Premiere Pro 2024 Unacceptably Slow.

Report · Oct 21, 2023

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.

Report · Oct 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.

Report · Oct 30, 2023

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

Report · Oct 30, 2023

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

Report · Nov 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.

Report · Jan 02, 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.

Report · Jan 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.

Report · Jan 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?

Report · Jan 16, 2024

Adobe makes it very easy. Open your Creative cloud app. Left column, click Apps. Find the app you want an older version of (e.g. Premiere Pro) in the list. Click the three dots on the right side. Close "other versions" click the second one of the list to go back one version. It will uninstall the current version and replace it.

Report · Jan 22, 2024

Recently solved some big probelms by removing my 3rd party extensions. Tried getting the latest PP download to see if the extensions were the issue there as well. They were not. Back to the earlier versions I go.

Report · Jan 22, 2024

I notcie the same thing. Beach ball circling with ever action, I have 128 gigs of Ram and have been edinting just fine up until this version. Doubling my editing time for simple projects due to aiting for software to catch up to key straoke and mouse clicks.. Maybe time to move to Divinci

Report · Feb 05, 2024

Update from me:

on the advice of Bruce @ Adobe, I have been running the latest "beta" version for a week now.

In addition, I'm working on the same project ...but I stripped out older, finished videos - greatly reducing project size.

I have yet to experience the issue I was having before.

I'm suspect that that the issue I was having was related to something media/transcription related.

(I could not try reducing the project until the other videos were mastered and delivered.)

Report · Feb 09, 2024

Adobe Premiere Pro 2024 is by far the worst Premiere Pro update I've ever had in all my years of using Premiere Pro. It's simply unusable.

I keep getting the spinning wheel (Mac) whilst doing the most basic of tasks and has brought my workflow to pretty much a stand still. I'm on a more than sufficient machine (16 inch M1 max, 64GB RAM, 2 TB storage) and I've checked storage, RAM usage and caches but nothing fixes the issues. Clearing the caches fixes the issue for maybe 20 mins? Then the same problems persist again and again.

I have absolutely no idea what Adobe have done with this update, but it should be avoided until (hopefully) Adobe sort out these issues, which I highly doubt. I have downgraded to Premiere Pro 2023 and everything works PERFECTLY.

This is simply not good enough for the amount that people pay for the creative cloud subscription. Sort it out!

Report · Apr 30, 2024

For me it is not that extreme, but i did notice , to stabalise a 100 frames of footage, it takes less than 1 minute before the update, and now its 4 minutes, not to mention all the frezzes, spinning wheels, what these things do is they conctantly breaking up my chain of thoughts when editing.

It is so bad that it drives me to purchase a Davinci resolve studio and forced me to learn a new software (im a slow learner).. But I did the same stabalisation on davinci , it literall took 3 seconds....

Report · Jun 11, 2024

AWFUL UPDATE. Every change on the timeline causes the video line to refresh, which takes agonizing minutes, something that used to take no more than a couple of seconds even on very large videos.

Report · Sep 11, 2024

Literally every button click takes a minute to register - even something as small as adjusting the size of the work panes, which isn't even actually editing anything. The program is completely unusable, and I've tried everything from updating my drivers, updating Windows, restarting the computer, uninstalling and reinstalling Premiere...nothing works. When I check my task manager, I'm only using 26% of my CPU and 15% of my memory, and every other program on my computer works just fine, including some pretty CPU-intensive games. It's specifically Premiere that suddenly is complete garbage ad I don't know what to do about it.

Report · Sep 11, 2024

I was finding my issues were related to transcriptions. I eventually got around it by upgrading the project to the Beta version. haven't left beta program since. Hope that helps!

Report · Sep 16, 2024

Honestly I'm so pissed at adobe, I have the same issues and the only thing i can do is go through forums and search for solutions, when there should be a direct way to get in touch with them !! it's so frustrating since I pay so much every month, I'm really considering stopping my subscription bc 67€ / a month for apps that dont work is a scam.

Anyway, I just tried something (lol what company lets his clients try stuff to fix problems instead of fixing them with updates) that seemed to work for me, it's still a bit slow but at least I can finally playback my footage (very convenient for an editing software) . I went to project settings, colors, and switched the 3DLut interpolation from tetraedrical to trilinear (sorry it's french, trying to translate as good as i can). Let me know if it works for you !

Report · Oct 21, 2024

This update is horrible. I edit with two timelines open and the lag time is over 3 seconds clicking back and forth in the timelines on multiple computers, laptops, remote systems. I need to be quick in premiere and this update is slowing me down so much i want to throw my computer out the window.

I can't downgrade because we upgraded company-wide & we're all using 24.6.3.

FIX THIS FRANCIS IM LOSING MY MIND AND WORRIED THAT 2025 WILL BE WORSE

Report · Oct 21, 2024

I was having the same problems then opened my projects in beta and they are blazing fast. I only use the beta now.

Report · Mar 31, 2025

I’m posting an update here: I ended up completely wiping my internal drive and manually reinstalling all my apps with fresh settings/preferences. This greatly speeded up my Premiere performance. So, so, so many bugs went away too.

Also, I recently came across a ProVideo Coalition post which explained to me (for the first time) that the hierarchy of Adobe Premiere Pro files must be that the project's source materials be in the same folder at PremierePro’s project. Since 2020 I’ve been storing projects in ADJACENT folders, which I believe is the reason why my files would keep unlinking. Not only did this appear to solve the linking problem, but linking files happens much faster now and Premiere runs even more smoothly, sI’m posting this here as a naked admission of ignorance and mild stupidity in the hopes this helps other people.

https://www.provideocoalition.com/tool-tip-tuesday-for-adobe-premiere-pro-dont-bury-projects/