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beshoyesk
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December 27, 2018
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Laptop Used to Edit Fine - Now Very Laggy

  • December 27, 2018
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Hi all,

I have a 2.5 year old Acer E-15 laptop that I use to edit videos.

Specs:

8 GB DDR4 Ram

Intel i5 6200U

Dedicated graphics card (Geforce 940MX) and an Intel 520 Graphics card

245 GB SSD and 500 GB SATA

For simple videos that required cutting, speed ramping, music, text, it would work fine. However, I had to stop editing a video yesterday because it was extremely laggy to the point I couldn't even see what I was doing. The quality of the video was higher than what I usually edit (it was 4k) so that probably has something to do with it, but in the past even those videos didn't lag to that degree.

I tried lowering the preview quality (the lowest it can go is 1/4, not sure why it can't go lower) and cleared as much storage as I possibly could off the harddrives.

Is it simply just time to upgrade to a better laptop?


Thanks!

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Correct answer Carlos Ziade

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Carlos ZiadeCommunity Expert
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December 27, 2018

at least 16GB Ram required to edit 4K footage

anyway, try cleaning your media cache and render files and see if it makes any difference though I don't think it will improve this much.... yeah time to upgrade (unfortunately)

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beshoyeskAuthor
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December 27, 2018

Ok, I'll try that. I don't know how but I don't want to waste your time so I'm sure I can find a tutorial on it.

Is it just ram that I should look out for while editing? I had a friend plug in a 16gb ram into my laptop to see if it would make a difference a month back and it didn't really help. We concluded from that that the processor needs to be better.

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Carlos ZiadeCommunity Expert
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December 27, 2018

yeah sure, if you are on Premiere Pro 2019, then your processor better be an i7 generation 7 and up.

to clean your media cache go to preferences - media cache - delete unused (pp 2019)

to delete the preview files go to sequence - delete render files

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