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AndrewTheGreat
AndrewTheGreat
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April 10, 2026

Premiere + BorisFX = insane lags

  • April 10, 2026
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Hi, I know that the title implies I should post it on BorisFX forums (which I also did), but I’d post here too since Adobe should cooperate with BorisFX in order to solve their common problem.

The problem lies in insane performance drop when BorisFX plugins are used in Premiere Pro. 

Here’s a screenshot of a single BCC Film Glow:

Just one property is animated with 3 keyframes, and the timeline shows this already:

In a FHD sequence with a 8-bit 420 4K clip in h264. I can assure you that the long-gop here is not the problem. I have a 14700K-RTX-4080-64Gb PC which plays back 9 physical copies of this staff with no frame drops but a single BorisFX effect nails my system down. And it happens with any BFX effect. 

I have no problems with any other third-party plugins, Film Impact here can even be used in batches and no playback issues at all. But BFX are just the worst performers, any of them.

And I checked the same BFX plugins in Davinci and magically there are no issues there. All the BorisFX effect are played back in real time and render fast, so it’s a Premiere Pro specific issue.

For those who will ask this - I have BCC v19.0.1 but the plugins version does not matter at all since the problem just accompanies these plugins since their first day, I think. Something must be done here.

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    Rach McIntireCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    April 10, 2026

    Hi ​@AndrewTheGreat,

     

    Always good to hear from you.  Thanks for the detailed report and the screenshot. The fact that the same BorisFX effects play back in real time in DaVinci but not in Premiere is a useful data point and worth looking into on our end.

     

    A few questions that would help:

    • What exact version of Premiere are you on?
    • Does the performance issue occur with BCC effects on all clip types, or specifically with long-GOP H.264 footage?
    • Does applying BCC effects to a short test clip in a brand new project show the same behavior?
    • Have you tried disabling GPU acceleration for the BCC effect specifically within the BorisFX plugin settings?

     

    I will also flag this for the team. That said, since you have already contacted BorisFX, it would be worth asking them specifically whether they have a GPU rendering path configured differently for Premiere versus Resolve, as that might explain the discrepancy.

     

    Sorry for the frustration. Thanks for flagging this.

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