Every time I use the "Add Edit" tool, Premiere lags

[karenvideoeditor]

I'm dealing with the most infuriating bug -- it's literally not letting me edit.

I've tried everything with this project, and can't even figure out the source of the issue. Whenever I hit "Add Edit", it freezes up for like five seconds. Sometimes when I import the footage it shows as corrupted and unable to import (I've gotten low-level exceptions, Importer:81 and 39). I'm worried there is a clip/clips that are ruining the whole sequence. Any ideas what the issue could be?

Specs:

Latest version of Premiere, Version 24.3.0 (Build 59)

Footage is all MPEG-4, AVC

Windows 10 Pro

i7-5820K, 3.30GHZ

32GB RAM

NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 1650 SUPER

[Ann Bens]

Your machine (cpu) is somewhat below minimum specs.

Premiere Pro system requirements for Windows

Might want to consider proxies.

[karenvideoeditor]

Oh absolutely! I should have mentioned, I use proxies, and I've recreated them multiple times. No luck. I always need them because I cut weddings and so I'm looking at two or three cameras at once, or more sometimes.

[Ann Bens]

Reset preferences - Premiere Help

[karenvideoeditor]

Tried that already. I tried everything. Recreated the whole project,
recreate the proxies, tried working on it on three different drives,
nothing works.

[karenvideoeditor]

For anyone who stumbles upon this in the future, it turned out to be an AUDIO problem. Don't know how to fix it, but I can still edit the video. Making edits in the audio track still takes a 5-second buffer for some reason, but I'm cutting a wedding so it's doable for me. Mostly my edits are on the video tracks once the audio is cleaned up.

[Michael Grenadier]

 what are your source audio settings and your sequence audio settings?  And try going to preferences: audio hardwre: and change the input to "none."  seems to help solve a lot of problems.  

[karenvideoeditor]

Tried changing it to 'none', nothing changed.

Audio sequence settings are 48000 Hz - Stereo. It also says Display Format: Audio Samples. Grayed out is "Channel Format: Stereo" and "Number of channels: 2"

Audio clips vary. They are:

- 48000 Hz - 16-bit - Mono (separate audio)

- 48000 Hz - 32-bit Float - Mono (separate audio)

- 48000 Hz - 16-bit - Stereo (camera audio)

- 48000 Hz - 16-bit - Stereo mapped to 2 Mono (camera audio)

- 48000 Hz - Compressed - Stereo (camera audio)

It's worth noting that I've been editing weddings for this guy monthly for eight years. Never had anything like this issue before.