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Playback play/stop lag ever since 2020 update

Forum|Forum|5 years ago
January 9, 2021
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Playback commands have been super laggy ever since I updated to the 2020 version. Playback continues to play for about 3-4 seconds after stopping it. It happens about a 4th of the time, but it's enough to slow my editing way down. Starting playback is the same way. It doesn't matter whether I'm on my 2019 MacBook Pro or my 2017 iMac, it still struggles. I'm on a super fast system with my footage, app, and media cache all on separate thunderbolt SSD drives, so I shouldn't be having this problem. I can't figure it out. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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benwinter

Inspiring

Yes, I have this problem too. And I'm on a Mac Pro 2019 tower, with proxy footage on NVMe RAID drives, so it's not hardware. Premiere seems to just be fickle like that. A new version will come out and a new problem will present itself. All you can do is hope Adobe fixes it in the next update.

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Michael Grenadier

Legend

editing software is a complicated beast and all sorts of things can cause problems many of which are not adobe's fault. There are many troubleshooting steps to take which may help you solve your problem. If you want to pursue this, start a new thread and provide the usual info and we can try and figure out what's going on. I worked in Premiere 2020 without any serious issues on both an ancient macbookpro (2012) besides the fact that the lumetri scopes no longer appeared and a relatively new windows custom build. I'm now working in Premiere 2021 without any serious issues on both systems.

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benwinter

Inspiring

so the obvious solution for you is to move to FCPX an apple product that was designed to work soley on apple computers. Does away with all this cross platforum tsuris.

Premiere was originally designed solely for Apple computers, in 1991, you know that right? Heck, Illustrator was designed for the Macintosh in the 80's. Why is it suddenly ridiculous to expect Adobe software to run well on Apple computers?

So I can't help but chuckle when you seem to be stupified that one would expect Adobe products to perform well on a Mac, because their motherboards aren't swappable (?) or they have special chips (??), when Adobe literally got their start writing programs for Apple hardware. Sounds a bit silly, doesn't it? Especially considering Apple commands a major market share of creative professionals, Adobe's primary customer base?

I come here looking for help improving my experience, reporting bugs in the hopes that they might get fixed, and sharing my experience with others so they don't go down rabbit holes as I did these many years. Maybe you're a PC guy, good for you; lots of professionals use Macs, and it would be Adobe's best interest and indeed responsibility to make sure their software runs equally well on both. And I'm sure they're giving it their best shot. It doesn't change my assessment.

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Andy 1968

Inspiring

For audio hardware you can select no input. If you edit H.264 you shoud check to see if Quick Sync is encoding and decoding. I think iStats can do that.

Jeff Bugbee

Community Expert

Is your footage VFR by any chance?

Ann Bens

Community Expert

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kylej20954771Author

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I've actually tried both of those already, and it didn't fixed anything for me. But I really appreciate the reply! Thank you! Hopefully I can find a solution to this super frustrating problem.

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