Premiere 2023 Incredibly Sluggish vs 2021: What Gives?

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Greetings all,Trivia question--but I found the same nasty surprise as everyone else when I tried to start using the 2022 apps, including Premiere, namely that the 2022 versions aren't anywhere near as fast as the 2021 versions. I don't quite know how to quantify Premiere's performance, but as one example the GUI is incredibly slow when it comes to trying to move the slider bar below the timeline or change its size. This is a project file that dates back to Premiere 2020, so I can confirm it worked like a dream with Premiere 2020 and 2021. Then with 2022, the problem started, and then with 2023 it got even worse. (Again, relative terms I know, but I don't know how to get more objective performance data from Premiere.) I'm doing all this on the same hardware (I have the 2021, 2022, and 2023 apps all installed next to each other), and it's on an MSI Raider GE76 with an i9-11980HK with 64GB RAM and a geForce RTX 3080 laptop GPU. So that leaves two questions--one, does anybody know what's causing this massive speed loss? And two, has anybody cracked the code on how to get 2023 to perform at the same speed standard as 2021? I'm missing out on a ton of new features and I know it, but I can't switch up to the 2023 apps because the project files they make aren't backwards-compatible with 2021, and there's no way I can suffer this kind of performance loss.

R Neil Haugen · Answer

One of the frustrating things is that performance per user is all over the freaking place. It used to be far easier to troubleshoot ... what's your OS, hardware, media, effects? Oh ... change this.

For example ... my 24-core Ryzen 3960X w 128GB-RAM and 2080Ti screams along in 2023. Another user posted here a while back with an almost identical rig (probably also built by Puget) ... and his was getting total crud. Even with similar media.

No freaking clue why.

Even my 4-year old Acer Predator Triton laptop, wth the cute little 2080Ti "laptop" version GPU, is doing spiffy with Pr2023, better than it did with either 2021 or 2022.

But other folks with new higher powered laptops ... aren't. Again, no clue.

And this is happening with Resolve also. I use that daily, and work with/for/teach pro colorists. Performance for many is great, others ... gotta stay back a version or two. Resolve runs great on my desktop, totally DOGS on my laptop, so bad I uninstalled it. Why? Good question.

One thing ... you mention working projects forward. There are two things that can help with that.

The first ... ALWAYS when migrating a project to a new version, DUMP THE CACHE

FILES before running that in the new version.

Second ... sometimes creating a new project in the new version is the best start. Then from that project's MediaBrowser panel, navigate to/click on the old project file. Now right-click and import/ingest the contents of that project file.

Neil

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