Does this happen to you?

[Bob D]

This isn't a big deal, but I am wondering if anyone else is experiencing it. It may just be my computer set up, but when I go to play my project in the monitor panel it will occasionally just stop. It isn't a big deal since I just hit the play button and it continues. This has happened for 2 different projects.

[Steve Grisetti]

I've experienced that occasionally too, Bob. I always assumed there was some Windows process interrupting.

Fortunately, it happens so rarely that it's not a major annoyance for me.

[roadsideron]

There's a project render bar that goes across the top of the timeline. Is that bar stretched all the way across your project?

[Gerry]

This isn't a big deal, but I am wondering if anyone else is experiencing it. It may just be my computer set up, but when I go to play my project in the monitor panel it will occasionally just stop. It isn't a big deal since I just hit the play button and it continues. This has happened for 2 different projects.

YES!! It happened to me quite a few times in the project I just finished. Even after I render. I just assumed it was my computer or a delayed reaction to my hitting some button.

[RJ Johnston]

Anytime PE becomes a background process, video output stops. There is an option that would allow PE to keep going even if it becomes a background process, but that option doesn't work.

There is a small application called Windows Sniper for $15 USD that will encapsulate PE and prevent outside processes from stopping it. I've used it for several years.

http://www.unhuman.com

[roadsideron]

In the early days (in my case, just a few years ago) "EndItAll" was strongly suggested before using a NLE program. I still have the free version installed on my computers but I haven't found it necessary to use it lately. I've have the "Play" stop right in the middle of the project and thought nothing of it, only because I'm just playing around with the program and it doesn't seem to really affect anything.

[RJ Johnston]

One of those problems is entirely different than what Bob is describing. And play is suppose to stop when another process moves to the foreground.