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Vladlust
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September 28, 2019
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Premiere lagging on decent computer

  • September 28, 2019
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Hey! Thank you for taking the time to check my post!

 

So I've been struggling the last few days trying to make Premiere Pro work smoothly, but I'm unable to. Before I continue banging my head against my monitor I thought someone here could help me.

First, let me give you some details about my computer:

 

Ryzen 7 2700

16 GB DDR4 RAM

Radeon RX 560 4GB VRAM

Samsung 850 EVO 250 GB SSD

MSI Gaming Plus x470

Windows 10 64 Bits

 

I'm using Adobe Premiere Pro 2019 v13.1 and the main footage I'm using is in Full HD. The main edits I'm doing is adding images and movement/zoom changes, nothing too fancy.

 

The issue I'm experiencing in general is lag, the software takes a lot of time to respond, preview is laggy and so is the timeline. When I hit play it takes a few seconds to start, and a few seconds to stop, and the arrow when playing jumps around instead of progressing smoothly.

What's most weird is that I've been monitoring my PC's performance when struggling, and Adobe is not really pushing my hardware. CPU goes up to 30%, only 9 GBs of my 16 GBs of RAM are used, my SSD goes up to 15% and my GPU stays at around 10-15%.

 

Here's what I've tried so far:

-Lowered playback resolution

-Turned off high quality playback

-Made proxies, I've tried proxies made by Adobe Media Encoder and Handbrake. I'm new to proxies so any recomendations on what formats I should use is appreciated. I've heard that if my footage is H264 (which I imagine it is), proxys are kind of a must, and they've helped but not much.

-Increased the priority of Premiere on the Task Manager to Real Time

-Increased how much RAM Premiere can use on its settings to the max (12.9)

-Changed the renderer to Mercury Playback Engine GPU Acceleration (OpenCL)

-Made sure my GPU's drivers were up to date and updated my BIOS to the latest version

-Tested my hardware with benchmark software, I was able to stress my CPU, RAM, SSD and GPU to around 100%

 

So that's it, first off if anyone can verify if my hardware should be good enough to work with Full HD footage, and if it's normal for adobe to use so little resources even when lagging as much.

 

Any recomendations or tips are super appreciated!

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Peru Bob
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November 29, 2022

Thread locked.

John T Smith
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John T SmithCommunity Expert
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September 28, 2019

SSD = Solid State Device = all Ram, no spinning platter

 

But only 1 drive of any kind is not good for video editing... you need at least 2 drives, so operating system and programs are on your boot drive and everything else is on the 'at least' one other drive

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    VladlustAuthor
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    September 28, 2019
    I'll make sure to get a second ssd for project files and see how that works. Thanks John!
    Peru Bob
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    Peru BobCommunity Expert
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    September 28, 2019

    To add to Kevin's comments:

    250 GB is kind of a small drive for OS and apps.  After a while, even Windows updates will be eating up a lot of that.

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      VladlustAuthor
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      September 28, 2019
      Yeah, I can tell that I'm definitely stretiching it, I just wanted to make the most of it since I have no other SSDs, but I hope to buy an M.2 one of 1TB soon. And on Kevin's recommendation I'll put the OS and project files on separate disks!
      Kevin-Monahan
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      Kevin-MonahanCommunity Manager
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      September 28, 2019

      Vladlust,

      Sorry for your performance woes. Do you have your OS on one hard drive and your media on a second media drive? Or do you have the whole kit and kaboodle spinning around on a single drive? Short answer: you need a 2nd media drive; high speed, ideally. 7200RPM + or better.

       

      Thank You,
      Kevin Monahan

      Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community and Engagement Strategist – Adobe Pro Video and Audio
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        VladlustAuthor
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        September 28, 2019
        I do have both my OS and project files on the same SSD, thanks for letting me know! I'm using a Samsung 860 EVO 500GB SSD and I can't find how many RPMs it runs on. Do you know where I can find this info?
        MyerPj
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        MyerPjCommunity Expert
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        September 28, 2019

        What format did you create your proxies in? Cineform, 720p would be great.

          Kevin-Monahan
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          Kevin-MonahanCommunity Manager
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          September 28, 2019
          Agree. I use ProRes Proxy. That works well too.
          Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community and Engagement Strategist – Adobe Pro Video and Audio
          John T Smith
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          John T SmithCommunity Expert
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          September 28, 2019

          Have you clicked this 'featured' post? https://community.adobe.com/t5/Premiere-Pro/Fixing-stuttering-and-slow-playback-in-Adobe-Premiere-Pro/td-p/10524500

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            VladlustAuthor
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            September 28, 2019
            Hey John, thanks for your message! I did see this post as soon as I found the community, I think I covered most of the tips mentioned and it was strange to me that most of my hardware resources weren't being used, that's why I created the post. Let me know if there are some tips on the post that I should take a second look at!
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