Premiere Taking Up 100% RAM

[Raj5FAC]

Just for background infomation, my laptop has 16 gb ram and this is a problem that only happens for long videos (like 1 hour in length). So, in Premiere 2021 version, when I start exporting long videos, the RAM usage just keeps rising up and when the ram fills up, the exporting crashes and stops. I have set ram usage limit to 6/8 GB in Preferences, but during exporting, it passes that limit and goes upto 12 GB ram usage. I didn't have this problem in the 2019 version but that version didn't use nvidia gpu for some reason (even after selecting CUDA) which is solved in 2021 but now I have this too much RAM usage problem. If anyone has any suggestions, you are welcome.

[basil1891]

1) Change 'Optimize rendering ..' to "Memory"  (go Edit > Preferences > Memory.. )

2) Turn off Hardware accelerated Decoding in Preferences > Media... (do app restart)

[Raj5FAC]

I already had 'optimize rendering' set to memory. After seeing this, I also turned off hardware accelerated decoding but nothing changed:( Premiere is still taking up all the ram during exporting.

[Peru Bob]

Try resetting the preferences:
https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro/faq-how-to-reset-trash-preferences-in-premiere-pro/td-p/...

If that doesn't work, try resetting the Workspaces:
Reset a workspace
Reset the current workspace to return to its original, saved layout of panels.
1. Do one of the following:
• Click the Workspace menu icon and select Reset to Saved Layout.
• Choose Window > Workspace > Reset to Saved Layout.
from here:
https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/workspaces.html

If that doesn't work, try Preferences > Audio Hardware and set Input to None.

If that doesn’t work, try updating or rolling back your graphics driver directly from the video card manufacturer’s site. If NVIDIA, do a clean install of the latest Studio Driver (NOT the Game Driver).

If that doesn't work, try creating a new project and import the old one into it.

[Raj5FAC]

I tried all of them but I still have the problem 😞