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Lukachuu
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October 18, 2017
Question

Premiere Pro CC 2018 using 98% Memory

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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      LukachuuAuteur
      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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      LukachuuAuteur
      Inspiring
      October 18, 2017

      Spot on!

      Due to having a big project and premiere reloading all the footage again cause this high memory.

      But after many restarts and fully loaded the footage it's sitting fine now.

      I agree that this is not normal behaviour; still not happy that they removed version 2017.

      Cheers~

      Matthew Dudda
      Matthew Dudda
      Known Participant
      May 31, 2022

      This is beyond normal. A project which only has 3 layers, one sound track and lasts 30 seconds uses 30GB of my memory. I suspect it's because of the video format of one of the layers - *.mov

      But the posts are from 2017 and we are in 2022 and the problem still exists. I'm of the same opinion as CORRIDOR CREW that this program needs to be rewritten because it's already too much.

      30 seconds.
      3 layers
      1 soundtrack
      30GB RAM.

       

       

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