Hi grendelfilms, The playback in Premiere Pro may or may not be in real-time depending on the complexity of the timeline and the processing load on your CPU/GPU. The processing here is done by both CPU and GPU based on the effect that you have applied on the clips. Increasing the VRAM itself may not help much in getting better performance if you are mostly limited by the processing power of the CPU and GPU. Though if you are using 4K or higher resolution media, then higher VRAM GPUs can certainly help (6GB or higher depending on the type of media used). Also, using RAM as VRAM may not help much in solving performance issues mostly because of the speed difference between these two. For example, the newer VRAMs are based on DDR6 memory and most of the RAM memory is based on DDR4 of lower memory types. This may cause a performance difference and assigning RAM as VRAM may not help. Though you can try these steps to check if it helps in getting better playback: In Premiere Pro, choose File > Project Settings > General. Then set the Renderer as Mercury Playback Engine GPU Acceleration. Decrease playback resolution if necessary. Click on the Wrench icon on the program monitor and then click on Playback Resolution and then set it to lower values like 1/2 or 1/4. If you are still not getting smooth or real-time playback then you may need to render the sequence to get a real-time playback. To do this, highlight your timeline, then click on Sequence > Render In to Out. This will pre-render the frames required for playback. Hope this helps, let us know if you have any questions. Regards Sumeet Kumar Choubey
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