Seemingly out of no where, Premiere started to freeze and give me the “Not responding” message. It seems to be on a 20-30 minute timer before it crashes, and has nothing to do with how much I’m editing. It’s crashing on 1hr+ projects, and 30 second clips. It runs fine prior the the crashes. My PC is running perfectly fine aside from Premiere. I have tried:Restarting my PC Updating Premiere, Media Encoder, Windows, and my drivers Clearing up storage and %temp% folders Disabled all apps on startup Cleared media cache on Premiere Increased RAM allocation for Premiere Specs:Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor (3.59 GHz) Installed RAM: 64.0 GB Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (12 GB) Storage: 633 GB of 2.73 TB used I’ll be happy to provide any more info! Thank you in advance.

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Premiere keeps crashing ever since updating to 26.2.2

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May 5, 2026
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Seemingly out of no where, Premiere started to freeze and give me the “Not responding” message. It seems to be on a 20-30 minute timer before it crashes, and has nothing to do with how much I’m editing. It’s crashing on 1hr+ projects, and 30 second clips. It runs fine prior the the crashes. My PC is running perfectly fine aside from Premiere.

I have tried:

Restarting my PC
Updating Premiere, Media Encoder, Windows, and my drivers
Clearing up storage and %temp% folders
Disabled all apps on startup
Cleared media cache on Premiere
Increased RAM allocation for Premiere

Specs:

Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor (3.59 GHz)
Installed RAM: 64.0 GB
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (12 GB)
Storage: 633 GB of 2.73 TB used

I’ll be happy to provide any more info! Thank you in advance.

S

Sumeet Kumar Choubey

Community Manager

Hi username.44556,

Sorry about the poor experience. We will get it checked. Are you getting any crash reports before it becomes unresponsive? Are the media files saved locally or in an external/network drive? Are there any effects applied to the clips in the timeline? We’re here to help, just need more info.

Thanks,
Sumeet

username.44556Author

Participant

Hi, thank you.

I’m not getting any crash reports. It gives me the “Not responding” message, then is extremely laggy whenever it loads back, and then proceeds to eat up 90% of my CPU in Task Manager. So it’s not technically crashing, but it might as well be. When I close and reopen it, it works for about 20 minutes and then goes back into “Not responding.”

The media files are all saved locally.

There are many effects applied to the audio clips, like reverb, equalizer, hard limiter, etc. There is minimal video edits, and all of the audio editing worked fine up until a couple days ago.