Adobe Premiere Elements 2023 Extremely High Memory Usage
- March 29, 2023
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Hello,
I upgraded to Adobe Premiere Elements 2023 for the ability to edit HEVC (h.265) files without the need to convert to h264 first.
I loaded a series of 4k HEVC videos from my GoPro into PE and edited them into a 1+ hour long video. Everything seemed to be working ok (although a little sluggish) until I went to export the video.
Exporting the video to 4k h264 (using a variety of different settings for testing, same outcome every time) the memory usage from Premiere Elements is off the charts. It'll spike my RAM close to 100% during encode and the encode will fail, stating that the application is low on memory and needs to restart. Once or twice the excessive RAM usage crashed my PC.
My PC is no slouch either:
32GB RAM
Intel Core i7 6700
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GPU
Windows 10 Pro 22H2
As a further testing measure, I loaded the same project on my laptop and had the exact same results (although the specs on the laptop aren't quite as good as my PC).
Has anyone else experienced this? What could cause this ridiculous amount of RAM usage during encode??
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