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Editing a text layer in Premiere causes extreme slowdown / lag

Community Beginner ,
Dec 17, 2023 Dec 17, 2023

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Starting a new thread for this – replying to the older thread ( https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-bugs/premiere-pro-working-with-text-insanely-slow-with-n...)  doesn't seem to work, perhaps because I've included a video in my reply.

 

I'm experiencing extreme slowdown while adding 1 layer of text to 1 layer of video on a longform video project. I've have more or less had the same issue across every Premiere project for years now – and I'm sad to hear there's no fix coming.

 

Here's my video of the same extreme slowdown issue when using the text panel: https://youtu.be/PyOaGVn-ql4

 

Compared to the user in the older thread, my example of the issue on an even simpler timeline (one layer of text on top of one layer of video), but that isn't stopping Premiere from falling apart at the seams!

 

For reference, I'm using an Apple M1 MAX MacBook Pro with 64 GB of RAM, so the hardware is far from the issue here.

 

In the last thread, the user @AndrewTheGreat was told it was his fault for daring to use... a whopping 5... layers of text in this professional-grade video editing software. But like he said: there are countless free iOS apps that can do similar things without breaking a sweat! Instagram can do it! TikTok can do it!

 

I recognize that Premiere is a whole different kettle of fish – it's clearly built on an aging, creaky infrastructure that Adobe is unable or unwilling to fix – but jeez, man, don't people edit entire movies with this software?

 

It worries me that the official Adobe solutions always sound like "Hey, what if you disabled all your text? Or rendered it out as its own thing and brought it back in? What font are you using again?" It really feels like these are short-term treatments of the symptom, not the disease, and I'm a little alarmed that Adobe doesn't seem to feel any urgency in fixing these issues that thousands of power users experience daily. Text is a pretty basic feature, I think you'd agree!

 

It's a little hilarious to see users being told to just "remove all their graphics and text layers" – but not one mention of "Hey, we recognize that this is an issue, and are taking steps to fix it."

 

Is this really not something that we can pray Adobe will fix down the road? Does it really fall on us, the users, to disassemble and reassemble our entire workflows around this creaky piece of software, when every competitor's software can do these very basic things without any of these issues?

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Editing , Effects and Titles , Error or problem , Freeze or hang , Performance , User interface or workspaces

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Adobe Employee ,
Dec 18, 2023 Dec 18, 2023

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Hi @nickr21371816,

Thanks for the note and the video. No, I would say that your experience is not normal. Thousands of people are not experiencing the issue you are facing, thankfully.

 

Your hardware meets system requirements, I have a similar computer and don't see this issue. Can you test with a brand new project? Do you have the same issue? Can you create text without video and do you have the same issue? Have you tried pressing Shift at launch and resetting preferences and deleting media cache? Reboot and see how it goes. 

 

Still having trouble? Let us know any crucial details about the video file. What kind of media are you operating with? Is it HEVC or H.264? Is it 10-bit 4:2:2? I hope we can get to the bottom of your problem ASAP. Sorry for the frustration.

 

Thanks,
Kevin

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

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New Here ,
May 24, 2024 May 24, 2024

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I have an M3 with 32gb of ram. If I type/add text as a graphic. I will type a word or two and then wait 30+ SECONDS for the text to show up, so it is not just him. Playback after works fine. Very frustrating.

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Community Beginner ,
Aug 18, 2024 Aug 18, 2024

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Happens to me too. Incredibly frustrating. 

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New Here ,
Aug 22, 2024 Aug 22, 2024

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Yes, This is happening for thousands of people. Including Me. Fix THIS!!!!

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Community Beginner ,
Aug 22, 2024 Aug 22, 2024

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Someone suggested a workaround that worked for me - try opening premiere from your toolbar/wherever the app is, as opposed to from the project file itself. 

such a stupid problem. 

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New Here ,
Sep 13, 2024 Sep 13, 2024

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Had the same issue on the M3 Max Macbook Pro with 32Gb ram and opening premiere instead of the project file fixed it for me!

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Community Beginner ,
Sep 13, 2024 Sep 13, 2024

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Yes!

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Community Beginner ,
Oct 04, 2024 Oct 04, 2024

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Me too! Holy sh*t!!!     C'mon Adobe, FIX THIS!

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New Here ,
Nov 14, 2024 Nov 14, 2024

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I can't believe that worked! What a weird bug.

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New Here ,
Jan 20, 2025 Jan 20, 2025

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it worked for me too....

thanks a lot

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Community Expert ,
Dec 18, 2023 Dec 18, 2023

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Mine's working OK. Tested it over HEVC

12900K, Win11-22h2, 64mb, M2 drive.

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Enthusiast ,
Dec 19, 2023 Dec 19, 2023

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I can add to that. Once you have more than 3-4 text layers - no matter what footage you use (i even tried using a video layer instead - but 10 or more text layers, Premiere gets as slow as hell. 13700K, 4080, 64 Gb Ram, SSD

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Community Expert ,
Dec 19, 2023 Dec 19, 2023

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18 layers

Mine's working OK. Tested it over two layers of HEVC (one for the picture with a transition)

12900K, Win11-22h2, 64mb, M2 drives, 4070

 

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Enthusiast ,
Dec 22, 2023 Dec 22, 2023

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Now do the same test but create LAYERS of text on the timeline, not just enclosed texts in the same EG-layer

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Enthusiast ,
Dec 22, 2023 Dec 22, 2023

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Hello nick etc.,

 

I notice in your video that you have "display duplicate frames" enabled. There was a bug (on some version of PPro?) where enabling this made captions / titles very slow / unresponsive. Probably worth a quick check to see if disabling this in the timeline affects your performance at all (it will be very noticable if it does.)


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