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Adam330800582wii
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October 21, 2023
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Premiere Pro 2024 Unacceptably Slow.

  • October 21, 2023
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I don't know what happened with this update, but oh boy is it bad.

 

I'm running a 2021 MBP 16" with the M1 Pro chip and 16gb ram (Ventura 13.2.1). This machine normally handles all of the editing I do with zero effort whatsoever. 

 

In Premiere Pro 2023 any one of my videos took maximum 5 minutes to export. Now I'm sitting here after exporting for an HOUR and it's only 26% done. It also caused my computer to get hot for literally the first time ever since I bought it back in March 2022.

 

Also while editing there was a tremendous amount of lag doing even something simple like moving a rectangle on screen with the essential graphics window. It's unbelievable how bad it is.

 

Exact same workflow, absolutely nothing changing. Super light editing of an mp4 file with literally two titles put on top..... honestly nothing that couldn't be done in iMovie. 

 

I converted my project file created in 2024 using premiere downgrader so I could open it in 2023. Same problems. 

 

Anyway....Needless to say I uninstalled premiere 24.0 and I'm back to the latest version of 2023. I'm just praying that once this export is done I can go back to starting my projects in 2023 and get back to my old exporting in 5 minutes way.

    Correct answer Adam330800582wii

    UPDATE: The problem was due to inserting a 8896x6724 PNG logo into my project that was to appear on screen throughout the video. Even though the PNG was less than 1MB, it seems the extremely large dimensions (even though I scaled it down to 4%) caused the performance and export issues. I inserted a much smaller dimension version of the file and now it's back to normal performance. 

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    andres31129867d8d7
    Participant
    January 16, 2024

    Hey there @FPS_Fish - I'm experiencing the same problem. How do you downgrade or go back to the previous version via Creative Cloud?

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      FPS_Fish
      Inspiring
      January 16, 2024

      When I jumped to 24.1 I immediately started getting huge lags on my system. Every operation there was a long pause, spinning beach ball, then it would do it. I went back a version (24.03) and it went away. That was December. This month I tried it again only I created a brand new project and moved my folders from the old one into it.  Sadly, the problem returned. And so I went back a version again.

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        justinl52937132
        Participant
        January 2, 2024

        Same. This update is giving me a pinwheel on very basic tasks that casused no lag before. I'm using a Mac Studio M2 Max with 64GB of ram and it feels like I'm editing on a 6 year old macbook. 

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          ab33691866
          Participant
          November 16, 2023

          Same problem, updated and then everything became superslow. I spoke with support and they advised me to upgrade more memory. Did 332 Gb RAM. Nothing! Computer is a faster beast but Premier is slow almost the same!

          This update has good ideas in menu and much more user friendly, but it is extrmely lagging and looks like saving files incorrectly. Dissapointed. 

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            Dan27407918zbpm
            Inspiring
            October 30, 2023

            Did you have a large image somewhere on your timeline like he did? 

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              john asher33243041rg4q
              Participant
              October 30, 2023

              I have the same problem. It took nearly 2 hours for me to export a video less than 2 minutes! 

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                Adam330800582wiiAuthorCorrect answer
                Participant
                October 21, 2023

                UPDATE: The problem was due to inserting a 8896x6724 PNG logo into my project that was to appear on screen throughout the video. Even though the PNG was less than 1MB, it seems the extremely large dimensions (even though I scaled it down to 4%) caused the performance and export issues. I inserted a much smaller dimension version of the file and now it's back to normal performance. 

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