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Eman5EB0
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January 31, 2023
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M2 chip MacBook poor premiere pro experience

  • January 31, 2023
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I was wondering if anyone could please help

I am using premiere pro on macbook air M2 chip, 8GB RAM. I cleared out all my storage and have 120GB available on the MacOS system.

I am trying to edit a short video, all clips in 4K, I have about 12 clips making a 9 minute video. Nothing too crazy. But every time I try to render it takes up all the 120GB and takes out all my storage, only renders up to 2 minutes before saying error. I have tried editing the video on my M1 chip Mac but have the same issue. Even updated all the softwares, uninstalled and reinstalled creative cloud and still no change. Could anyone please help? The edited video is now very glitchy with lots of audio errors and I have no idea why. I am not savvy with Adobe, please help! I never had this problem before on my old laptop, I wish I never bought this M2 laptop now...

Thank you

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MyerPj
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MyerPjCommunity Expert
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January 31, 2023

I'm not a mac guy at all, but is that 8GB of ram? If so and fwiw: My 2011 machine had 16gb. You're at the bare minimum to get the software running. Further the requirements 16GB for HD media and 32GB for 4K.

 

https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/system-requirements.html

 

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Eman5EB0Author
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January 31, 2023

Yes 8GB of RAM, ah ok- how do I go about increasing it to 32GB? Thank you for your help 

    MyerPj
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    MyerPjCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    January 31, 2023

    Check with your hardware people / shop. As a PC guy, that's what I can guess, maybe @Kevin-Monahan has an idea.

     

     

      Kevin-Monahan
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      Kevin-MonahanCommunity Manager
      Community Manager
      January 31, 2023

      Hi Eman,

      Sounds like a frustrating experience to have with such a new computer. You might try reinstalling 23.0 to see if that helps. .

       

      Thanks,
      Kevin

      Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community and Engagement Strategist – Adobe Pro Video and Audio
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      Eman5EB0Author
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      January 31, 2023

      I've done that too, but still the same issue. If I redirect the video previews in project settings to my 1TB hardrive then it renders ok but takes 300GB of storage to render a 4k 9 min video with very few transitions or overlays. And when I do render it glitches everything. Does M2 chip just not work well with 4k on premiere pro? If so I might switch to a different software as this is so bizarre.

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