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marxviper
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June 19, 2013
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Adobe Premiere CC slow in response

  • June 19, 2013
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Hi,

I recently upgarded to Adobe Premiere Pro CC and I notice that it is very slow in response and there is like 10 seconds lag for every step I do. I notice my computer goes up to 30 percent of workload. The problem arises when I am going from one sequence to another sequence, it lags or copy something in a sequence and then it lags. I have been using CC for 4 months and I did not have a problems with CS6. But this really annoys me.

My computer specs:

CPU i7-920 3.6gHz OC

48 GB of RAM @ 1466Mhz

Quadro K5000 with latest drivers

5x2TB at RAID 5

250gb OS SSD around 140 free space

120gb SSD - Around 40 free.

My cache drive was 120gB SSD, even I change the cache drive to RAID5 drives, it doesn't make a difference.

Now, when I export to render to Adobe media encoder, it takes 10sec. It used to take a sec to do that with CS6.

Is there something I could change in the settings that would make premiere pro faster in response?

I am looking forward for your reply.

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    Abdul_Majid
    Known Participant
    June 18, 2016

    Hi, I had the same problem - resolved by deleting the PREVIEW files, closing and re-opening the project.

    Also, check your SEQUENCE settings - Try changing you EDITING_MODE from, say for example, "ARRI Cinema" to "AVCHD 1080p" (changing the sequence settings will remove the preview files)

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    Zbyszko Rylec
    Known Participant
    August 25, 2015

    I had the same issue on PP CC(2015). Big projects (timelines) started to be slower and slower in reaction. Especially title clips had terrible lags while trimming or moving. I've exported xml an opened it in CC and it works great. After that i turned of CC cloud application and killed all adobe process i could find in Activity Monitor, CC 2015 started to work as it should.

    davidk67614520
    davidk67614520
    Participant
    August 15, 2015

    Same problem! i had a windows 7 computer, then got windows 10. it wont even let me play clips, edit clips, or even close out without a HUGE lag. PLEASE HELP. i just downloaded it too.

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    Anonymous
    August 3, 2016

    I had the lag issue specially when scaling clips in the effect controls panel, just reviewed my cpu overclock settings and lowered them, now everything goes smooth.

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    mikkell1964873
    Participant
    July 18, 2015

    I had the same problem, and I tried to delite the rendered files, this fix the problem!!

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    lindsayn66932736
    Participant
    June 22, 2015

    Turning off duplicate frame detection resolved the issue immediately for me. 

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      Benny Baum
      Participant
      July 2, 2015

      Thanks! That just fixed the problem for me as well.

      avided
      avided
      Participant
      June 13, 2015

      Not sure if this applies to anyone else but I too was having a sluggish response when loading a clip into the viewer. Something like 2 or 3 secs before it would appear and be allowed to play. I forgot I had Scopelink enabled in my Preferences Playback - Video Devices. Disable - plays fine.

      Metsadah
      Metsadah
      Participant
      June 10, 2015

      Having the same problem. Adobe premiere is extreme sluggish when I start adding effects like film convert or other grading stuff (luts). waiting for 5 seconds for every little change. Driving me crazy.

      Im on a max specced imac late 2012

      nic wooley
      nic wooley
      Participant
      April 7, 2015

      (CC 2014) I rendered audio in nested sequences and that is what worked for me. lag went from 4-6 seconds to 0.

      ShevaPro
      ShevaPro
      Participating Frequently
      November 17, 2014

      The same bug with CC 2014. I added Audio Effects to 100+ clips (2,5 hour video) and Premiere starts to read all of the files in the project before rendering a frame. One cut equals 5 minuts of waiting Premiere does something useless. The problem appeard suddenly after rebooting PC. I do not think that it is a fix to turn all of the effects off. Meanwhile, I have lost the client and 2 weeks of my life. Thank you, Adobe.

        Kidsnd274
        Kidsnd274
        Participant
        November 1, 2014

        I'm also having some problems with Premiere Pro. Importing a project would make RAM usage go to 96% (I have 16GB RAM) and after a while it would drop to around 4GB Usage. (I assume it finished loading). But making edits and playing playback is very laggy and sluggish. All I've done to the video is cuts and video transitions. No filters or effects yet.

        Sometimes Premiere Pro would also crash, the application would go unresponsive totally, and I would have to kill the tasks and restart the project. A pain since some of my edits have not been saved quite a few times. Anyone knows the reason?

        IvanTheEditor
        IvanTheEditor
        Inspiring
        November 18, 2014

        Wow... And here I am, thinking I was the only one dealing with this issue. I moved from my "old and buggy" FCP7 (an application last updated in 2009) to the "amazingly fast" Premiere CC 2014 about a month ago, in the hopes of finding a better editing application. Apparently, most of us get to a certain point in the project where we just give up because it's unbearable to edit any further or simply because it won't let us do anything to the project anymore. So many people complaining, so many days of work wasted, so much hype about how amazing Premiere is... and here I am, looking at this thing that barely moves, more like crawls in comparison to a 2009 application, that won't even allow me to create keyboard shortcuts to my most common effects and transitions used, and I'm just wishing I hadn't spent a whole month learning that new software because there is no way I'm going to be using it in the future. No offense to Adobe but this was just a slap in the face on their part! I'm hoping I get a better experience with AVID... here goes another month of learning a new software! Wish me luck!

          Kevin J. Monahan Jr.
          Community Manager
          Kevin J. Monahan Jr.Community Manager
          Community Manager
          November 18, 2014

          Hi Ivan,

          I'm sorry you're having trouble, but there's something wrong with your system. I am having none of these issues. If you care to let us help, let us know more about your system and media.

          Also, did you update a project from 8.0 to 8.1? That has caused some issues for some customers.

          Thanks,

          Kevin

          Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community and Engagement Strategist – Adobe Pro Video and Audio
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