Premiere Pro - Using too much memory 100GB+

[Morgan29803041oxel]

Hello,

On the Premiere Pro 2023 version, I am experiencing high memory usage. There's about 3 TB of footage/photos/music in my project...the memory usage will grow to be as much as 100GB. This issue has been replicated onto a new laptop. My previous laptop of 16GB, would crash while working on my project. I haven't experienced a crash yet on the new laptop, but the memory usage is still going very high. Please, let me know if I can provide any other information to help find a solution to this.

Laptop specs - Macbook Pro i7 CPU 32GB RAM M1. 

[courtney_1639]

Hello, 
I was having the same issue yesterday and today on a project that I'd been working on for 2 days. I tried all the recommended things here as best as I could, not being an overly techy person I spent most of 2 days on searching and trying things. I eventually gave up and uninstalled the current version of Premiere Pro and installed an older (2024) version. I'm restarting all my edits. One of the things that I tried before resorting to this was down grading my project and opening it in Premiere Pro 2024, but it was still blowing up. I don't have more time to spin my wheels on this so hopefully PP2024 doesn't start doing the same thing after I'm 2 days in. 

[aliBrad]

Hi all,

I checked in wondering, if a solution or explanation was found...

So my issue kind of "disappeared" after trying out what ideas I found here and else where as probable approaches to handle it...which one led to a change I am not sure really. So for a few weeks 🙂 things went ok.

This week I come back to a project after a while (some versions of PPro had passed) that is quite huge to be fair, but never caused any such problem (why?).  And here we are again...does anybody have a clue? Yes, proxies are a solution...there might be more sustainable ones?

Thanks so much for your support.

Best regards from Germany

[Ishan Y]

Hey aliBrad,

I'm sorry to hear that you're experiencing this issue. Could you share your current Premiere Pro version and some details about your project? Does it happen with specific source files or projects? What effects are used in your project (if any)? Does closing non-essential background tasks help? I'll use these details to branch this discussion to a new thread for troubleshooting. 

Thanks,

Ishan

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