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Lukachuu
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October 18, 2017
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Premiere Pro CC 2018 using 98% Memory

  • October 18, 2017
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2018 update came out; very excited, updated my Premiere Pro, started it up only to have it chew through my memory and sit at 98%.

I have 8Gb's installed RAM and around 6Gb's is allocated for Premiere Pro.

Anyone else having this problem?

Cheers

Oh and Adobe removed version 2017 which is very annoying as I have due projects. The older versions is 2013 or CS6, haha no.

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    eka nekko
    Known Participant
    December 25, 2019

    %Has anyone found a solution to this?

    I have the same problem all of a sudden on Premiere Pro 2018 for windows, memory goes up to 98% use. My RAM is 8 GB. And I've been editing larger projects before without a problem.

    Please help, I'm losing second day of work on this.

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    Sanaz-s
    Participant
    April 16, 2020

    Hey there, I am not sure if you found a solution or not. But I am also facing the same issue. I just purchased an iMac 2019 and it arrived this wee. It is a substantial investment for me to be able to edit and work from home since I don't have access to my university's suits during the pandemic.

     

    This is exactly what happens: When rendering a 50-minute film, which is only HD footage, the Activity Monitor shows that the premiere suddenly shoots up the memory usage.  All of a sudden from using 6-7 GB it goes all the way to 20, then 40, and then to 60GB, at which point the computer gives the message "there is not enough application memory."! 

    I have to force quit premiere and repeat the process which so far has resulted in no success.

     

    This iMac is brand new; it has a 3.6 8- core 1-9 processor, Radeon Pro Vega GPU, and 1TB SSD Storage, and 8GB RAM. I invested in the CPU and GPU and decided to upgrade the RAM later to 32 GB. I am in shock about this and very stressed, to be honest. The storage is basically empty as I always work from Hard Drives and since it is brand new I literally have nothing on the desktop yet. 

     

    Is this a premiere problem or the new macOS?

     

    Please help!!!

     

    Thank you from NY! 

     

     

    Anyone has 

    theewon
    theewon
    Participant
    November 3, 2017

    This is totally incorrect. And its a shame you have marked it correct.

    Denying others possible help from experts.

    The Software freezes uses up RAM even at startup with no media added to the project yet.

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      LukachuuAuthor
      Inspiring
      November 5, 2017

      Interesting because that doesn't happen to me. It opens up fine with memory sitting below 30%.

      The only time it causes high end memory and freezing is when I open up old projects that need to process the footage again; seems fine with just importing new footage.

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      oliviera64041327
      Participant
      October 18, 2017

      Hello.

      The same is happening to me. I tried to open a project with about 9 hours of video..

      Since the project is not compatible with this new version, I had to save it as another name, and Premiere started to do his usual stuff (I forgot the name now, sorry) but basically it is working on each video and you can see it happening on the bottom right.

      My computer crashed at first since it wasn't taking care of my memory preferences, it was using mostly ALL of my memory (32 GB).

      So I opened the task manager to see the memory used in total, open Premiere Pro, opened my project, and every time the memory was 90% full, I save the project, and quit Premiere Pro. And I relaunched PPro again, loaded my project, and did the same, as many times PPro needed to process my videos.

      Now it is working, so if you have to work on a big project and this is happening to you, that is a "workaround", but this is not a normal behaviour...

      Good luck!

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      Anonymous
      November 6, 2017

      I have the same problem. Every day I expect an update but nothing happens.

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        jriker1
        Known Participant
        December 3, 2017

        For me the problem isn't fixable by saving, closing and opening again.  Mine is happening during rendering.  I have 3 hours of video.  Numerous adjustment layers with Lumetri color.  When I say numerous, they are all on the same second layer, just multiple because I have had to color correct different parts of the video differently.  Plus a separate adjustment layer with unsharp.  Tried with Cuda without cuda on software, memory setting to performance or memory priority.  Adjusted down the memory premiere could use.  About 2/3 of the way thru it runs out of memory, app crashes.  In a lot of cases, the computer becomes unresponsive and have to hard reset it.  This is horrible.  And I already saved the project as a 2018 version so can't go back to 2017 as 2017 won't open it anymore.  Only thing I could think of similar to the editing suggestion.  To break the video into segments and encode each one separately, and perhaps try to splice them together afterwards?

        Note content is a single AVI file with Lagarith codec.  Have run this thru many time with 2017 so know it's not a file problem.  Also have 16GB of RAM and nothing else running.

        JR

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