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Tom Fewchuk
Inspiring
October 21, 2025

P: Dragging large amounts of clips is laggier than in Premiere 24

  • October 21, 2025
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I'm just trying out Premiere 25 and despite all the bad choices in it over v24, I am generally liking the slightly speedier timeline.

However, the one huge oversight is when I grab all the clips right of my cursor to move around, it's so damn laggy and slow. Please fix this.



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    membrillo6
    Known Participant
    November 4, 2025

    I downgraded to 25.2.3 and was shocked at how much fast it used to be. This issue was serious enough for me to stay downgraded. It's not just dragging the whole timeline, even dragging a small handful of clips can be a hassle in the new version. Does the Adobe team consult with people who actually edit TV and movies? Because they would've caught this in 15 minutes.

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      EvilLaughMaker
      Participant
      November 2, 2025

      A workaround I found that works is extending a clip with the Ripple Edit Tool [B] or ctrl+shift v a clip moves the entire timeline instantly. But yes, being able to drag the entire timeline without so much lag is preferrable. 

      EvilLaughMaker
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        membrillo6
        Known Participant
        October 29, 2025

        Premiere 25.5 (but recent previous point versions also had this issue)

        Mac OS 13.5.2

        M1 Ultra Mac Studio

         

        If you select a lot of clips in a large timeline and try dragging them to a new location, it barely works. You have to wait a long time for the clips to move, then wait a long time before you release the mouse to "drop" the clips in their destination, and if you release the mouse early, the clips stay where they were. But you're never sure exactly how long you have to wait and when it's safe to release the mouse button. If you accidentally move the mouse a little bit, it takes forever to catch up to the "new location," making it likely your mouse release will be mistimed and ignored.

         

        It's also so unresponsive when dragging that you can't really scrub around for a good place to drop your selection.

         

        I'm having this issue to some extent in all timelines, but it's completely unbearable in longer ones and more complex ones.

         

        This used to be an action I performed all the time. It would be sluggish to initiate the dragging, but once it started you could slide it aroundn and drop it with no issues. But now it's truly unusable. It's incredibly frustrating!!

         

        In the attached video example, I'm dragging about an hour of clips x 2 tracks, but in a full movie or episode it might be 5 video tracks and 20 audio tracks and you literally can't select and drag large pieces of it at all.

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          Tom_edit
          Inspiring
          October 28, 2025

          This is currently a little better in the 26.0 beta [forum] (although releasing a large amount of clips still causes delay)

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            Cinemon
            Participant
            October 27, 2025

            I noticed the same thing. Its quite annoying

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              Tom FewchukAuthor
              Inspiring
              October 22, 2025

              @IanB_360 haha yea the very few positives that 25 offers..

               

              Check out the video I just uploaded to the main post comparing both versions with the exact same timeline on the same system. And try your own test to see how it's singnificantly laggier when moving large amounts of clips around. 

               

              I'm on Win 11 with an i9-12900H, 64GB RAM, 3060 GPU driver version 581.57

              IanB_360
              Community Manager
              IanB_360Community Manager
              Community Manager
              October 21, 2025

              Hi @Tom Fewchuk 
              Glad to hear the positives you are seeing in the current build. Thank you for taking the time to report a problem. It would help us if you could use the link here, How to Report a Problem, which has steps to provide more information that can help us identify the issue. 

              Here to help.

              Ian

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