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The Jive Aces
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April 1, 2017
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My Premiere Pro Suddenly Running slow

  • April 1, 2017
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I have been having very similar problems to other posts recently for the last couple of weeks. It has been fine and then suddenly, everything described by others. I am only using DSLR footage and my timelines are simple. My macbook pro is more than capable of handling it, it has been for the last three years.

It also keeps making my computer run out of application memory and pausing the app.

I have cleaned the caches, reset the settings, deleted preference files and even reset P Ram. It is very frustrating as I have deadlines and may have to (ugh) do it in iMovie while this gets sorted. Please hurry up Adobe!

[Moderator note: branched from old discussion and edited for clarity. New versions can have similar appearing issues but from very different causes.]

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    The Jive AcesAuthor
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    April 2, 2017

    Everything seems to be working fine unless I use warp stabilizer inside PPro which is frustrating as I have come to need it. I will attempt to use in AE instead.

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    Zach_Gus_
    Participant
    May 17, 2019

    Buy Fcpx, at least it works

    R Neil Haugen
    R Neil Haugen
    Legend
    May 17, 2019

    Which assumes you're working with a Mac ... and given Macs in general are a fairly small segment of computer user base, not something that many would have available. Of course, then you have to get around Apple's decision to create their own color space which is of course possible but something many don't seem to figure out.

    They're all tools. Nothing more. All have warts, all have cool bits. For anyone who wants to say "Well, Resolve is stable/whatever" ... check out the LGG (LiftGammaGain) forum. You'll find a lot of members there have all the computers at their shop locked down to the last 14.x version because ... in their shop ... they never found a 15.x version of Resolve that was stable. And now, Resolve is shipping 16.x.

    JiveAcres issue is partly because of the limited capabilities of his laptop. And of course some other things can be at issue also.

    Neil

    Everyone's mileage always varies ...
    R Neil Haugen
    R Neil Haugen
    Legend
    April 1, 2017

    "... only using DSLR footage ..."

    The assumption that DSLR footage is "easy" on the computer isn't accurate. Most DSLR footage is long-GOP, meaning that the camera records a complete frame, and then for a number of "frames" after that, only stores the data of the pixels that have changed, not a complete frame. So ... the computer has to de-encode the first frame, pass it along and store it in RAM or cache, call up the pixel-change data for the next frame, recall the first frame, compute changes, store/pass, call up the data for the next frame ... rinse & repeat. It is incredibly CPU/core/thread/RAM intensive compared to intraframe codecs such as say ProRes, DNxHD/R, or Cineform, which store video files as complete separate frames.

    DSLR footage is much "smaller" in space terms, but much harder on the computer to play back, especially in an NLE.

    Several people on the forum here have had upgrades pop into their PrPro in the last few weeks, and when that occurred, had this issue. Some had it when 2017 arrived.

    How about giving us a complete list of your computer's specs, including the number and types of drives you're using, and how they're connected to the mobo. And which specific number-dot-number version of PrPro you're using, and of course the media frame-size/rate and codec/wrapper.

    Neil

    Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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    The Jive AcesAuthor
    Known Participant
    April 1, 2017

    OK understood. I have been using the same camera on the same machine for three years and never had this issue so I  don't think it is the footage but it is Canon 7D DSLR footage, H.264.

    Model Name: MacBook Pro

      Model Identifier: MacBookPro11,3

      Processor Name: Intel Core i7

      Processor Speed: 2.6 GHz

      Number of Processors: 1

      Total Number of Cores: 4

      L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB

      L3 Cache: 6 MB

      Memory: 16 GB

      Boot ROM Version: MBP112.0138.B21

      SMC Version (system): 2.19f12

    Currently using the internal drive only as I am travelling.

    PPro version 2017.0.2.

    I did however just remove the warp stabilizer effect I had on it and it seems to have eased up in the last few minutes so...?

    R Neil Haugen
    R Neil Haugen
    Legend
    April 1, 2017

    Ok thanks. It didn't do this in the previous version though and I have also used it numerous times inside after effects without the same issue. Surely it can't be that different. I'm no expert on the inner workings though.


    This 2017 "ish" of PrPro is being a lot more hardware-piggish, I guess you could say, than previous versions. There was a big jump with the initial release of 2017, and the updates have seemed to also step up the demands some.

    Neil

    Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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