Premiere Pro 2022 M1 MacBook Pro slow/lagging playback

turns out Premiere 22.2.2 is buggy. downgrade to 22.1.2 and it works as it should be.

@innokentiy, FC feels smoother than Premiere, but it demands more disk space as it creates a lot of stuff, as pre-renders (which you can disable) or proxies. I got 700GB FC project size for 60GB of original media. But I learnt it in just one day and love the timeline and the options thought it is more limited than Premiere (no integration with after effects, no panels customization, tools aren't shown at once and so on) Timeline shows all the frames as iOS or iMovie does, so quite fast finding a specific frame, and scrubbing feels smooth and so fast is amazing (4K stuff REAL time)

Render time with compressor also amazing, with half CPU usage (I could edit Lightroom pics no lag in the meanwhile), 22 minutes render time for a 2 hours HD H265 file

Hey Guys... I have a Mac Studio M1 MAX and my Premiere was too slow to play, to move the timeline... Practically everything on it was very slow... I uninstalled it from the Crative Cloud panel, asked to remove all preferences, restart the machine and reinstall the latest version. That worked. He's gone back to being Very Fast in everything!

I've had these issues in the past too. Only thing that really ever helped was to reinstall Premiere Pro. It's such a massive program that uses so many files/libraries/executables/etc. that many other things also use.

Instead of just dropping the application in the trash can open its folder in Applications and click the Uninstall icon and follow the steps to completely remove it or it also should be under Applications>Utilities>Adobe Installers>Uninstall Premiere Pro. It should ask you to keep your own work but you may want to make sure things get backed up properly.

Then go back into Adobe Cloud and request the download again. It doesn't hurt to do this all in Safe Mode if you are really concerned. Also booting into Safe Mode rebuilds the kernel and fonts caches and prevents the loading of various things. You just can't stay in Safe Mode after you reinstall Premiere Pro because your audio and video capabilities and graphics processor probably won't be functional.

The download size and complexities of Adobe anything are a bit of a headache to deal with which results in me never having anything up to date. Also, you could *try* downloading the Beta version of Premiere Pro or any Adobe software from the Adobe Cloud app. There's a section in there like under Downloads or something where the Beta version can be downloaded. If not you there should be a link on their website somewhere. Depending on the update I've had times when the main version will have a bug that makes it crash or whatever and the Beta one works just fine and vice versa. It's the same features and layout for the most part btw. Also be sure you're on the latest versions of any software and macOS.

Updating to MAC OS Monterey 12.3.1 fixed the issue.

By apps do you mean all of the annoying helper processes like "AdobeIPCBroker" etc.? I can't stand those and haven't looked into any of them much in detail but I think that a lot of them are required for something. That's part of why I was suggesting to use the Adobe Uninstall app/feature because it should clean up all of the tag-alongs that came with a particular program. I think unfortunately the bulk of them come from the Cloud app itself.

The thing is they don't need to be running when you aren't using Adobe but the property list that launches them has made it's way into your /Library/Preferences or System Preferences or elsewhere and they are automatically launched at startup. A few might be removable under the Login Items area in System Preferences>Users but it's not much use. You can remove the plist files in the Terminal app, but it won't be easy.

I think many of the processes are required to use Adobe anything though. Since Cloud is a subscription-based software they have a lot of various mechanisms that make sure people pay.

I'd say leave them alone unless you are totally purging everything and starting fresh and re-installing and they still linger. If they are causing problems or using too much CPU, investigate in Activity Monitor and check the open files and folders tab when you click the information button for a process and see which program they were installed with.

Adobe uses literally thousands of scripts, executables, open source code, dynamic libraries and those type things that many times they themselves didn't create and many more they did which is why the downloads are so massive. That said there are legitimate security vulnerability that come with the territory that have been exploited (yes of Macs) so it's possible that's also an issue.

That reminds me, how's your internet connection? Do you have fast internet working while you are using Premiere Pro???? I totally forgot that this is super important. Like I said Adobe wants to make sure you pay and all of the software will literally stop itself and give priority to checking in with Adobe's servers every few minutes or so to make sure your subscription is up to date. Try either making sure your wifi is fast and functional or possibly turning off your Wifi/Intenet all together so it knows not to attempt the check. Connecting to a poor/nonfunctional wifi. network can cause major problems from my experience.

been having this issue for a while m1 max 64gb memory all different versions of premiere rendering prores 422 hq hdr rec 2020 4k @60fps . playing back on blackmagic hyperdeck. when played back horrendous skips everywhere. I found this out after uploading 50gb video for a tradeshow in vegas and then had to lost my friday re rendering and uploading to the same result. reverted back to macbook 2016 same show file rendered pewrfectly although a lot slower. the workaround i have found in premiere is

disable options at the bottom enabling all prores and hard encoding so basically disabling the prores hardware in the fancty new mac with prores hardware. Renders are a lot slower but it does fix the playback issue on apple silicon pro and ultra

I've got an macbook pro 14 with 16gpu cores and 16gb ram.

Considering the reviews and youtube videos, this thing should fly when video editing anything between 1080p and 4k with effects applied.

That's also the selling point of these devices right?

And it does. It does with davinci resolve.

And if things dont work as intended on my 16gb ram macbook when rediting in premiere and they also dont with 64gb mac studio, the only thing to blame is premiere, right? Even with my macbook I rarely hit the ram threshold and the gpu when editing is stays 30/40%.

Hello leanderr01,

Thank you for reaching out to Apple Support Communities, and we'll be happy to help in any way we can. We understand you're having issues with performance with Premiere Pro on your MacBook Pro. To start, you can find the requirements and limitations listed on Adobe's page here: Premiere Pro for Apple silicon

You can check the processes and activity in your Activity Monitor to see if there is anything unusual as described here: View information about Mac processes in Activity Monitor

If nothing looks out of place, see if it occurs in another user account: Set up users, guests, and groups on Mac

We hope this helps.

Cheers!

I am having the same issue and found that making sure my Source window is set to FULL resolution playback, it helped some.

I just got a Mac Studio 32GB RAM and in Premiere, the raw timeline playback performance of an un-modified h246 file is very poor.

Just clicking around time timeline requires 3-5 seconds lag, and pressing play causes a lag of 3-5 seconds.

I loaded the same files into KDEnlive on my generic Linux hardware, and performance was instantaneous.

I bought this to replace a 2014 Mini I used for editing, and I'm not really seeing much improvement in the moment-to-moment experience of editing.

I might return this and get a Windows box for Adobe, as Adobe is all I use my Mac for.

I have the same problem, however it only started becoming an issue this side of new year. last year it all ran without any problems- no lagging or anything. problem seems to have started since updating Montery and Premiere Pro.

did you find a solution?

MacbookAir, M1 Chip, 16Gb RAM.

Hi, same problem here, brand new Mac Studio Max 32GB Premiere Pro 22.2.2 feels laggy and uresponsive, my 2012 rMBP works better...

I tried Final Cut 1 hour ago as I need this work done urgently, lacks of many features I like from Pr BUT awesome how easy is to use this program and feels smooth as buttering your toast in the morning.

I have the same problem while using premiere pro . just editing simple video and rendering take time and lagging huge

thank you for your reply!

i have 20 to 30 adobe apps randomly installed with premiere pro. I don’t use anything but premiere pro and sometimes Premier Rush. But there are so many different apps (more like add-ons to the apps) I didn’t install the full package such as illustration, photoshop or other vitals that I don’t use. What you recommend to do with it and do you also have many apps that also forcefully installed with the premiere pro ?

thank you.

Hello thanks for you respond. Probably it’s out of this main topic. But buying Final Cut versus keep using premiere pro, is there any advantage doing so? I am an amateur in video editing and mostly doing it for my super small you tube channel with 500 subscribers. But I love to learn new things and obviously having two apps especially with Premier pricing is not too advantageous.

so my real question is - taking into consideration M1 mac as a primary computer does it makes sense to use final cut only and just dump Adobe Pro.