Premier Pro CS3 timeline jitters on playback

ngsilver · Post by **ngsilver** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 10:17 am

I'm throwing this out there to see if anyone has experienced this before and might know of a solution that I haven't already tried.

I just built a new PC, running XP 64 SP2 and was forced to install a newer version of premier for reasons including the fact that running 6.0 on the XP Pro sp2 OS on the same system would crash explorer to the point I have to reinstall the OS.

I'm running CS3 (not happy about it either) and no matter what I do whenever I play the timeline (space bar) the edit point jitters back and forth about 20 or so frames and the video output is choppy because of it. Audio plays at proper speed, but the video jumps all over the place. When I scrub the timeline this does not happen.

I'm running an AMD Athalon 64 X2 dual 5400+ (2.81 GHz) and have 2 gigs of ram. I have the newest nvidia drivers for my card. I do run dual-monitor, and the problem persists no matter which monitor the preview is on or if I disable a monitor.

Playback only takes up 60% of my processor power.

I suspect this is a problem with running a dual core, but I'm unsure. It just seems like premier is talking to both cores separately and getting each one to render the screen at the same time (rather then running together) and that's causing the jittery playback.

Any suggestions? I've googled the problem, and have found no real fixes.

mirkosp · Post by **mirkosp** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 11:31 am

Premiere CS3's preview sucks. Period. Have your same problem, but, well, my laptop is a LOT weaker than your pc (2 GB RAM, 1.70 GHz CPU). Running XP SP2, but I don't think that it matters. Even rendering the timeline for the preview doesn't seem to work, the preview is choppy, independently from the OS and the setup of the computer. It's like that both with single and dual screen. It doesn't even matter the codec for the preview...
I seriously hope that Adobe will fix this, 'cause it's slower to edit with the preview like this...

LivingFlame · Post by **LivingFlame** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 11:45 am

Wow, that's a common problem for CS3 on PC? I'm glad I got it for Mac. ._.
I would think Adobe would patch something like that. It sounds like it would be darn near impossible to edit effectively with it like that. I think I'll go wander around the Adobe forums for a bit and see if I can't find anything out...

ngsilver · Post by **ngsilver** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 11:51 am

Actually... I restarted my system about 4 times and it fixed itself....

I don't know what caused it, or if the problem will return... I do hope that there is a patch if that is the case ^^()