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How to fix video lagging in Premiere Pro? | Premier Pro Dude

How to fix video lagging in Premiere Pro? | Premier Pro Dude

During playback, Premiere Pro drops some frames because the footage is not smooth and because of how the playhead moves along the timeline. 

If the playhead shows small jumps instead of running smoothly along the timeline, that can be a sign that some frames have been dropped.

So, How to fix the lagging video?

-> Change resolution

The first thing to do is to change the playback resolution for your video without altering its export resolution. 

Doing this can reduce playback lag significantly. 

And for creating such a change, click the playback resolution dropdown menu (the ‘full’ button) and select any of the 4 options from there to reduce the playback resolution to a fraction of the native resolution. You may see: 1/2, 1/4, 1/6 or 1/8.

-> High Quality Preview

We always prefer to see our video in high quality as it looks so good as well as the same quality that we are going to upload on YouTube or export. But choosing high quality preview can reduce the performance of Premiere Pro. 

Disabling the high-quality playback option is also another way to resolve playback lag. 

So, to disable the high quality playback, simply go to the program monitor settings and deselect the high-quality playback option. That's it!

-> Proxy Videos

For making our task faster, proxy videos have been used by many of editors. Generally these are nothing but a lower resolution copies of an original video. 

Fortunately, Premiere Pro supports proxy files. 

Working with a proxy can ensure you’ll experience no lags during playback. 

There are 2 ways to create a proxy video in Premiere Pro. 

Here's the first:

Open a "New project window". 

Go to the ‘ingest settings’ tab and tick the ‘ingest’ button and select ‘copy and create proxies’ from the dropdown menu which is just adjacent to the ingest button. 

Here's the second:

go to project menu. 

Simply highlight and right-click the projects that you want to create proxies for.

In the context menu, you'll have to select ‘proxies’ and then ‘create proxies’.

-> Mute FX

We add effects to the clips and it creates a heavy project inside Premiere Pro, which is one of the reasons why we see video lags. 

So, turning off the effects we applied will surely resolve the lagging problem. To turn off effects, you should click the ‘Global FX Mute’ button which you will find on the play toolbar below the playback screen. 

If you ae unable to see the FX button in the toolbar, click the ‘+’ button which is located at the lower right side of the screen and drag the FX button to the toolbar.

So, that's it for today.

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