Sudden and inexplicable memory leakage.

[Wellness Warrior]

I have been rendering the same types of exercise videos for the last 2 years on my Mac 16 RAM with no issues. Rendering usually take between 45 to 80 minutes for a 35 minute video depending on the content. I render 5 videos a week (one video for each day of the work week) and each video is exactly the same with the only difference being the muscle group targeted. About 4 weeks ago while preparing for the upcoming week I rendered the videos for Monday and Tuesday with no issue but when I moved onto the third video it said that the video would take almost 4 hours to render. Then after it reached 33% it paused stating that there wasn't enough application memory and I was intructed to force quit. What happened between video 2 and 3 that would cause this bug? I've looked through multiple forums and they were not helpful as they all seemed to point to an issue with memory, memory allocation, media cache, other opened apps, etc. None of the responses addressed why premiere pro rendering would be completely fine on Tuesday and then pop up with this issue on Wednesday rendering the same video. I know for sure that this is an issue with adobe as I moved the project to my laptop and recieved the same error. Keep in mind that just like with my Mac, I completed projects on my laptop all the time over the last 2 years with no problems. In fact I've never experienced this problem over many years using Premiere Pro. I even went as far as reinstalling my Mac software and then reinstalling the Adobe suite, then rendering the project again before installing any other applications and it still didn't make it past 33%. 

[Dani_V.]

Hi @Wellness Warrior,

Welcome to the Premiere Pro forums and sorry for the frustration. We need a few more details to help with issue like operating system version and exact version of Premiere Pro you are on.

A few questions: Were there any updates to your computer or apps between projects? What kind of media files are you working with? Are you using any effects, filters, After Effects compositions, or third party plug-ins? It's interesting it keeps happening at the same 33%.

Are you able to still export the previous videos you worked on? If you can, we might be able to narrow it down to it being project specific. How is the overall storage space on the computers you tested this with?

Hope we can help you soon,
Dani

[Wellness Warrior]

Mac Specs
Chip M1
Memory 16GB
Storage 2TB
macOS Sequoia 15.5
The remaining computer storage space is 1.69TB

MacBook Pro Specs
Chip M2 Max
Memory 32GB
Storage 1T
macOS Sequoia 15.5
The remaining computer storage space is 379GB

Adobe App
Premiere Pro Beta version 25.4

Media Files
MPEG-4
210MB
1920X1080
Timecode, MPEG-4 AAC, HEVC
Color Profile: HD (1-1-1)
4K
60 fps

I do use 2 third party plugins, but not on these compositions.

I use timers that I created in After Effects. The timers range from 10-sec to 3-min.

To answer your question: I am no longer able to export any of the previous videos that I worked on without it freezing unless the videos are less than 9 minutes.

When I attempt to render my last video on my MacBook, it freezes at 76% as apposed to 33% on the Mac.

[Dani_V.]

Thank you for the additional details @Wellness Warrior. You mentioned this is happening in the Beta version, have you tried it in the latest normal release of v25.3? Are the After Effects timers exported files or dynamic-link compositions?