Do Macs just suck? Sluggish on M3 Max

[benw21511520]

Do Macs just suck or is Premier just not working well with Mac. Upgrade from an old Mac to this 36GB M3 Max MacBook Pro and it still bogs down on one 4k video playback with Corner Pin enabled at 1/4 playback resolution. Like it can't get past it, fans start running wild and I cant adjust the corner pin as it takes about 10 seconds to load each adjustment. So annoying. I dont want to be told I need more RAM it's a CPU load and I dont want to be told that a certain codec or format might slow it down. Its a 5 second 4k piece of footage from a Sony a7s3 - it should not be sluggish on a $5000 2024 machine

[Ishan Y]

Hey,

Sorry for the poor experience. Do you see this issue with the most recent version of Premiere Pro? Please share a sample file with me through a private message if possible. We can test it to check what could be going wrong. 

Thanks,

Ishan

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[Carlos Ziade]

try to change Sequence Settings -> Video Previews -> Preview File Format -> QuickTime

Codec -> Apple ProRes or GoPro Cineform instead of H.264