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New Premiere version using over 100% CPU

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
October 30, 2022
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Hello, the version of Premiere running on my edit machine recently auto updated to the 2023 version and I've been having a complete nightmare with it since. It randomly completely maxes out the CPU (currently at 155% looking at the Activity Monitor) and nothing will play back. It's nothing to do with hardware (brand new top spec Mac Studio) and I can't find any kind of fix. I'm literally about to have a panic attack as I have a major project due to be delivered to a client in a week which is currently looking impossible if this problem persists. This might finally be the straw that makes me give up on Premiere and go elsewhere!

Any suggestions?

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BNC10a

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I had this same problem on my system. Try turning off "High Quality Playback" and see if that helps. Yes, it's opposite of what they had been doing in 2022, but I did it this morning and it fixed my playback issues. You can leave playback set to Full resolution though.

Maybe this will help.

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Hutch Harris

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Absolute legend, thanks for posting. Confirming this worked for me; Premiere's idle CPU usage (not rendering/playing anything back, just having a timeline open & paused) went from 90-400% down to 45-55%.
To your point though, I'm pretty sure I specifically enabled "High Quality Playback" to solve some other issue in the past... fingers crossed it doesn't bite me.

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BNC10a

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Hutch,

Just be sure to check your color on the scopes. I seem to recall a difference when switching off "High Quality playback" or changing resolutions - I can't remember which. If you do see a change, you'll have to remember to set your playback to what it origially was (HQ and full res) before color correcting. Hope that helps.

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Warren Heaton

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Sorry to hear that you are having issues with Premiere Pro.

Did the prior version work as expected? If so, have you reinstalled it?

It's common to disable "Auto-update" as well as disable "Remove Old Versions" in Creative Cloud Desktop.

CprescottAuthor

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Hi Warren, thanks for your reply. I've now disabled the auto-update feature although unfortunately not soon enough for to have updated and for me to continuing to work on the project for a day in the new 23.0.0 version so now the project won't reopen in the older version. The project is a massive feature length film and as such I'm struggling to export as an XML but I'm also reluctant to use that as a work around as I don't want it to affect the structure at all. The project worked flawlessly up until this point.

Ann Bens

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Ann Bens

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CprescottAuthor

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I asked for help? I gave my problem and asked if anyone had any suggestions unless I missed something?

CprescottAuthor

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To repeat again. My machine recently auto-updated to Premiere Pro 2023 (so 23.0.0) and it's now randomly maxing out my CPU (currently at 155%). It's a brand new Mac Studio (top spec) so nothing to do with the hardware. Any suggestions?

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