Slow response Premiere Pro

Report · Aug 11, 2018

Hi,

I have a very powerful computer.

i9-7940x CPU (14 core)

64GB Ram

Nvidia 1080Ti

Two SSD, an HDD and some external drives,

3 screens connected

Still I have a lot of problems getting premiere to run smoothly, If I press the play button it usually takes 5-15 seconds for the video to play back (sometimes only audio plays, sometime nothing happens, and sometimes I get the yellow "media pending" screen).

I edit footage from the Sony a7 mk iii, DJI phantom 4 pro, and some GoPros (everything i 4K). I still believe my computer should be able to handle this. Does anybody know why it is so slow, or have any tips? Would greatly appreciate it!

I have my media stored on a fast external drive, and I have divided the rest of the scratch disk setup to different harddrives.

Report · May 30, 2023

I'm in this situation. I'm having problems playing and editing from an external mechanical hard drive. With Davinci Resolve everything run smooth with premiere at every action I take (add edit, cut, paste) I have to wait more than 15 seconds to get the control back. With the same HDD and my previous computer I can work with the new one everything seems a nightmare. I have SSD as well and there it works better but I have tons of mechanical HDD with project I need to open very often so I need to work with those hard drives as well. I think there is something that adobe need to investigate.