What is 'screen tearing' and why you shouldn't care!

What is "screen tearing" and why you shouldn't care!

This tutorial will demonstrate a screen problem that looks like the screen is tearing or separating in spots and why you shouldn't worry about it.

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[jeffschaap]

It's December 2022 and and the video tearing struggle is real. I have a GeForce RTX 3080ti (latest studio drivers installed from Nvidia) and Premiere 23 (build 63) and it was very bad. The solution (for me at least) was to hit Control-F12 (Command-F12 on a Mac of course) in Premiere. This bring up the Console window. Click the "hamburger stack" and select "Debug Database View." Search for "directx" and set DS.DisableDirectXDisplay to TRUE. Then RESATRT PREMIERE for it to take effect. Hope this helps my fellow editiors! Also, Colin you're the man! Met you at NAB years ago. Hope you are well my friend.

[mrsnoo]

it is V-SYNC/Vertical Sync things. this screen tearing is often happens in or while playing games and because the GPU delivering/pumping too many frames than the Display/Monitor is capable of. for example, a game thats not configured properly in their in-game V-Sync Settings or the V-SYNC was set to off, and your Display/Monitor is 60hz, and your CPU+GPU can deliver more than 60 fps, and that screen tearing will happen. and if you limit/cap the fps to match the Display/Monitor refresh rate (60fps = 60hz) using V-SYNC = ON, and then there will be no screen tearing again. because they match (60 fps and 60hz). and also you need to adjust the Vertical Sync settings in NVIDIA Control Panel to Use the 3D application setting or set the V-SYNC manually for specific application or game. cheers!

[DLHMedia]

Actually, upon having this issue on my new build today in September of 2022 I found the answer from another user. In Premiere Pro there’s a debug console (ctl F12) where you can disable direct x display and solve the problem. So far this has caused no performance issues

[asafblasbergvideographer]

I had this EXACT issue and it drove me nuts! I resolved it by going to my NVIDIA Control Panel -> Manage 3D settings -> Make sure to change the setting "Power management mode" to PREFER MAXIMUM PERFORMANCE... then, set Vertical sync to On. After making these changes to the settings, I no longer had tearing. I have an nVidia GTX 1080 Ti. Running Premiere Pro 2020 on Windows 10. Let me know, VideoRevealed, if that resolved your issue :)

[SouthpawAutoworks]

I have not experienced this...however, it's just a matter of time. With that said, it's so good to know about this. Thank you, Colin.

[RenLuuk]

Colin - you are psychic!! I was editing yesterday and was going crazy over the screen tears (now I know the name!). I went back and forth thinking it was a glitch - nope. I have the same nvidia driver as you - time to update!! Thanks so much, my friend x

[Medsas]

use a FreeSync or G-Sync monitor or a VRR TV and you won't have this issue ever

[tutacat]

Actually you can control it either by forcing vsync / vertical sync (to hide screen tearing) or disable it to reduce latency (for videos slower than the refresh rate)

[Myotradventure]

Never noticed screen tearing, but if I had I'd have stressed over it, too. Thanks for cutting this off at the pass for me!

[PotatoGamer_Real]

is screen tearing bad for my monitor or any hardware on my pc?

[cakeller]

Brilliant. This is exactly the type of thijg that I would notice and expect was a glitch in my layer stack or something and would go thru a bunch of settings and revert and etc all before I would try an export! Now if anything like this comes up, I will for sure test exporting before the rest. Thanks for the tips

[coopersavva]

I have these but they are showing up in my export, is this an issues with the raws maybe?

[angrypotato_fz]

Cool! Always good to know that something shouldn't be cared for :D

[vincelund]

I don't get this at issue at all in Davinci Resolve. Same footage, same PC, RTX4090. I wonder how they solved it in there?

[markwiygul]

I have something similar but far far more severe on one particular monitor. The monitor has been hooked up to various computers, same problem, so must be the monitor. The problem is mild to SEVERE with the entire bottom half of the screen is a duplicate of the top.. or it might be a tiny band at the bottom that's a duplicate of the top. This is the entire desktop screen, not just a video. Most of the time no problem. Rarely, problem so bad I have to turn the computer power off without shutdown because I can't do anything, including shutdown or reboot. What's the deal?? Is it something like screen tearing?

[jamiehobert]

Annoying issue that I think is only NVidia GPUs, not AMD in my experience. But I "worked around" this issue by doing the following on my multi-monitor setup...

1) With premiere open I went into the back of my PC and pulled out the two monitor cables (HDMI and DisplayPort Cable).
2) I then plugged my 2nd monitor in first, and then a few seconds later I plugged my main monitor in second.
Issue is fixed!...until you restart the computer anyway, then the issue comes back.

Annoying? Yes. But at least this resolves the issue. I haven't tried turning on VSync in the NVidia Control panel yet but sounds like that gets mixed results. At least this method works for me 100% of the time because I can't just "ignore" this issue while editing.

Hope that helps.

[leiarollberger]

Hey I play with a 144Hz, whenever i play a game that i only can get up to 80 fps or so is it normal for screen tearing to occur?

[Evildood]

I notice them on my projects but as soon as I hit export they disappear. Also I notice that the tend to be more noticeable with prores codecs than others.

[Teewriter]

It’s a graphics card thing. My screen does that a lot in regular office programs.

[TerryBollea]

What about on my tv watching cable channels through a set top?