So you open up your project, but alas, the timeline is just not playing back right.

Now you’ve had a little break (maybe gotten a snack and some tea) while your system rebooted, but you’re back at your desk and ready to give everything another try.

It’s just the nature of the digital beast. Your brain can suffer from choppy playback, too.Īs the old adage goes, “have you tried turning it off and on again.” All editors, whether Mac or PC users, no matter if we’re Final Cut, Resolve, Avid, or Premiere jockeys, need to keep this standard practice in mind. Take a minute to sit back, breathe, and have a mental reboot of your own. And if a program restart doesn’t do the job, a full system restart just might.Īnd if restarting seems too obvious or simple a solution for the complicated issue that you’re suffering from, just take a few minutes and give it a try anyway. Simply closing and reopening the program can often alleviate issues because the program “flushes” the processes it may be hung on and then initializes them again. Complex software like NLEs tie up vast system resources, including the CPU, memory, storage, GPUs, and network bandwidth, which can naturally cause a performance hit and choppy playback performance after long editing sessions. It may seem trivial, but sometimes Premiere Pro or your machine just needs a fresh start. Clear Premiere Pro’s preferences and plugins.If you’ve ever experienced playback problems, export errors, or irregular performance, hopefully this guide will spare you future frustration, and get you on the right path to NLE creative harmony. In today’s article, I’ll walk through some common issues and solutions in Adobe Premiere Pro and show you how to fix them. So let’s learn to take charge of our tools. Because when you’re two days from client review, the last thing you need is to waste hours browsing old forum posts for technical help. So even though troubleshooting a printer is not something most editors are prepared for, troubleshooting NLE problems is something we should all practice. Particularly for us in the post-production world, this inevitably seems to happen at the tail-end of a project when everything is due for delivery. Technology, like people, has bad days from time to time. And if this hasn’t happened to you, it’s coming. Or at the least, Premiere Pro’s playback gets choppy and stuttery.

We’ve all been there before the network goes down, your workstation won’t boot, or your NLE of choice crashes every time you right-click, and suddenly your workday comes to a screeching halt.

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