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kylej20954771
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January 9, 2021
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Playback play/stop lag ever since 2020 update

  • 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
    May 18, 2021

    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
    May 18, 2021

    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
    May 20, 2021

    No one is saying Premiere Pro does not have bugs. I am saying the 2019 Mac Pro has had problems with other software and 3rd party hardware. Can you accept that the Mac Pro is not perfect?

    That being said no one said anything about the shape of your motherboard being the problem. I stated the Mac Pro is not a generic ATX computer like Dell, HP and Lenovo computers. It has funky hardware just like the 2013 Mac Pro. The funky PCIE slots for the graphics card requiring a proprietary chipset. My Z390 motherboard would not recognize the funky PCIE slots on the Mac Pro. Rather than tap into Nvnec your Mac Pro relies on the T2 chip to do that (the T2 chip is not the chipset). I doubt Adobe writes code for the 2T chip. Why should they? Why does Apple have to use crazy crap instead industry standards? Rather than post salacious arguments give us your stats so other people can try to help resolve the issues.


    So how is the T2 chip a problem exactly? Maybe you should let Adobe know. It's installed in all the new products from the biggest computer manufacturer in the world, after all. They might want to figure out how to get their software to run well on those.

     

    The Mac Pro could be made out of swiss cheese and spare Cuisinart parts. If Adobe claims their software is compatible, it should work. Full stop.

     

    "Nvnec?" You know all Macs use AMD only right? You also know that the 2019 Mac Pro has standard PCIe slots, just like a PC? And this feature is very much unlike the 2013 Mac Pro? Is Mac hardware "funky" to you just because you can't buy it at a MicroCenter?

     

    I already posted a link to my earlier problem, you can see where Adobe has suddenly declined to respond with an explanation. You, similarly, seem to be declining to be helpful.

     

    Premiere doesn't run well on Macs compared to the competition, this has been my experience. There is nothing to argue about. I linked directly to a specific bug in the program with video proof and you still want to blame Apple, incredibly. No need to respond unless you want to be helpful.

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    Andy 1968
    Inspiring
    May 18, 2021

    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
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      Jeff BugbeeCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      May 18, 2021

      Is your footage VFR by any chance?

      Ann Bens
      Community Expert
      Ann BensCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      January 9, 2021

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      kylej20954771Author
      Participant
      January 17, 2021

      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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