It may seem trivial, but sometimes Premiere Pro or your machine just needs a fresh start. 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 2 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.
