Premiere Pro M4 Mac Chip Optimization

Question

I just got a Mac with the new Apple M4 Chip with 16 GB of RAM memory. I used to have a Mac created in 2021 with the M1 Chip. I launched premiere pro thinking that it would run smoother and faster but to no avail.

I uploaded my raw footage and the playback was atrocious it was choppy the entire time.

This is despite me putting the playback to 1/4, this is despite me having the GPU acceleration renderer to Mercury Playback Engine (Metal), and I'm reserving the most amount of RAM possible for adobe products.

Everything else on my computer seems to run smoothly it's just Premiere Pro that is currently giving me issues. I even tried to download an earlier version of Premiere (24) and didn't work. Even DaVinci Resolve was slow for me.

Any ideas of what I can do to fix this?

PaulMurphy · Answer

Can you share more details about the raw footage you’re trying to play?

For example:

Codec (H.264, HEVC, ProRes, etc.)
Frame size and frame rate
Where the media came from (camera, phone, screen recording)

This info will help narrow down whether the issue is media-related rather than hardware.

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