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Lucas23457421kse0
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March 6, 2022
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3.5ghz MacBook Pro with 16gb RAM and it lags and drops frames badly while playing back in Premier?

  • March 6, 2022
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After the latest update Premiere became completely unusable because I cannot review the video and edit at the same time. I turned the playback quality all the way down to 1/4th, and it is set to square pixels. I have a 2tb scratch disk with an internal 1tb that is 50% empty. I'm running Premiere by itself, and I'm only working on little 3min or less clips so I don't think I should have to adjust my memory settings. Please don't tell me you guys are throttling anything that isn't running an M1 chip. 

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    Sumeet_Kumar_ChoubeyCommunity Manager
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    March 6, 2022

    Hi Lucas23457421kse0,

     

    We're sorry about the poor experience. We can get this checked. Let us know more about the type of media files you are working with (format/codec, frame rate & frame size) & the effects applied.

     

    Thanks,

    Sumeet

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    Lucas23457421kse0Author
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    March 6, 2022

    Frame size: 1920 X 1080

    Timebase: 23.976 fps

     

    Cross dissolve is applied. I am importing still images right now, but its just jpeg images and mp3 audio.

     

    I just downgraded from Monterey to Big Sur so I wiped my whole internal harddrive drive and reinstalled everything. I also rolled Premiere back to the 2021 LTS version and it is still doing this. I've used this for years, and only recently has it started doing this. Video playback in Final Cut Pro is perfect so it isn't hardware. I have a project due tomorrow so I'm just going to use Final Cut and not Premiere. It is supposed to be turned in as a Premiere project, but I'm going to get documentation from Adobe about the issue.

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    Lucas23457421kse0Author
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    March 16, 2022

    After several attempts to solve this problem I bought a Mac Mini with an M1 chip that actually has a slightly slower benchmark than my 3.5ghz Intel Macbook Pro and it isn't doing it. I don't really feel I should have to have had to go that far. But the Silicon version of Premiere Pro isn't doing this with the same .prproj file and the same amount of physical RAM and allocated RAM Both are on clean installs of Monterey. Interesting. I want to know what Adobe has to say about this. I just had to buy a new computer on top of the one I have so I can do my final video editing assignments for my college classes.

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