Premiere Pro 2025 Crashes and Takes too much Volumes

[Philipp-David]

Since the usage of premiere pro 2025, my mac crashes and freezes, since the volumes get to over 50GB, even though i am working with a very small project. It happens after a while and i dont know why. Never had this problem with the other Premoere Pro versions. I also cannot export. Very strange. I also have enough storage on my mac...

[Warren Heaton]

@leem95275565 

When Premiere Pro 2025 prompted you to save your 24x version project as a 25.x version project, you should have noticed that the filename was the same with an “_1” appended to it.  If you proceeded to save at that point, then you have both the 24.x project and the 25.x project.  For example, for a 25.x project named “Upgrade Best Practices_1.prproj” there would be a separate 24.x project named “Upgrade Best Practices.prproj”.  As long as Premiere Pro 2024 is still installed or is re-installed via Creative Cloud Desktop, the 24.x version of the project file should open as expected.

If the “_1” was removed and you saved over the 24.x version then it is now a 25.x version project file; however, if you have not worked for too long in Premiere Pro 2025, then most if not all of the auto-save projects should be version 24.x.  Try opening the auto-save project files in Premiere Pro 2024 from newest to oldest.

So that you don’t accidentally open a 24.x PRPROJ file in Premiere Pro 2025 again, be sure to set the “Open With” option for Premiere Pro project files to Premiere Pro 2024 in the Info dialog box (File > Get Info) while any PRPROJ file is selected in the Finder.

In your Creative Cloud Desktop application, it sounds like you want to make sure that Auto-Update is disabled and that “Remove old versions” is disabled.  With that set, you’ll receive an alert to update to a new release and when or if you do, you’ll always have the release that you were using (in this case 2024) installed along side the new release (in this case 2025).

Continue to work in Premiere Pro 2024 until you resolve what is causing the crash in Premiere Pro 2025.  You mentioned that you’re on an “M3 Ultra MacBook Pro”.  It must be an M3, M3 Pro, or M3 Max as there is no M3 Ultra MacBook Pro.  With an M3 based MavBook Pro, a likely cause of Premiere Pro 2025 not working as expected is a conflict with a third-party plug-in, extension, or add-on.  A troubleshooting step would be to check to see if updates are available for those.  Another thing to try it to start a new, empty 25.x version project and then import your 24.x project into that.  When saving, be sure to include something in the 25.x version project filename that makes it easy to differentiate it from the 24.x version project.  For example “Upgrade Best Practices pr24.prproj” is a good name for a version 24.x project file while "Upgrade Best Practices pr25.prproj” is a good name for a version 25.x project file.

[Sweetpotatotyler]

Has anyone found a fix to this problem yet? My premiere won't stop crashing whenever I bring footage into a new project. I've tried rolling back to premiere 2024 and it's having the same problem. 2024 was fine for me before but now it's crashing the same as when I updated to 2025. I don't know what to do, I have clients waiting for videos and I'm unable to open projects for more than a couple minutes before they crash. This is absolutely unaccaptable. I may not have another choice than to switch to Davinci or Final Cut and I really don't want to but I'm not the last straw with adobe.

[antumartin91]

Same issue on Macbook M3 Pro 18gb and 1080p multicamera project. Constant crashing and low memory alert. Same kind of projects doesnt make any problem on Premiere 2024, its annoying

[Sfearman]

My issue is it takes forever to load up (more than 5 mins sometimes. I haven't rendered anything yet on 2025 but I am going to try this afternoon with a 3 min video with minimal effects etc. I have a RTX 4070 SUPER, 128 gb ram, 19-9900, 3.6ghz, running windows 10 Pro...no excuse for this.

[SeanDocFilmGuy]

Am in the middle of huge documentary project - several timelines filled with many hours of 4K footage - updated to PP 2025 and immediately ran into major issues. Takes forever to load. Have read everyone notes and tried all suggestions. No change. Just waited 45 minutes for it to fully load all the audio in my sequence - and so i've just now switched back to 2024 - but gonna lose 2 days of work that i put into the 2025 version. So much uncertainty. Search for stability is ever ongoing and safety is an illusion. As Whinston Churchill put it "Keep Buggering On!"

iMac 5K, 27-inch, 2019

Processor: 3.7 Ghz 6-Core Intel Core i5,

Graphics: Radeon Pro 580X 8 GB

Memory 32 GB 2667 Mhz DDR4

macOD: Sonoma 14.6.1

[Jamie36068236qgf7]

I just reset preferences, cleared the cache, plug in cache and disabled third party plug-ins. Seems to be working ok for now!

[Dawid33985840scse]

Have the same Issues. PP crashing constantly. MacBook Pro M1 Max hier, Sonoma 14.6.1.

I event cant open a new Project with PP 2025. It crashing as soon as I save the Projectname. 

Going back to 24.6 Version. 

[Vlady_Valentin]

Same issue here. Updated from Premiere Pro 24.6.3 to 25.0 and it has been crashing non-stop ever since. I'm on OS Sonoma. Quite annoying and tiresome. I switched from Davinci to Premiere due to a regular editing gig that made Premiere a requirement (because of mogrts connected to After Effects). I really like Premiere but these crashes are worrying me...

[Vlady_Valentin]

Update to my post from yesterday:

I think I spotted the source of crashing in my case > Essential Sounds > Enhance Speech. I had played around with it and so it was enabled and loading everytime I was going through my raw footage. I removed all settings/sound presets from all my audio footage and so far no crashing. Maybe this is helpful for some of you out there. 

[postmanRoulin]

also happening in Illustrator and Photoshop 2025--crashing frequently. going back to 2024.

[andreas1701]

I've had nothing but problems since the update... all of a sudden Premiere Pro is taking up any available resources (RAM, CPU) and my machine has crashed 3 times in the last 24 hours. Never had this issue before. I understand I dont have the top of the line here, but 32GB DDR5 RAM and an RTX 3050 shouldn't be so bad to the point where its unusable, especially for basic edits without anything other than a light color grade and the occasional blur and speed ramp here and there. Completely ridiculous.

[Anilkumar Yadav]

Today I used premier pro 2025 beta version for render a video, now
excellent performance with fast, smooth & buttery rendering video.

[stevel84653279]

Recently upgraded to 2025 across all Adobe apps and seeing tons of lag. Premiere exports that typically take a couple of minutes showing as an hour. Other than rolling back, not really sure of a fix. Might finally be time to switch fully to Davinci.

[Carloshmx]

Pretty frustrating... It seems that you need to find a "trick" to make this app work as it should be. Playback is slow, after 5 minutes of having the project open.  Running it from a macbook pro 3... it shouldnt run that way.

[default0falau7bx917]

Same... I have an m3pro with Sequoia and I started working on a project in Premiere 25 and it's so laggy it's completely unusable to work with. And after going back to Premiere 24 as a possible fix, which works fine, the project obviously can't get converted backwards and all my work is lost.

Adobe needs a major update ASAP! I literally can't work and if I can't edit, I don't get paid. This makes me seriously consider leaving premiere now.

[Katrien5CCD]

Same issue here. Upgraded to Premiere Pro 2025 and the software is crashing all the time, freezing on tasks I never had a problem with. This is unacceptable as I rely on this software for work. 

Also not trying to be rude, but considering switching to Da Vinci 

[gabrielborghi]

The same problem is happening to me... Preview crashing and other computer activities too.

In the previous version and with the Sonoma the problem was with glitches, now with the 2015 version and the Sequoia it is impossible to work with this slowness...

[Michael22712028aqba]

Yup agree with lots of people here. Since 'upgrading' to Premiere Pro 2025 it keeps hanging when switching between sequences, playback is stuttery, proxies sometimes seem to detach for no apparent reason. Macbook Pro M4Pro 14/20 with 24Gb RAM. It even appens with no other applications open. Activity monitor doesn't suggest the mac is struggling - everything green, nor should it be struggling, . Premiere Pro 2024 was ok. Unfortunately 2025 made me resave projects into new format so not sure I can use the project I'm working on in 2024 

[Pablinsky]

Completely agree, here I have been waiting for hours for a simple render, apparently the problem lies in applying "essential sound" changes to the clips, because out of nowhere my entire project uses 100% of the GPU and CPU.
Version 2025 does not seem very stable to me, I will return to 2024 until they fix this problem.

Processor: AMD RYZEN 75800X 8core 

Graphics: RXT 3060ti 

Memory 56 GB 3600 Mhz DDR4

WINDOWS 10

[Pablinsky]

No, no hay ningún cambio, aparte del problema de sonido esencial, estoy tratando de renderizar AF Dynamic Links dentro de mi proyecto Premiere ... APARENTEMENTE, ME ESTÁ TOMANDO 16 HORAS... Estoy muy estresado, esto no ha sucedido hace 2 semanas

[Pablinsky]

No, there is no change apart from the essential sound issue, I am trying to render AF Dynamic Links within my Premiere project... IT IS TAKING ME 16 HOURS apparently... I am very stressed, this has not happened 2 weeks ago

[SiaV]

Same here!!!
MacBook Pro M3 Pro 14" with 18 GB RAM and a 512 GB SSD, running macOS Sequoia 15.1

I started experiencing issues with Adobe Premiere Pro 2025. After running for a while, it gives me a "Force Quit Applications" message. I’ve attached screenshots of the issue.

This happens even when I’m only using Adobe Premiere Pro. When it happens, I have to quit the application, reopen it, and then it works for a while before the memory usage in Activity Monitor starts to spike again, leading to the same error.

This issue didn’t occur before on 2024. Premiere Pro 2024 used to run smoothly and efficiently.
Any Soloution?!

[gabrielborghi]

Guys, the temporary solution is to go back to the 2024 version. And to open projects from the 2025 edition in the previous version, export the projects in XML.