CPU and RAM maxing out during rendering, rendering before export causes an error or crashes

Report · Dec 30, 2023

I'm doing some mild edits to Twitch VODs before putting them up on YouTube. It's always been slow because of how long the videos are, typically right around 4 hours, but it wasn't until the last few that it's been a problem. Up until the current one, I was able to solve the problem by clearing the media cache, but now that's not helping. If I try to do a direct export, it runs fine up until about 25%, then it steadily slows down until the estimated time remaining starts increasing, all while using anywhere from 90% to 100% of my CPU and RAM. Sometimes it uses upwards of about 45% of my GPU, sometimes it doesn't, I can never predict when it will do so, and using it doesn't seem to help. If I try to render before exporting, it throws a frame creation error at me. If I just export, it keeps going until it crashes, and the crash is so bad that it very nearly takes the entire system down with it. I usually have to go into task manager and restart Windows Explorer. I've tried doing this in an entirely new project, I've tried cleaning the media cache, I've reinstalled Premiere Pro, and I don't know what to do at this point. I've been scrounging around looking at videos and forum threads for new things to try, and so far nothing has helped. Thoughts?

Report · Dec 30, 2023

Every one of these pro apps is coded to use the system and available hardware differently. So depending on a bunch of factors, one may do better on your system for X than another. And on someone else's rig, it's reversed. Same media, but different hardware.

I use Resolve quite a bit also, as I work for/with/teach pro colorists. It's got a much better grading setup as of course it started as a like $20,000 grading app. That has had editing/audio/fusion grafted into it. I teach colorists how to work in Premiere when they have to for some reason.

On my desktop, Premiere and Resolve work quite well, both of them. On my 4-year old Acer laptop, Pr24.x runs great, but Resolve is such a dog I removed it. Others have opposite experience, which is to be expected.

They're tools. Use what works. And in general, Premiere still has a bunch of things like number of assignable keyboard shorts, text editing, multicam, and on, that are still far 'deeper' than Resolve. Which keeps adding things of course.

Report · Dec 30, 2023

I just tried again with an older version of Premiere Pro, a version that DID work before for these videos. Still a no go. It's expensive, but at this point, the studio version of DaVinci Resolve seems like the way to go for me. I kinda prefer the Premiere Pro interface because I'm sort of used to it now, but I need something that I can rely on working.