Major lag on timeline with Premiere Pro v 23.1 - macOS

Fixed this morning by rolling back to 23! 

I see others found the same conclusion. Hope this helps.

You can roll back through the 23.x versions without troubles with working in that 23.x version project file. An earlier 23 version might fix your ills at this time.

Neil

Oh and I have this strange noise coming from my speakers only when pro is open

I'm having the same issues, pro updated during my last video edit and now it's doing the strangest things, if I want to use the cut tool first I have to click on it but nothing happens, then all I have to do is click on edit, go back and click on the workspace and now I have the cut tool, same procedure to get any other tools or to apply any effects, empty the cache no help, I have plenty of memory and RAM.  could I just roll back to 22.6 until this gets fixed?

@Rett5DE3 Having the same issue with needing to re-render footage. Sometimes it preserves a render. Other times not. Also seeing sporadic compression artifacts on footage.

Hi Kevin,

Thanks for moving this to the bug forum. I haven't tried editing a 100% brand-new project since the upgrade, but I've added existing projects into two new productions that have had the same issues.

I've also:

• split projects up to make them smaller
• reset preferences
• upgraded my external drive to an SSD (needed to do anyway)
• switched my media cache location

Don't know whether this is helpful, but thought I'd share just in case.

And I really appreciate the feedback on my tutorial videos. I've learned about so many cool features in Premiere by making them. Big fan!

Thank you Kevin. Also, anyone else having the part of the issue where it constantly seems they need to re-render some footage without making changes? 

Kevin, your latest link seems to be the same issue for sure. But for me, restart won't help.

Hi Kevin.

My Intel Mac specs are as follows (no issues on the M1, so I wouldn't look into that):
iMac Pro 207
3 GHz 10-core Intel Xeon W
Radeon Pro Vega 56, 8 Gb
RAM 32 Gb

Mac OS Ventura 13.1

The source media is usually Sony XAVC-I footage from either an FX6 or an FX3, but there's the occasional drone footage, Canon footage, phone footage, you name it. But even with proxies, the issues are still there. It is definitely not a source media issue. So yes, I have tried transcoding and creating proxies, but there's absolutely no help at all.

I have tried clearing all caches, fully reinsstalling Premiere, resetting preferences, I've tried multiple different hard drives, I've tried setting my caches, auto-saves and all of that to a different location, I've tried going Hardware vs. Software only. Nothing helps in any way.

I have had dozens of new projects and new sequences. No change in performance. I've also tried to tweak both the project and the sequence settings. No help.

I have tried applying all kinds of effects and I've had projects without effects. But that's not the issue. No matter what effects I use, playback is normal. Everything works fine in terms of playback. The issues are with the interface, the UI. Changing the height of a track, tweaking  the size of the program monitor or the timeline, opening up an effects menu, changing panels, tweaking the effects controls.

All of this aside, the solution for me was to downgrade to 23.0. It works fine. So there's no point in trying to look for the issue in our computers or in what we do. If an older version works fine but the newer one doesn't, it's definitely a software bug issue. And it's a major issue.

Hi all,

Sorry. This bug could be related, but the whole UI gets stuttery, not just the Timeline: 

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-bugs/23-1-update-gui-slowly-becomes-sluggish-while-working-restart-fixes/idi-p/13414330

Thanks,
Kevin