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briantaborne
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January 22, 2024
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Extremely Laggy Timeline on 24.1

  • January 22, 2024
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Hello,

 

I'm running on a 2020 iMac and just recently updated to macOS Sonoma. Before I updated, I was on the latest version of Ventura and Premiere (24.1) was running smoothly then.

 

However, when I updated to Sonoma, now Premiere doesn't run like it should. The timeline, and even the VU meters, are both very laggy upon playback even though the video in the program monitor runs smoothly. Even zooming in and out on the timeline is borderline unresponsive. 

 

I know this isn't a video codec issue because I'm using high res ProRes 422 proxies and it still acts like this. Even when I just have audio on the timeline with no video in the project whatsoever, I still get the same laggy timeline and VU meters (not as bad as with video, but still annoyingly laggy).

 

Again, everything was fine when I was on Ventura, but when I updated to Sonoma, Premiere started acting like this. 

 

I found that when I version back to Premiere v23.6.2 it doesn't have a problem. Only v24.1 acts like this. I'm sure this has to be a bug of some kind because my machine is more than capable of handling the type of video I'm working with as it's been able to handle it for years now. Is this a known issue with a fix coming at some point?

 

Computer specs

2020 27-inch iMac

CPU: Intel 10-core i9

GPU: AMD Radeon Pro 5700XT 16GB

RAM: 64GB

OS version: Sonoma 14.2.1

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    Kartika Rawat
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    Kartika RawatCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    February 24, 2024

    Hi briantaborne!

    Sorry about the frustration. Does it happen with a specific project? Can you try Premiere Pro updating to the latest version and see if that helps?

     

    Let us know.

    Thanks,

    KR

     

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    briantaborneAuthor
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    February 25, 2024

    Thank you for responding. To answer your questions, no this issue doesn't happen with a specific project. It's unanimous across the board on all projects. I just updated to Premiere 24.2.1 thinking maybe there would be a fix, but there isn't. 

     

    I've attached a screen recording showing the issue I've been having. Notice how when I scrub the playhead towards the end of the timeline, it gets very laggy. When I go to the end of the video and play it, the VU meters are lagging vs. when I play the video at the beginning, it's smooth.

     

    As you can see, yes I have proxies turned on and attached, and my machine is more than capable of handling this footage as it has been in the past (refer to my computer specs in my original post). 

     

    As I described before, this started happening when I updated my computer from Ventura to Sonoma (Since my original post I've updated to 14.3 and the Premiere issue is still here.)

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