Premiere has been heating my laptop massively, in prep for frying eggs.

Report · May 03, 2020

I've dug around the web a bit, but can't seem to find this heat related answer, directly connected to Premiere. Since I'm editing from home at the moment, I've been editing on my Macbook Pro (15' 2018, 2.2 GHz i7, 16gb ddr4, Radeon Pro 555x 4gb running Mojave 10.4.6 and Premiere (ver just before 14.1, so 14?) Sorry I upgraded to 14.1 on Friday before I shut everything down out of frustration.

Simply playing the timeline (HD with pan and scan photos and simple animated text on a 1 second project) frequently causes the fans to spin like mad. They go from 2100 rpm to 5000+. All six cores are close to maxed out and I could fry an egg on the back end of the laptop. I have looked at activity monitor a bit, but I'm not 100% sure what I should be looking for. Can't remember the numbers, but in some cases Premiere is using a lot of cpu memory, but other times not as much. Thur and Friday all my bin icons were struggling to show (ie just gray squares) on booting up and switching from color to graphics window views. I've had this heat problem happen with Adobe Media Encoder over several generations on both my laptop and an older MacPro, encoding just two HD projects to Vimeo 1080p. I found a workaround for AME, but can't seem to find one for Premiere.

Also, if I stop playing the timeline and minimize Premiere the laptop normally starts cooling off and the fans go down. Sometimes the only solution is to shut Premiere down completely. No other app (other than AME does this). Thoughts?

Thanks ahead of time for the help!

Report · May 03, 2020

There's definitely people on here that can go into more technical details on hardware. But Premiere primarily uses CPU to do the work so it's normal to see your CPU usage high, and fans spin up. Part of how a laptop deals with heat is through dissipation. It gets hot and that heat is absorbed into the air/other surfaces. They make laptop heatsinks/cooling pads to help with this. I also have a Macbook Pro (older than yours) and it definitely gets hot and the fans spin up when I do anything in Premiere.

Report · May 05, 2020

Thanks Philip. I just didn't remember in past versions of Premiere having this more severe heat on my laptop. And inconsistent. I can play the same simple edited time line 4 times through (unrendered) and the laptop doesn't heat up much, then later, on another play (with only a couple minor tweaks) of the time line, fans and core heat is nearly maxed out. Maybe something has changed with how the never versions of Premiere handle things? Makes me think laptops really weren't designed for heavy lifting, with so much crammed into such a small space.

Report · May 08, 2020

Ironically I cleaned my cache and preferences because Premiere was taking longer and longer to load. Premiere is loading much faster. And the byproduct seemed to help keep some tasks in Premiere from causing my laptop to get as hot.

Report · May 08, 2020

Hmm. Good to know. That's a good thing to do now and again anyway. Interesting that it would correlate to your heat/fan speed.