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I used to use final cut pro on a macbook Air and it wasn't that bad, but was kind of slow with the amount of footage I was editing. So, I went out and got a PC built to use Adobe Premier since I heard good things. Turns out Adobe is WAY slower than Final Cut pro on a laptop that has 1/4 of RAM than my PC. I know Premier is a lot more complex, but wow is it unbelievably slow to render videos imported. The footage I imported is a little over an hours worth of film and shot at 1080 resolution. I have plenty of memory space to utilize, so not sure what other troubleshooting I can do in this situation. Might have to go back to final cut pro.
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What are the complete computer specs, including hard drives (how many, what kind, what is on each, what capacity, and how full)?
If NVIDIA graphics, make sure to use the latest Studio Driver from NVIDIA (NOT the Game Driver).
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A couple of things:
The above said, it doesn't mean that there might not be something going wrong. Look at the other advice already offered. But so often it comes down to the media. All editing software has its different pros and cons, so maybe FCX is for you, but if Premiere generally had terrible performance for everybody, it wouldn't be used professionally. The blessing and the curse of Premiere is the low barrier of entry. You can make it pretty far and be creatively executing what you want without understanding the technical aspects of video editing, so you end up with a lot of people confused about performance.