hard drives to inbuilt ssds to external USB 3.1 drives. Nothing helped. It was then I realized, 2019 would play smoothly until I rendered the effects. So I started to mess with preview presets.

The previews I had been using for both was the Cineform 10-bit preset. In 2018, they played fine, but they didn't work as well in 2019. So I went through all the presets, testing each, and landed on Quicktime 10-bit 422 uncompressed (the 8-bit worked as well.) 2019 began playing back as smoothly as 2018. (Albeit with giant preview files on my cache drive.)

This got me wondering. 2019 threw up low-level errors about my Cineform dll when I first installed it, and the only fix for it was to remove the Cineform supplied codec from system. 2018 never complained about it being installed.

So perhaps a change was made to the Cineform dll that isn't as optimized as well as the earlier version. I noticed when I used the Cineform presets, my hard drive would crunch away every time (I suppose) it was loading the next preview file. The uncompressed 10-bit hardly ever hammered on it.

Not really looking for a discussion. Just know some others here were having trouble with stuttery playback in 2019 and thought posting this might help them. I really prefer the Cineform not only for the size difference but the ease on the cpu.

The Cineform preview in 2018 doesn't seem to hammer on the drive as much, but that could be a placebo effect.

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      Correct answer gamerlearner

      Thank you - after trying all the options and updating a bunch of drivers, changing the audio hardware settings from MME to ASIO appears to have resolved the issue of stuttering during playback.

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      Andreas@Filmtek.no
      Participant
      September 9, 2021

      I had this exact problem. What caused it for me was the Blackmagic Design Decklink Mini Recorder PCIe card (was running the latest 12.1 driver). When I removed the card from the PCIe slot in my computer, stuttering dissapeared and everything is back to normal.

       

       

        Kevin-Monahan
        Community Manager
        Kevin-MonahanCommunity Manager
        Community Manager
        June 24, 2019

        Please check out gamerlearner's response: Re: About the stuttering playback in Premiere 2019

        Did it help?

        Thanks,
        Kevin

        Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community & Engagement Strategist – Pro Video and Audio
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        cb-deakin4863625
        Participant
        July 18, 2019

        Hi Kevin,

        I'm experiencing some major stuttering across cuts that have multiple exponential fades, spot sound effects and atmospheres, running an Avid Artist Mix console as well, hung off of the system.

        As I'm on an 8-Core iMac Pro and only have the CoreAudio option, switching to ASIO is not possible. I'm running a Zoom TAC-2 for headphone monitoring though Thunderbolt and running PP v13.0 in an enterprise environment. Trying to finish off a temp mix and experiencing these issues for the first time today.

        Any suggestions please?

        Cheers and thanks in advance.

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        cb-deakin4863625
        Participant
        July 18, 2019

        Additionally, this seems to be strongly related to placing multiple exponential fades to the audio tracks. I have swapped a number of them out for constant power fades and the issues is clearing.

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        CBPellow
        Participant
        May 23, 2019

        Sometimes it can be as simple as going into your audio hardware settings and making sure you don't have an audio input that is causing the issue.

        I have a sound card whose drivers were causing the chop, and as soon as I changed out the audio input, the chop when away completely. I am not even using proxies and I am getting good smooth playback.

        That doesn't mean it will work for everyone, but it was an instant fix for me in Pro CC 2019. I don't see anyone recommending that fix on boards anywhere so it could have been just me.

        Chris

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          gamerlearnerCorrect answer
          Participant
          June 2, 2019

          Thank you - after trying all the options and updating a bunch of drivers, changing the audio hardware settings from MME to ASIO appears to have resolved the issue of stuttering during playback.

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            mikeo33070267
            Participant
            June 20, 2019

            ASIO worked for me too.

              Kevin-Monahan
              Community Manager
              Kevin-MonahanCommunity Manager
              Community Manager
              November 1, 2018

              RESH,

              It sounds like you hit a bug that we are seeing across new installations of Premiere Pro CC 2019. We have a new version of Premiere Pro coming very soon that should remedy this issue. Please look for that update. Once that is installed, please let us know how things are going for you.

              Thanks,
              Kevin

              Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community & Engagement Strategist – Pro Video and Audio
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                derikn47415148
                Participant
                November 9, 2018

                Just downloaded the 2019.13.01 and there was no improvement.

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