Premiere Pro 22.1.2 slow and freezes - Mac
Afternoon everybody.
Using Premiere 22.1.2 on a Mac Mini, M1 chip, 16gb RAM.
The application ran smoothly and efficinetly, with quick responses until last Friday afternoon where it decided to slow down to an unusable speed. Playback is still fairly decent, however I am almost unable to scroll through the timeline, any click takes at least 5 - 10 seconds to respond, footage takes a while to load up. If I exit the application and re-open it tends to work as should for a period; it's usually as soon as I open up the colour correction panel or effect panel where the issue kicks in. Even if I disable all effects or remove any colour changes, Premiere still runs unresponsive and inpractical.
Source footage is stored on an external HDD. I'm usually working H.264 - I have attempted to see whether transcoding to ProRes would help and also used Proxies but both failed to fix the problem.
I have also tried:
Clearing the cache
Using full playback and HQ playback
Unistalled and Renistalled
Installed older 2021 version
Clearing trash preferances
Optomised rendering for performance
Disabled Mercury Transmit
Disabled Refresh Growing Files
I use Premiere for my work and it's currently in an unusable state. Any help would be much appriciated.
