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samgraff
samgraff
Participating Frequently
July 21, 2022
Question

"PproHeadless" is using OVER 160 GB - "Your system has run out of application memory" .. Force Quit

  • July 21, 2022
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My brand new Mac Studio is having issues when I run Premiere Pro and Media Encoder at the same time. Premiere Pro quits on me, and I'm prompted with Force Quit and the message, "Your system has run out of application memory. "To avoid problems with your computer, quit any applications you are not using." 

This is odd given my computer specs:

-Mac Studio, M1 Ultra, 20 Cores (16 performance and 4 efficiency) 128GB

I opened activity monitor and saw that "PproHeadless" is open and running twice, and using 107 GB and also 58 GB. What is it??? It's clearly a part of premiere (Applications/Adobe Premiere Pro 2022/Adobe Premiere Pro 2022.app/Contents/PProHeadless.app/Contents/MacOS/PProHeadless), but why is it taking up so much memory?? I never had any issues like this with my 2013 Mac Pro tower, and I was JUST editing the same project on that computer before this one arrived.  

 

What should I do to fix this???

3 replies

Convergnt
Convergnt
Inspiring
November 7, 2024

I am exploring the import suggestion to clear the file of memory leaks. For me this is new application behavior. Currently using Premiere 24.6.3, this has not previously been an issue on the 24.x software using the same Macbook M3 Pro with 36gb of ram. The dynamic link function with ME and AE appears to have changed in recent updates.

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Steve25638487nhkm
Participant
June 4, 2025

Just ran into the same issue.  My CPU was stuck at 100% while editing a video in Premier and Exproting in MEncoder.  I have an M1 Max with 64GB of ram and my old M1 Pro with 16GB of RAM never had this issue.  It seemed to have stemmed to an update to Premier and ME.   My Premier is v 25.2.3 and ME is v 25.2. The latest as of june 4th 2025.

  Not sure what PproHeadless is but it certainly is an issue.   It should have nothing to do with anything else thats going on with my computer since Ive been doing editing solid for the past 4 years 5 days a week. I can only just to conclusions is that either MacOS Sequioa 15.5 or Premier is the issue.  

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    Michael Grenadier
    Legend
    June 4, 2025

    are you using the same format media that you've previously used without issues?   And using any of the new Premiere features?

    Stan Jones
    Community Expert
    Stan JonesCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    July 21, 2022

    What are your memory allocations in PR preferences?

     

    Stan

    samgraff
    samgraffAuthor
    Participating Frequently
    July 21, 2022

    I'm allocating the maximum amount of memory to adobe applications that my computer will allow. 

    - Installed RAM: 128 GB

    - RAM reserved for other applications: 12 GB

    - RAM available for Ae, Pr, Pl, Me, Ps, Au: 116 GB

     

    It won't let me increase then RAM allocated to Adobe past that. I feel like that definitely **should** be sufficent, although for some reason it isn't. 

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    Michael Grenadier
    Legend
    July 29, 2022

    The amount of RAM I allocate to Adobe programs doesn't seem to matter here. Closing other applications doesn't make any difference either. Importing my old project into a new project didn't help. @Kevin-Monahan 

     

    Whenver I try to send several sequences out to Adobe Media Encoder, Adobe eats ALL my membory, I get low memory warnings and everything crashes. This shouldn't be happening considering my computer specs.

     

    The only solution to prevent my computer from crashing is that I literally have to export every sequence manually in Premiere (which is a huge waste of my time as a professional editor). 


    As a troubleshooting step, try running Premiere in rosetta (the intel version).  Your computer is very new and could be an issue with the new chip...  And the new chips supposedly have a completely new way of dealing with RAM.  

    Let us know if it media encoder functions properly in Rosetta...   

    samgraff
    samgraffAuthor
    Participating Frequently
    July 21, 2022

    I'm rendering through Premiere because Media Encoder kept causing my computer to crash. And now Premiere is using 82GB for some pretty basic exports... how is that even possible? This is definitely a Mac Studio issue. Any ideas on how I can make this run more smoothly / also use Media Encorder ever again (welp)?? 

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    Alexey25359977tbdc
    Participant
    July 23, 2022

    Hello, guys!

    MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2019) / 2,6 GHz 6‑core Intel Core i7 / 16GB 2667 MHz DDR4 / AMD Radeon Pro 5300M 4GB / MacOS Monterey 12.4 / Latest CC Premiere Pro 22.5.0

    Have the same problem. I am just doing simple basic cutting fullHD video from gopro8. And Premiere use 68GB of memory! Not rendering, no effects, no even color correction. So, Mac was relunch the system. And it starts again. As much time I work in project as much more ram is used. It was few gb from the start, than 22gb, now 30gb. 

    Never had this type of problems.

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