user4230: I am attempting to edit video in Adobe Premiere CS6. When I create a sequence and try to play it back in the preview screen, the video is extremely choppy, which makes editing very difficult (dance videos, i.e. trying to sync with music properly). 
After some searching, two things seem to work for others - either changing playback quality to 1/4 or 1/2, or rendering the work area before playback. The former seems to have no effect, although the latter (rendering) does create smooth video. 
Unfortunately, when the render finishes, the video is now playing in super slow motion, and is therefore completely out of sync with the music. Any ideas on how to fix this?

user10418: I used to get stuck with this problem. I finally solved it by changing the "video playback settings" from "the sequence settings" in the "sequence" menu. The default resolution is 1920 x 1080. I changed it to 640 x 360, and after that playback was always 100% smooth, even while using a mixture of .mts and .mvi full HD files, with contrast and brightness effects on them, without even having to render at all, even while the bar is red.

user2836: It sounds like a combination of two things from the comments discussion.  First, with the very high frame rate, your laptop simply can not handle the high data rate.  If you need to edit on the laptop, I would suggest re-compressing the video down to a smaller size and then when you are done, you can replace the low quality footage with the original for the final output.
The second problem is that it appears Premiere is interpreting the footage wrong.  There is an  Interpret Footage option if you right click on the clip and go to Modify, Interpret Footage.  You can confirm the frame rate is correct on the source.  If it is, then you also want to check the framerate on the sequence itself.  Right click on the sequence, choose Sequence Settings and verify that the frame rate is correct there as well.  If both of those are correct and you are still getting the issues, then I am unsure what could be happening.

4230: <p>I am attempting to edit video in Adobe Premiere CS6. When I create a sequence and try to play it back in the preview screen, the video is extremely choppy, which makes editing very difficult (dance videos, i.e. trying to sync with music properly). </p>

<p>After some searching, two things seem to work for others - either changing playback quality to 1/4 or 1/2, or rendering the work area before playback. The former seems to have no effect, although the latter (rendering) does create smooth video. </p>

<p>Unfortunately, when the render finishes, the video is now playing in super slow motion, and is therefore completely out of sync with the music. Any ideas on how to fix this?</p>
 10418: <p>I used to get stuck with this problem. I finally solved it by changing the "video playback settings" from "the sequence settings" in the "sequence" menu. The default resolution is 1920 x 1080. I changed it to 640 x 360, and after that playback was always 100% smooth, even while using a mixture of .mts and .mvi full HD files, with contrast and brightness effects on them, without even having to render at all, even while the bar is red.</p>
 2836: <p>It sounds like a combination of two things from the comments discussion.  First, with the very high frame rate, your laptop simply can not handle the high data rate.  If you need to edit on the laptop, I would suggest re-compressing the video down to a smaller size and then when you are done, you can replace the low quality footage with the original for the final output.</p>

<p>The second problem is that it appears Premiere is interpreting the footage wrong.  There is an  Interpret Footage option if you right click on the clip and go to Modify, Interpret Footage.  You can confirm the frame rate is correct on the source.  If it is, then you also want to check the framerate on the sequence itself.  Right click on the sequence, choose Sequence Settings and verify that the frame rate is correct there as well.  If both of those are correct and you are still getting the issues, then I am unsure what could be happening.</p>
