Premiere Pro Plugin slow loading when `PlayerDebugMode` not set.

Question

Hi, we are developing a plugin for Premiere Pro and noticed that when we load the plugin on Windows the initial loading can hang/crush Premiere. This though only happens if the `PlayerDebugMode` is not set.

This issue is happening on a release version of our plugin. Development version will obviously not open without the `PlayerDebugMode` beign set.

Not sure when this appeared as it is not widely reported from our users, but I can reproduce it locally so maybe if the machine is not slow its not noticable. We would expect the plugin taking the same time to load, or not hang the whole program.

Linking to a video showcasing the issue https://share.cleanshot.com/jCLsCL4L.

Premiere Pro Version: 24.5.0

Bruce Bullis · Accepted Answer

File count, not size, is the limiting factor.

Suhail36154911kr4q · Answer

We did some testing and noticed that this issues was present in previous versions of Premiere and our Plugin.

The underlying issues is with the size of the plugin, as Premiere does the signature check. This means the bigger the plugin the longer the signature check take. Not sure how much the number of files contributes to the time taken though.

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