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MacOS Tahoe Adobe support - extremely poor performance

Community Beginner ,
Sep 24, 2025 Sep 24, 2025

I made the mistake of upgrading my Mac Studio to MacOS Tahoe, and now Premiere is practically impossible to use. Playback is choppy with the program choking on any timeline with more than one clip / effect, and simple edits have crazy input lag. I know how to revert back to Sequioa, but I don't have a Time Machine backup before Tahoe so it seems pointless.

 

Based on last year's Sequioa release, does anyone have an idea of when Adobe would release a patch to support the new MacOS? Will it be this year since they normally only release 5-6 updates and we're already at 25.5? Anyone else struggling with this and found any workarounds?

 

DON'T UPDATE YET IF YOU HAVEN'T

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Editing , Error or problem , Freeze or hang , Performance
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Adobe Employee , Sep 26, 2025 Sep 26, 2025

Thanks for the details. Is hardware accelerated decoding enabled under Premiere Pro > Settings > Media?

-Sumeet

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Community Beginner , Sep 30, 2025 Sep 30, 2025

Wait wait, you have to enable permissions again. It happened to me and I freaked the **** out. 

Settings>Privacy & Security> Give Premiere permission (should be there on that page upon opening it). 

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Community Beginner ,
Oct 02, 2025 Oct 02, 2025

I think I was able to finally get it to open, but it is extremely laggy. I have proxies on and set to playback in 1/2 speed and I cant watch a clip in full. Makes it super hard to edit not knowing what the clip looks like. Any idea how to solve that?

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New Here ,
Oct 02, 2025 Oct 02, 2025

I noticed my hardware acceleration was turned off after updating? Maybe try that? Otherwise, it sucks, but perhaps the video format in which the clips were shot in might need to change. For me, I shoot on a sony a7s3 and shooting on XAVC S-I 4K is the best to work with, but, file size is larger. 

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Community Beginner ,
Oct 06, 2025 Oct 06, 2025

Hmmm its tough. I run the Macbook pro m1 standard 16gb ram, with clips shot in the HVAC-S 4K codec  (sony a7s3), and runs ok with the new crappy OS. I still do proxies, and edit off my samsung t7 SSD's. I do often clean my media cache in PP before starting fresh projects, and I run Clean My Mac to clear up RAM processes, and importantly run a clean internal SSD. It's probably no help, but this is what I maintain to keep working on PP without having to splash cash on a new M4 macbook pro or whatever. 

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Community Beginner ,
Oct 04, 2025 Oct 04, 2025

I dont know what to do where you screenshotted. Mine says app store and known developers, and i can change it to app store, but nothing changes. I have given premiere and media encorder full disk access as well and that didnt solve it. I have cleared my cache, im not sure what else to do. It seems like its my footage that I filmed in 59.94. but even slowed down or interpreting the footage to be 23.976 doesnt solve it being laggy.

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Community Beginner ,
Oct 04, 2025 Oct 04, 2025

I just made a 59.94fps timeline and I was able to play the clip in full... a slight inconvience but maybe a temporary solution. fingers crossed

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Explorer ,
Oct 02, 2025 Oct 02, 2025

I second the performance issues.  Never had problems scrubbing through a timeline before, even with 4K video (on 1/2 playback resolution).  Now I have to waste time making proxies all the time.  Don't do Tahoe folks!

 

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Community Beginner ,
Oct 07, 2025 Oct 07, 2025
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THIS IS SO NOT ON ADOBE. we pay a fortune. sort it out....how many more people need to raise this issue?

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