Essential Sound Panel causes huge 8 second playback lag

[devin119]

I have a basic 4 minute timeline with MXF files from a C300MKII. UHD footage with a single interview dialog track and a couple music tracks. I'm on a beefy PC with an i7 7700k cpu and a 1080ti GPU. Footage is running off a G-drive raid at 500 megs/sec through thunderbolt. I am using the most current versions of Win 10 and PP CC.

Everything plays perfectly until I start to use the Essential sound panel. I've applied the dialog type, unified loudness, and some clarity (dynamics processing). Now it takes nearly 6-8 seconds for the playback to start after hitting spacebar or the L key. It has become terribly laggy and impossible to use. This includes after rendering. Even moving the playhead on the timeline it takes 6-8 second to update the image in the viewer. When I try to render only the audio, instead of a process bar it just starts paying the timeline from the top sort of how After Effects handles audio. It's very frustrating. If I remove the E-Sound filters then everything goes back to normal and playback is fine.

Thanks for any help in advance.
I've tried:
• Restarting
• Clearing cache
• dumping all render files

- Copy and pasting into new timeline.

[devin119]

Just to add to this much later down the road. I am now using an entirely new PC with 16cores and 128gigs of ram on SSD storage... editing with r3d and prores media shot on an Epic-W.

As soon as I use the Essential Sound Panel the 6-8 second lag starts. If I remove all the ESPanel changes i did it goes back to no lag at all.

This is obviously a terrible bug Adobe.  9 months later there is still no fix. What the hell?

[efrats66587528]

Having very similar problems

[Orf]

Same issues here. Agree. Essential Sound is utterly unusable.

Has anybody else had this issue? It started for me after introduction of Essential Sound panel.

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