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July 31, 2025

High load with low cpu performance and premiere pro lagging

  • July 31, 2025
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I’m using a MacBook Pro with the M3 Pro chip. When I started editing my first video in Premiere Pro — a simple 4K 10-bit S-Log video — I noticed that the performance was lagging, even though I only added four text layers.

 

I checked the CPU usage and found it to be low, doesn't go above 20% but the video is so lagging specail after using replace with after effect option to make and effect for part of the video

so I’m not sure why Premiere Pro is struggling with such a basic project or my new mac have problem??

3 replies

jamieclarke
Community Manager
Community Manager
August 1, 2025

Hi @mahmoud_3260 -   Thanks for submitting your bug report. We need a few more details to try to help with the issue.
Please see, How to Report a Problem.

 

Do you have any third party plugins or panels installed?

Can you check your audio hardware settings and make sure Default Input is set to "No Input"

What effects are you using?


Sorry for the frustration.

Community Expert
August 1, 2025

Can you go to Premiere Pro/Project Settings/General and tell us what it says next to Renderer?

Peru Bob
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 31, 2025

Try Preferences > Audio Hardware and set Input to None.