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CC 2020 SUPER LAGGY

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November 6, 2019
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I am trying to do work in premiere 2020 and its super laggy i cant even edit a video because it was so laggy, is anyone else having these issues?!

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Sam,

I had previously warned other users about mismatching the relative performance of the GPU with regards to that of the CPU. Many of the users that I responded to - and I am currently guilty of that myself - combined a relatively powerful CPU with a relative weakling of a GPU. Your system is clearly the opposite: That GPU is clearly overqualified for the CPU that you're using. Premiere Pro really works best when the relative performances of both the CPU and the GPU are closely matched. However, that RTX 2080 Ti significantly outperforms that i7-9700K, making that build just a waste of money as configured.

Still, that does not explain the fact that Premiere Pro itself could have been better-engineered than the half-baked agglomeration that it currently is.

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hikaru00007

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this ... Godforsaken 2020 update .

pffftt... like a joke.

everything went south and laggy . freezing too !

just revert to CC 2018. it's stable and much more convenient.

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corbettj25089153

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Im in the same boat. How are you converting 2020 projects to be used on 2019 or earlier?

andrewb70075480

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There isn't a driect way as far as I can tell. I think your best option is to simplify the project as much as possible (don't use a tonne of channels) and create an XML. Open that XML in PP2019 and cross your fingers.

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jcourtial

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SAme here. I don't understand what happened it worked fine for a while, now I get a 1-2 seconds lag for every action i take on the timeline. Like trim or cut, I have to wait 2 secs for premiere to freeze and come back again. Interestingly, as soon as I open premiere, it eats 99% of my RAM (i have 32GB). Adn it stays that way whatever I do, even if i don't use it.

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jcourtial

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and I'm working with proxies as well.

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jcourtial

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I'm desperatly trying to finish editing a project and this is just turning into a nightmare. One day editing is turning into 3-4 at this pace. So angry.

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cwoodard95

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Yes, same with me. Super slow and really hard to do my job. And it's been having all sorts of glitches. Sometimes I render and it adds all of these weird blue and green highlights to my footage. I hate it. Going back to 2019 (which I never had a problem with) until they fix it.

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jax1079

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Has a fix been posted for this yet for Mac OS Catalina? It's 12/6, and whatever is causing this problem just hit me hard. It was working fine until this week, and now my timeline is unusable. There is almost a minute delay between clicks and response, much less playback. This is unacceptable.

andrewb70075480

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I can confirm I am having the exact same issue. Just got a new Mac Mini. 64GB ram, 6-core i7 processor. This is insane. Completly unuseable for 4K footage.

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mugiboiii

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Just wanted to weigh in as well and say that 2020 is ridiculously laggy to the point of unusability. At this point, it is hampering and interfering with my work, and I want to know how adobe is working to rectify this. Do better.

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zackefeller

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YES! Looks like Adobe prematurely released a buggy and laggy AF update that has made premiere pro practically unusable. It's ridiculous, even on a fully specced out machine with a core i9, 64gb RAM and RTX 2080 it's still choppier than a bad day at sea.

I use the Adobe suite at work because of its adaptability and compatibility, but recently it's been an absolute crap shoot.

Thank goodness I still have a macbook lying around to use Final Cut with. Hopefully they fix this soon cause deadlines are piling up and premiere is only getting slower.

tsbii

Participating Frequently

Yes - I have given up on any new versions and reverted back to an old Windows 7 image with the 2018 12.0 edition that isn't as good as 2017 but still lightyears better than 2020 - its a no brainer - I am switching to Davinci Resolve for a one time fee of $299 - Adobe has lost it and I'm done wasting my time on them period.

If you need to revert a file to an older version:

Use 7-zip to extract the .prproj file

(Rename your file to .zip on a MAC and unzip it)

Open the extracted file in Notepad, Wordpad, (TextEdit or Atom on a MAC) or similar

In the fourth set at the top of the file:

Change XX to just 1:

Save the file then recompress it with 7-zip (or Keka on a MAC) using the gzip format at default settings and change the extension back to .prproj on the newly compressed file.
This will allow you to open the file in any prior version but beware that missing features used will result in errors on opening the file but it still works of course and is better than the alternative of continuing with 2020 (or 2019 for that matter really, 2017 is still the smoothest then 2018 12.0, on W7 here obviously, W10 running any Premiere version has been kinda disappointing for me).

pimm38677451

Participating Frequently

I've had contact with Adobe's customer service and they told me to do the following (on Windows).

First, end all Adobe programs via Task Manager (I ended everything with Adobe or CC in it).
Then press Windows + R, type "appdata" and go to the folder Roaming > Adobe, change the folder Premiere Pro to Premiere Pro.old.
Delete the folders Media Cache (AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Common\Media Cache) and Media Cache Files (AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Common\Media Cache Files)
Now go to This Computer > Documents > Adobe and change the folder Premiere Pro to Premiere Pro.old.
Open PP, create a new project and name it Test (or whatever). Now go to Project Settings > General > Renderer and choose Software Only.

I know PP is now not using the video card, but I did get a smooth playback. After setting the Renderer back to CUDA I did not notice any dropped frames. I do have to say I did not test this for very long, but for the time being it worked for me. Try it and don't forget to delete the old folders.

LeddyGee

Known Participant

Thanks for the suggestions, I tried it and it seems to be helping however only time will tell. I also deleted all files in the Media Cache folders as well:

AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Common\Media Cache

AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Common\Media Cache Files

pimm38677451

Participating Frequently

Great, I forgot those. That was also part of their solution.

mg0909

Participant

I'm experiencing the same thing. Simple tasks like clicking a clip and waiting for it to highlight, nudging and trimming clips in timeline, etc. There's about a full second delay.

My specs:

late 2015 iMac Retina 5K, 27-in

4 GHz intel core i7

32 GB 1867 MHz DDR3

AMD Radeon R9 M395X 4GB

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CilentCipha

Participating Frequently

I wish it was only a second. I have no preview of videofiles (simple .mov files, nothing fancy) and it's lagging so hard it's absolutely unusable.

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shanesmaneAuthor

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what are we going to do?! Adobe still hasn't fixed it, and i really dont want to go to final cut. I havent upgraded to catlina i wonder if that would help

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CilentCipha

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Same problem here.

Win 10

i7 7700k

32gb Ram

NVIDIA GTX 1070

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