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RapidKing
RapidKing
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November 1, 2014
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Premier Pro runs system out of application memory (CC 2014 & CC 2015 on OS X)

  • November 1, 2014
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As I edited about a 20 minute clip of video, the memory consumption of Premiere Pro CC 2014 on my MacBook Pro (Core i7, 16GB memory, 500GB SSD with 150GB free, Yosemite) grew and grew. Now, when I open the project, Premiere Pro immediate consumes 30GB of memory! Which means that opening my project now takes about 15 minutes (the blank Premiere application appears in about 2 minutes, but the panels do not complete their slow fill-in for another 13 minutes - all the while the cursor is spinning, not allowing me to select anything, and activity Monty tells me that Premiere is unresponsive). Worse still, when I try to export my project, memory usage grows above 60GB, until my system gives up and reports "Your System has run out of application memory". Keep in mind that I been careful to reboot the system, reset PRAM, and run nothing significant except Premiere, Activity Monitor and Finder. I have Optimized for Memory in preferences, and even tried Limiting Memory usage to 8GB (even though this refers to RAM, not VM).

I monitor Premiere steadily gobbling up resources as VM usage and Memory Pressure increase. I understand that the proximal cause of the error message is probably an excessive number of page faults triggered by the massive memory hogging by Premiere. However, the root cause is Premiere using so much memory.

My 1920x1080 project timeline and bin contain .MTS files (from AVCHD footage), .mpg files (converted via ffmpeg from .TOD files), One EPS graphic, Five .PNG graphics from PowerPoint, One Title, and less than 10 audio files extracted for editing in Audition.

When the export begins, Premiere estimates about 1 hour to encode my timeline. After about 35 minutes, Premier has used up over 60GB of VM which causes Yosemite to report an error, and pause the application.

One solution I suppose is to tell Premier to stop buffering so much content. I have a fast SSD with over 100GB remaining at the time of error, and I can live with the export taking an hour longer if some artifacts are left on disk.

Is there a way to tell Premiere to load less into Virtual Memory?

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    Correct answer gepetto77

    In File/Project Settings/Generel under "Video Rendering and Playback" switch the renderer from "Mercury Playback Engine GPU Acceleration (Open CL)" to "Software Only".

    It will be a slower render but at least it should render. Works for me anyways.

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    stevel76387034
    Inspiring
    June 28, 2015

    Hi there,

    I am now getting this error after updating to CC 2015. I did not previously have this problem. But now when I try to render sequences, after about 10 minutes I get the error that the system has run out of application memory. I'm then presented with two options- resume or force quit. When I resume, the computer freezes with the spinny rainbow pizza. When I force quit, Premiere closes, but the computer then becomes unresponsive and I have to force restart.

    I'm running Macbook Pro from 2014, with 16 gb of ram. I have 11 dedicated to Premiere and 5 for other applications. Nothing else is running, and there are no clear memory leaks. I tried switching to software rendering as suggested, but I encountered the same problem.

    Any ideas?

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    stevel76387034
    Inspiring
    June 28, 2015

    Changing the Mercury Playback Engine setting to Software Only seems to have fixed it. So I assume this is an OpenCL problem?

    James@doorbellmedia.com
    James@doorbellmedia.com
    Inspiring
    July 1, 2015

    Also on mid-2014 Macbook Pro with 16gb RAM. Odd thing is, I've been on PPro CC 2015 for a couple weeks now. I've been working on the same project for 3 days. I imported about 50 gb additional footage today and now I'm getting the "System has run out of application memory" error message.

    Changed Mercury Playback Engine setting to "Software Only" and fixed temporarily. Got the "System out of Application Memory" message again, but when I had Chrome open. The odd thing is that today is the first time I've ever gotten this error.

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    gepetto77Correct answer
    Inspiring
    February 16, 2015

    In File/Project Settings/Generel under "Video Rendering and Playback" switch the renderer from "Mercury Playback Engine GPU Acceleration (Open CL)" to "Software Only".

    It will be a slower render but at least it should render. Works for me anyways.

      ChrisTheWizard
      ChrisTheWizard
      Participant
      July 16, 2015

      sadly this didn't work for me...

      GAH is there a way to save down to cc 2014 because this bug forces me to hard reset my computer each time...

      JlkapnTax
      JlkapnTax
      Participant
      November 6, 2014

      Agreed. This Premiere eats too much memory and there is no way to stop it. I wish that there an option returned which allows setting a history limit for Premiere.

      VisionEars
      VisionEars
      Participating Frequently
      August 1, 2024

      Same problem here on PP and M1, but granting full disk access to PP looks like it does this trick.  Here is a link: https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/quick-tips-how-to-give-full-disk-access-to-lightroom-classic-on-macos/td-p/12913413?linkId=100000196562295&fbclid=IwAR2sGgjNm4A3eYsIPEvVeQ_BWSmoXugBW1nYvFiR8xsxAuvMPI3MeT0K7xs

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