Massive slow-down when inputting lots of text into Essential Graphics rolling title

Report · Apr 30, 2020

Hi there,

We're working with a client to put together a large list of names in a rolling credits over a simple JPEG image. The list of names, coming from a 17 page word doc, has been inserted into Premiere's essential graphics system. With such a long document, the program becomes highly unstable and largely unusable when making minor changes to formatting and placement of text.

Does anyone have any experience getting the program to pick up the speed a bit when working with such a large amount of text in Essential Graphics? This seems like it should be a simple thing to render easily while remaining editable, but I'm looking at delays of around 5-6 seconds after a single click on a character, thus making any changes to a document this size a monumental waste of time. Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

My hardware is as follows:
iMac Pro (2017)

Processor: 3.2 GHz Intel Xeon W

Memory: 32 GB 2666 DDR4

Graphics: Radeon Pro Vega 56 8GB

Report · Oct 21, 2022

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Report · Jan 18, 2023

I've kind of found a work around (as this is still a problem jan 23). After testing my project on 2 different computers, I discovered that it's a software issue for sure and it has to do with the amount of text in a specific sequence. I have fixed this by creating a new sequence once the text tool slows down. Text in the blank sequence should be working normal again. When you want to export, you could just paste everything into one sequence. Hope this helps!

Report · Feb 05, 2023

Thanks, for suggestion, but hope after 3 years, Adobe will pay attention to this problem, cause divide text in smaller blocks is not very convinient, and need more time. Looks like some buffer in program is overloaded and stuttering.

@Fergus H @Francis-Crossman @DaciaSaenz @jstrawn

Mod note: text has been edited to remove named employees no longer at Adobe or who are not on the product team.

Report · Feb 06, 2023

Hi Joseph,

I moved this to the Bugs forum. Please upvote.

Thanks,
Kevin

Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community & Engagement Strategist – Pro Video and Audio

Report · Jan 24, 2023

When you put many text in rolling title, using Essential Graphics, it freeze down and makes almost impossible any export or live playback, it goes 1 frame per second (on high end workstation GPU rtx 3090 , CPU 13900k, RAM and so on).
I have posted this bug before https://adobe-video.uservoice.com/forums/911233/suggestions/45697954
Thread was deleted, have contact on email with Adobe team representative Annika, have sent project samples to her, and still after 3 month no solution.
Also there is thread from 2020 year in community with more description and feedback
https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/massive-slow-down-when-inputting-lots-of-tex...

Adobe Team, please, fix this problem, cause I still using old title editor with previous 2020-2021 versions of Premiere Pro, to work with titles (but old title is also buggy).
Best regards, Kostia

Report · Dec 31, 2022

@Francis-Crossman Hi, is there any possibility to fix this problem Massive slow-down when inputting lots of text into Essential Graphics rolling title ?
I have contact with Annika Koenig on e-mail (after posting problem on uservoice), but here is 3 month after it no results, still when you put many text in Rolling Text (Essential Graphics) it export/preview 1 fram per second on RTX 3090 i9-13900k...

This is frustrating really, I was using old text rolling titles instead, but in 2023 premiere it's cutted from programm (and was still buggy, but better then 1 fram per second)
Sorry for off-topic, pay attention, please, to this problem.

Huge Thanks!

Report · Feb 06, 2023

just a shot in the dark. Have you tried changing the renderer in project settings: general to software? I have a decent windows machine, but 2012 macbookpro that's pretty much end of life ... But... it's what I use when I have to work at a clients. changing the renderer to software makes the machine usable. And as I've said previously in this thread, building the crawl in photoshop isn't that difficult. If you're working in 1080, you create a document that's 1920 pixels wide and with a large vertical pixel dimension so you can just drop the photoshop file into premiere and animate it vertically...

Report · Feb 06, 2023

@Kevin-Monahan thanks, for support, hope Adobe will fix it, very old bug, and due to Legacy Title was completely cut out of Premiere 2023, there is no alternative now (except using old version Premiere 2021-2022). So its time to resolve this.
@Michael Grenadier of course, we all tried Software render and Hardware (CUDA and Intel QuickSync separately and simultaniously), bug present always, for me with RTX 3090 Software on CPU i9 13900k is even more slower then on GPU (like 30%), but on GPU RTX 3090 need 1 hour for 5 min fragment of Rolling Text/Essential Graphics (on CPU like 1.3h).

Of course, you can use Photoshop or any other editor, but we all here for Premiere as All-in-one app fast and convinient, so need to be resolved

Report · Mar 28, 2023

Have the exact same issue. 200+ patreon names to be added to footage. Exporting with the text graphic takes 100+ hours (estimated time remaining). Exporting the same video without a text credit roll takes 1 hour.

Report · Apr 03, 2023

I think we need create new thread, cause this was moved from forum 2020 year, and nobody see this thread and not give upvote, cause default sort is by latest. Maybe will do it those days.
Also possible that is very hard to solve this issue if this is engine failure of Premiere Pro (or something like that), cause I have speak before with Adobe Team using e-mail, and was in work, but then they stop responding...

Report · Apr 12, 2023

Same issue with text in graphics... Happened intermittently, did some media cache deleting, some reboots, allocating more memory to Premiere than other apps, but the issue remains... Very slow to process text, or to modify it. Very annoying issue!

Report · Apr 28, 2023

This happens with ANY sequence which has lots of titles or captions inside.

I have twenty 1-minute clips on timeline, hey, it is nothing!

Generted CAPTIONS for them, and everything became dead now.

M2 MAX, 32 GB RAM lol

have to put them in separate sequences... crazy

Report · May 02, 2023

@Georgii247500100148 Well, I am currently using Premiere Pro 2021/2022 with Legacy Title, when doing this. Its only convinient option for me, as well Adobe Team no care this problem for 3 years+
Legacy Title a bit buggy (can be sometime bug which close program) in Premiere 2022, planning to test it in 2021 or 2020 Premiere. But when exporting, even if you have 100 pages+ it will export in 5 min for me (rtx 3090 13900k), while Essential Graphics would do that in 1-2 hours minimum, and possible even not finish (freeze in middle)

Report · Jun 14, 2023

This has been a persistent bug for years now. What do I need to do to get Adobe to pay attention to this. Happy to send over a sample project and video evidence of just how slow and usable it becomes.

Report · Jun 14, 2023

as I have suggested, build the title roll in photoshop and then bring the file into premiere and animate it. If you need to make any changes, select the clip in the timeline, and control click and choose edit in photoshop. make your changes and save in photoshop and the changes are immediately updated in Premiere. This has been my workflow for years and it's rock solid. I'm not a programmer, but what you're asking for may not be simple to implement in Premiere.

Report · Jun 14, 2023

I am using premiere 2022 legacy title, but during edits sometimes close with critical error. I think that's why they removed it in 2023, but not fixed Essential graphics yet

Report · Jul 26, 2023

Yeah, having the same issue adjusting the position of text in a 2min sequence with lots of captions.

Not ideal but I find disabling all the text in the seqeuence brings back the speed. Quick way to do this: Find> Effects> Text, then disable (reenable just the text you want to work with)

Report · Jul 10, 2025

Sorry, I'm lost here. You say go to Find > Effects > Text , then disable

Not understanding what you mean by Find first of all. Effects tab, I am looking for Text, nope.

Pretend like I am a new user. Also @Michael Grenadier do you have any tutorials for how to get over 2 thousand names in Photoshop and to keep them aligned on a canvas? Would probably like that option better personally. I am familiar with Photoshop over the past 15+ years, but I only work with images and never long text in a verticle format to export as image for scrolling etc.

BTW, this is 2025 and this issue still persist with Adobe, lets go for 2030 next!

Report · Jul 10, 2025

then disable by right clicking on the selected text clips

Report · Jul 26, 2023

DJP2014, good post. It's about getting the job done and if workarounds are necessary, that's the way to go. Premiere is a very complex program and sometimes things become too much for it to handle particularly if you don't have a top of the line workstation. Wondering if a proxy workflow would help speed things up. If you're working with an mpeg format, and generate proxies in a mezzanine format, might speed things up.