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Big Al 3D
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February 5, 2021
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Does Premiere and After Effects Have a Memory Leak?

  • February 5, 2021
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Mac OS Catalina 10.15.7, 2013 Mac Pro, 64 GB RAM

Premiere Pro 14.8

After Effects 17.6

 

I'm not sure which point release this began to happen, but I now constantly run out of system memory and have to force-quite the apps. My memory was set to keep 15 GB of RAM for the rest of my system. I just uppded that to 25 GB to other apps. Same result. I just did a test where I opened Premiere, did NOT open a project, and watched the memory usage with Activity Monitor. It started at 700+ MB. with a couple of minutes it had risen to 1.2 GB. From there, if left alone, it will continue to climb. I had left it open since last night and this morning, it was up to 156 GB. Yikes! Also, even without an memory warning, if I just quit Premerie, it will hang and show "Application Not Responding," but the memory will still creep up.

 

Did another test. My Mac at the office does not display this behavior. That Mac is running Catalina 10.15.2. Is there a know issue with Catalina 10.15.7?

 

What are the opinions on what a good memory should be? This behavior also happens with After Effects.

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Michael Grenadier
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February 5, 2021

by any chance are you working with cmyk graphics files?  we used to see all sorts of memory issues in fcp7 with this color space.  If so, convert to rgb.

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Big Al 3DAuthor
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February 5, 2021

Definitely no CMYK. As you can see in my post, this happen when I open them and don't do anything.

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Michael Grenadier
Legend
February 5, 2021

now I'm supposed to read the posts carefully before answering?   Something certainly weird is going on.  I'm wondering if there's something corrupt in your system.  Maybe try creating a new account with administrator privileges in system preferences:  users and groups and log out of the current user account and log in to the new account.  Launch Premiere without running any other programs and see if the problem persists.  

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