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Premiere Pro using too much memory

Forum|Forum|4 years ago
November 21, 2021
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Hello. I have problem with Premiere Pro (v 22.0.0 Build 169) on my MacBook Pro M1 with 16GB RAM.

After 30 minutes of work Premiere Pro crashes and consumes all of my memory. In setting I have set Optimize rendering for memory and allowed maximum 13 GB of RAM for Premiere Pro.

However, Premiere Pro uses more memory, often 50-60 GB. So MacBook is swapping all memory from SSD. Any solutions?

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Kevin-Monahan

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Kevin

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Noah263868074q6z

Participant

I am just now starting to have this issue.

Does anyone have a definitive fix?

I am on M1 macbook pro with the most recent version of premiere.

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mark24419806uulc

Participant

Did you ever find a solution for this, Tape Production? I'm having the same exact issue with premiere pro 2020 on apple M1 Monterey

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TheBreeze21

Known Participant

In my case, it was a corrupt preference setting that kept getting synced down using Adobe Sync. Once I turned this off in adobe preferences (workspaces, preference sync etc) and cleared out all settings related to Premiere, it worked without issues. Here are the notes I took of all the locations these preferences live. Delete them all and reboot, then reload Premiere and you should be all set! Good luck.

https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/cc-cleaner-tool-installation-problems.html

Adobe extensions path (delete extensions)

/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CEP/extensions

/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/Plug-ins/7.0/MediaCore

Shft + Option to clear plugin cache

Setting Preferences

https://helpx.adobe.com/in/premiere-pro/using/preferences.html

Click on finder

Click on Go->Go to folder

Type ~/Library

Preferences->Adobe->Premiere Pro

Rename Premiere Pro to Premiere Pro.old

Documents->Adobe->Premiere Pro

Rename Premiere Pro to Premiere Pro.old

Library->Application Support->Adobe->Common->Plugins->7.0->MediaCore

Library/caches/Adobe

Library/Preference

Library Audio Plugins

Kevin-Monahan

Community Manager

Hi TheBreeze21,

Thank you for detailing how you terminated the problem you had with soaring memory. I have heard that Creative Cloud re-syncing bad preferences might be causing problems for at least one other user. I see a little weirdness along these lines with specific personal projects I am working on. I'll try your steps to see if my issue might resolve too. If so, I'll certainly file a bug on your behalf.

Thanks again,

Kevin

Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community & Engagement Strategist – Pro Video and Audio

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TheBreeze21

Known Participant

I am having this same issue on my Intel MacBook Pro. Memory increases randomly after an hour of so if editing, then starts using swap and eventually tunning out of application memory. This issue is unnerving. A7siii footage, Dropbox and Google drive are not running in background. Adobe Case ADB-22937837-L9X8 CRM:03988000005050

Kartika Rawat

Community Manager

Hi there! Sorry to hear that. Can you try increasing the amount of memory that the operating system uses to achieve a 50% balance between Adobe and other applications/OS? and then restart Premiere Pro.

Let us know how it goes.

Thanks,

Kartika

TAPE ProductionAuthor

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I tried to install Premiere Pro - BETA version. And in Beta is memory usage allright. In iddle Beta version uses 3,38 GB of memory. During playing playback it is about 7 GB of memory, during render (4K 4.2.2 10bit 60 sec footage) 13 GB (which is set in settings). After render, memory usage skip to 3,38GB.

Adobe, please fix this in full release!