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Ali31406223u9vw
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November 26, 2023
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Premier Pro is very slow

  • November 26, 2023
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Despite investing in a new HP Omen laptop for enhanced performance in Premiere Pro and video editing, I continue to experience frustratingly slow playback. The sluggish playhead is hindering my editing process, and despite my efforts to optimize the performance, it remains a persistent issue. Considering the challenges, I'm contemplating canceling my paid plan for Premiere Pro and exploring DaVinci Resolve as an alternative, as I've heard it might offer a smoother editing experience. It's disheartening that even after numerous attempts, editing a three-minute video has become a time-consuming task.

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RjL190365
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November 27, 2023

In addition to what R Neil stated, most gaming laptops such as that HP Omen have their integrated CPU graphics permanently disabled during system manufacture, eliminating Quick Sync as an option for hardware H.264 or HEVC decoding. Only the discrete GPU will be used – and the discrete GPU is actually much slower at decoding video than integrated Intel CPU graphics ever was.

 

This alone makes purely gaming laptops a poor choice for content creation uses such as video editing – not much better than entry-level laptops with only integrated graphics.

R Neil Haugen
R Neil Haugen
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November 27, 2023

Ahhh ... that's distressing to know. I knew there were some things done specifically in drivers, sound files, and such to "enhance" gaming. I didn't know the crippled the processing for some things also!

 

I do know that my first editing rig was a custom build by a guy who was masterful at building beasts for stills editing and for gaming, and of course, both he and I thought that a monster gaming desktop would be a Very Good Thing. Especially for the comparitively modest price he could do for it.

 

But I was stunningly disappointed in the performance of that rig with either Premiere or Resolve. Or AfterEffects. SpeedGrade. And he was miffed I seemed to be questioning his design skills.

 

However, he did some further, very specfic study for NLE and other video post work needs, and realized ... what he was most concerned with in a gaming machine wasn't even useful for the most part for an NLE's needs.

 

He built another rig that was vastly more suited. And the first one got moved to a stills desk. As for Photoshop, it was a beast.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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RjL190365
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November 27, 2023

This is where my self-assembled PC is more appropriate for this task. Although my i7-12700K's current motherboard had integrated graphics disabled by default with a discrete GPU installed (that is, the iGPU is enabled only if no discrete graphics card is installed, with the iGPU Multi-Monitor set to "Disabled" by default), it is fairly easy to enable on most motherboards (unless one has one of the few ultra-high-end motherboards which do not have video outs on its I/O panel, and therefore require a discrete graphics card just to even work at all).

    R Neil Haugen
    R Neil Haugen
    Legend
    November 26, 2023

    Your post sadly doesn't include anything to help any of us troubleshoot your issues. 

     

    So ... precise data on your laptop's specs, for CPU/RAM/GPU, the drives in use, and how many of them; plus of course the media and effects used in your workflow.

     

    Also, as that's a gaming laptop by design ... they often come with things "to enhance the gaming experience" that slow down and/or interfere with NLE operations. Such as ... do not use the Nvidia 'game ready' drivers, use only the Studio GPU drivers. And if it's got a game-ready on it, replace that doing a "clean install" in the Nvidia options.

     

    Also, some of the gaming "enhancement" sound options can cause issues as they want to be in control of the system sound, and essentially wrestle Premiere for that part of the system. I know several pros who've written or talked of what they went through to turn a gaming laptop into a decent editing rig. 

    Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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