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John Deetz23
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May 19, 2025
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Extremely slow timeline performance

  • May 19, 2025
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Hey all, I just finished working on a long project and my timeline is at about 50 minutes of media.  I rendered and exported my project but now have to go back in and make more edits but the timeline is lagging extremely bad.  Hitting play takes a good 5-10 seconds to actually play and really doing anything in the project is extremely slow.  Same effects I use in all my other projects, Lumetri Color, a few audio plugins that have been rendered already, and just a few transition effects.  I've tried a new sequence, new project, clearing cache, and just about every performance setting but same issues happen.  I edit in Premiere every day and never have any issues like this.  This project was much longer than my normal work but don't think that should really make that big of a difference with my system.  I've tried opening other projects and they all run like normal.  Any help would greatly appreciated!

 

System Specs:

Windows 11

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16 Core

32GB RAM

Nvidia RTX 3080

Seagate 2TB External SSD

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Carlos ZiadeCommunity Expert
Community Expert
May 20, 2025

did you try to update your Nvidia to the latest studio driver from Nvidia's website?

try to reset the preferences and check your renderer if it is hardware acceleration or software only...

what type of footage are you working with?

are you editing on an external drive or local drives? try both to narrow down the culprit...

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John Deetz23Author
Participant
May 20, 2025

All drivers are updated and using hardware acceleration.  Just working with 1080p 30FPS footage like I normally do.  I am editing on an external 2TB SSD which I use for all my projects and never have any issues.

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John Deetz23Author
Participant
May 20, 2025

One thing I did notice was, while having the project open, task manager is showing my system RAM being maxed out but when I open any other project that isn't as long it's only using about half of the RAM.  Not sure why that would be happening on one project and not the others.  Can't imagine that it being longer in length would make that much of a difference?

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