Premiere Pro 14.2 on a MacBook Pro Late 2013, slow and near unresponsive

Spacer,

Is there anything I can do make this old machine run nomrally again? 

• Not really, but this machine should have the NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M, which is a 2 GB VRAM video card. Are you sure this machine lacks this GPU? 
• This machine should have a Thunderbolt 2 port. Do you have a Thunderbolt 2 SSD to connect to this computer? You should be placing all your media there and not on your boot drive. That would help.

Personally, I'd be looking to purchase a new computer in the very near future.

Good Luck,
Kevin

Sorry, but ... that is an old machine. I've had computers in the shop since the late '80s, and I don't actually know how many we've been through. My rig has needed to be the higher capability machine in the shop because I handle video post. My wife does still work professionally (that's our living, and unusual thing these days) but doesn't need nearly the power I do.

So our typical 'dance' every three years is I replace mine, it goes to her, hers goes to the conference/sales, that one goes to recycling.

Why? Programs always increase their complexity and capabilities over time, based on the newer hardware's ability to handle that complexity. The older rigs aren't capable of the complexity of the new machines ... and the programs are built for those newer rigs.

So ... with that machine ... proxies, certainly. That's about all it can handle.

Neil

I've moved this from the poorly named Community Help forum (which is the forum for issues using the forums) to the Premiere Pro forum.