Premier Pro awful playback and generally slow...

[Moses37043195x77i]

Hello everyone, 

I hope you´re all well. I ghave started using premier pro quite some time ago, but it is only now that i am starting to find issues. I had a Razer Blaze 15 advanced, and premier pro was unforgivable laggy, event after upgrading to 64gb of ram. Now i am using a macbook air, and premier pro cant event handle 10gb of footage without lagging. Honestly this app infuriated me, i wish i could go back and learn on a much more reliable application, that wouldnt make me miss project deadlines and just makes the content creation game so hard. Ive taken the obvious steps such as allow software encoding instead of hardware, lowered playback resolution, and cleared media cache but nothing changes.... 

[Peru Bob]

Check the Audio Hardware Preferences. Default Audio Input should be set to No Input.

[Moses37043195x77i]

Thank you very much 

[Peru Bob]

What are the complete computer specs, including hard drives (how many, what kind, what is on each, what capacity, and how full)?

What are the file types and codecs of your media?

Are they variable frame rate?

[Moses37043195x77i]

Its a Macbook Air M3 chip, but only has 8gb of ram which is possibly the problem 

[Peru Bob]

RAM is likely the issue.