HUGE memory leak - Mac Apple Silicon - Premiere Pro version 23.2

[ItsJustRich]

I have an issue with the latest version of premiere working fine but progressivley getting slower, then filling all available ram and disk swap, I get a memory error on mac with premiere pro usung in excess of 100GB editing standard 4K footage, footage that never used to have issues until this version.

My system 

Macbook pro 16 inch, 32`gb ram M1 Max

latest OS (13.2.1 (22D68))

Premiere 23.2

Its happened on multiple projects, some new some old.

I've had to revert to the previous version for my own sanity.

Does anyone else have this issue?

[Bruce Bullis]

We haven't received any other reports of behavior like this...

Confirming: While running PPro, it consumes all available RAM, AND fills your entire scratch disk, media cache directory, or both?

What are you mostly doing during those PPro sessions; exporting, editing on the timeline, editing metadata...?

[ItsJustRich]

Fills the ram and Mac OS memory cache, so 32gb and then up to 103GB in use on activity manager.

when the force quit window pops up premiere stops responding, even closing all other apps.

I could replicate it by scrubbing the timeline of clips with no effects or adjustments, it would get slower and slower and eat the ram. Using footages from Sony A7iV (all I 4k 10 bit), and DJI mini 3 pro (4k 10 bit)

I've switched to the previous version, doesn't have the issue. 

[Bruce Bullis]

Ahh; earlier you'd mentioned filling disk cache as well. 

You said multiple projects; were you also using a variety of media? What flavor (codec/format) was your 'standard 4K footage'? 

[ItsJustRich]

Ahh I meant system ram disk cache which Mac OS uses when the rams full, but yeah definitely 103gb for running a program is extreme.

sony alpha format mp4 all-I 4k 4:2:2 10 bit, and DJI mini 3 pro mp4 with 10 bit

both 25 fps 

I say standard as that's what I've been editing with for the past year with no issues like this, the previous version of premiere doesn't have the issue

[Bruce Bullis]

[Reached out directly, for actionable details]

[David23936341w34z]

was this issue resolved? I've been having this issue and it's getting increasingly worse.

I'm experiencing it in an almost identical fashion to described (being footage and codecs used).

[Jody Bolder]

Same issue for me - The latest Premiere pro 23.2 

Running on a M1 Max 64gb on Latest Ventura

Working with Sony Fx6 footage, 8bit and 10bit footage - 2 Video layers max and no fx except Lumeti and Fabfilters

[Srfaye327]

I've been having this issue too.

[mstegner]

@Jody Bolder

You mention "FabFilters".  Are you talking about the FabFilter 3rd party audio effects?  If you are, does removing them make a difference to memory consumption?

[Jody Bolder]

Yep, it happens when FabFilters are not running on the project

Same with with Fab Filters Updated to the latest version

And still happens when FabFilters are uninstalled

Usually around to 40 minute mark

[ajfilms]

This is happening to me as well now.  Top-of-the-line Mac Studio 128GB Raw is a 9K machine one-year-old, and it was even having trouble running 1080p footage.  WTF is going on!!!!!

[Zachcfowler]

Same problem. Happened half a dozen times today. Nothing special. Mostly prores 1080 proxies.

Mac Studio M1 Ultra 

20 Core

64gb Memory

Ventera 13.1

[Bruce Bullis]

Are you also still on 23.2? 

[Zachcfowler]

Yup! My apologies, I usually check for updates before posting about issues. I'll give the update a try.

[ajfilms]

Im on 23.3, and it still does it occasionally, but not as much.

[Bruce Bullis]

Glad to hear it!

(also, no apology necessary for not having upgraded; I just wanted to make sure it was still a 23.2 issue)

hopefully, 23.4 brings further improvements.

[Zachcfowler]

I haven't had it happen since upgrading. Thanks for the reply and suggestion, Bruce. 

[ItsJustRich]

I've updated to 22.3, I'll update this thread if the issue is still there or not. 

I ended up just skipping 22.2 so fingers crossed 🤞 

[ItsJustRich]

I've updated to 23.3, I'll update this thread if the issue is still there or not. 

I ended up just skipping 23.2 so fingers crossed 🤞 

(corrected the version number)

[leonardd47297138]

This happened to us yesterday -- running a brand new, full fat Mac Studio, and after allowing Premiere Pro to update to 24.4.1, we instantly began to encounter a memory leak that saw Premiere overspill its RAM allocation to the point of crashing our entire system. 3 hours of troublehsooting later, a phone call to Adobe confirmed they KNOW about the memory leak issue, but decided not to pull the update, or even inform anyone of the risk. We immediately went back to the previous version of Premiere, and the problem disappeared. Quite honestly, I cannot beleive Adobe has allowed this to happen. On top of the stress, we lost thousands in staff line, and missed a key client deadline, because of Adobe's lack of care. Never, ever upgrading an Adobe program in the middle of a project again (stupid us), and may abandon Adobe completely if this is the way they're going to treat Pro users.

[ajfilms]

That is brutal man. It's been really difficult this version. 

[ItsJustRich]

Still occuring version 23.4!

[Brian1289]

This started happening to me. I've been troubleshooting for half a day and can't figure it out.

My video is 2 minutes long with basic effects, and I can't edit it for more than 5 minutes before having to force quit.

[ItsJustRich]

For your own sanity go back to 23.2 or earlier, the latest versions are seriously broken.