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Participant
April 30, 2020
Question

Massive slow-down when inputting lots of text into Essential Graphics rolling title

  • April 30, 2020
  • 23 replies
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Hi there,

 

We're working with a client to put together a large list of names in a rolling credits over a simple JPEG image. The list of names, coming from a 17 page word doc, has been inserted into Premiere's essential graphics system. With such a long document, the program becomes highly unstable and largely unusable when making minor changes to formatting and placement of text.

Does anyone have any experience getting the program to pick up the speed a bit when working with such a large amount of text in Essential Graphics? This seems like it should be a simple thing to render easily while remaining editable, but I'm looking at delays of around 5-6 seconds after a single click on a character, thus making any changes to a document this size a monumental waste of time. Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

My hardware is as follows:
iMac Pro (2017)

Processor: 3.2 GHz Intel Xeon W

Memory: 32 GB 2666 DDR4

Graphics: Radeon Pro Vega 56 8GB

23 replies

Legend
July 26, 2023

DJP2014, good post.  It's about getting the job done and if workarounds are necessary, that's the way to go.  Premiere is a very complex program and sometimes things become too much for it to handle particularly if you don't have a top of the line workstation.    Wondering if a proxy workflow would help speed things up.  If you're working with an mpeg format, and generate proxies in a mezzanine format, might speed things up.  

DJP2014
Inspiring
July 26, 2023

Yeah, having the same issue adjusting the position of text in a 2min sequence with lots of captions.

 

Not ideal but I find disabling all the text in the seqeuence brings back the speed. Quick way to do this: Find> Effects> Text, then disable (reenable just the text you want to work with)

Participating Frequently
July 10, 2025

Sorry, I'm lost here.  You say go to Find > Effects > Text , then disable

Not understanding what you mean by Find first of all.  Effects tab, I am looking for Text,  nope.   

Pretend like I am a new user.    Also @Michael Grenadier do you have any tutorials for how to get over 2 thousand names in Photoshop and to keep them aligned on a canvas?  Would probably like that option better personally.  I am familiar with Photoshop over the past 15+ years,  but I only work with images and never long text in a verticle format to export as image for scrolling etc.   

BTW, this is 2025 and this issue still persist with Adobe,  lets go for 2030 next!  

DJP2014
Inspiring
July 10, 2025

 then disable by right clicking on the selected text clips

Participating Frequently
June 14, 2023

I am using premiere 2022 legacy title, but during edits sometimes close with critical error. I think that's why they removed it in 2023, but not fixed Essential graphics yet

Legend
June 14, 2023

as I have suggested, build the title roll in photoshop and then bring the file into premiere and animate it.  If you need to make any changes, select the clip in the timeline, and control click and choose edit in photoshop.  make your changes and save in photoshop and the changes are immediately updated in Premiere.   This has been my workflow for years and it's rock solid.   I'm not a programmer, but what you're asking for may not be simple to implement in Premiere.   

Known Participant
June 14, 2023

This has been a persistent bug for years now. What do I need to do to get Adobe to pay attention to this. Happy to send over a sample project and video evidence of just how slow and usable it becomes.

Participating Frequently
May 2, 2023

@Georgii247500100148 Well, I am currently using Premiere Pro 2021/2022 with Legacy Title, when doing this. Its only convinient option for me, as well Adobe Team no care this problem for 3 years+
Legacy Title a bit buggy (can be sometime bug which close program) in Premiere 2022, planning to test it in 2021 or 2020 Premiere. But when exporting, even if you have 100 pages+ it will export in 5 min for me (rtx 3090 13900k), while Essential Graphics would do that in 1-2 hours minimum, and possible even not finish (freeze in middle)

Participant
April 28, 2023

This happens with ANY sequence which has lots of titles or captions inside.

I have twenty 1-minute clips on timeline, hey, it is nothing!

Generted CAPTIONS for them, and everything became dead now.

M2 MAX, 32 GB RAM lol

have to put them in separate sequences... crazy

Participant
April 13, 2023

Same issue with text in graphics... Happened intermittently, did some media cache deleting, some reboots, allocating more memory to Premiere than other apps, but the issue remains... Very slow to process text, or to modify it. Very annoying issue!

Participating Frequently
April 4, 2023

I think we need create new thread, cause this was moved from forum 2020 year, and nobody see this thread and not give upvote, cause default sort is by latest. Maybe will do it those days.
Also possible that is very hard to solve this issue if this is engine failure of Premiere Pro (or something like that), cause I have speak before with Adobe Team using e-mail, and was in work, but then they stop responding...

Participant
March 28, 2023

Have the exact same issue. 200+ patreon names to be added to footage. Exporting with the text graphic takes 100+ hours (estimated time remaining). Exporting the same video without a text credit roll takes 1 hour.