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January 9, 2021
Question

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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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.

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.

Inspiring
May 20, 2021

Hey Andy, I pretty much agree with everything your saying, but I do have a problem with the use of the word "silacious."  I think you meant to use  "salacious" which means having or conveying undue or inappropriate interest in sexual matters which doesn't make a lot of sense to me in this context.   I usually appreciate it if someone corrects me if I misuse a word.  you may not...  but we do seem to have gone down the rabbit hole on this thread and reached the point that nothing more is being accomplished.   Wait, did you mean fallacious?  

"based on a mistaken belief."  Just throw something at me if you think I'm being a jerk.  wouldn't be the first time that somebody's thrown something at me or I've been a jerk, but not always at the same time.  I really need to get back to work.  
 
 

mgrenadier,

My bad. I switched it to fallacious. 

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
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 18, 2021

Is your footage VFR by any chance?

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.