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Premiere Pro 2022 M1 MacBook Pro slow/lagging playback

Hey,

I have a Macbook Pro 8/256 gb with a M1 chip.

I use Premiere Pro for video editing (7 gb are available for PP performance).

I do simple video editing with full HD 60 FPS footage (ca. 1h). Not many special efffects etc.

When I do the cutting the program and the video + sound starts lagging. I have to wait a few seconds until I can start the playback of the video to cut. But when I cut the lagging start again. This should not be the case, since its the latest version of PP and I think it supports the M1 chip.

Anyone who had similar problems or tips?

Thanks

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 12.1

Posted on Jan 26, 2022 10:20 AM

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guguii

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Posted on Apr 5, 2022 12:49 AM

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

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May 6, 2022 10:38 AM in response to Nigelwill2003

I'm on Monterey 12.3.1 on an iMac M1 and a Premiere Rush edit of a 4 minute video took 1 hour and 45 minutes! I use FCP as well but each project gobbles up so much disk space to complete the project I tried Premiere and now Premiere Rush. These are not complicated timelines and renders either. Didn't expect this with an M1 chip.

May 25, 2022 4:20 PM in response to ererfwec

Same here. I have the latest maxed out macbook pro max m1 with an owc ssd drive (1400 mb/s) and it performs worse than a 8 year old intel make running of a usb 2 50 mb/s drive. It's infuriating. It should be 30 times faster.

kstebbs

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Jun 16, 2022 2:16 PM in response to stevefromdatchet

I just wanted to let you know that this solved it for me! Unchecking those hardware acceleration boxes made clicking around the timeline SO much more immediate and responsive. Thank you so much.

16" MacBook Pro, M1 Max, 64gb, Monterey, Premiere 22.0

Mar 13, 2022 8:13 PM in response to diljeet11

Plus one. its nearly impossible to edit anything. you have to render piece by piece ITS CRAZY

ererfwec

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Mar 15, 2022 12:02 PM in response to leanderr01

Same here, terrible lags making editing extremely unwieldy. Not sure what's the point to get an M1 Max if video editing with Premiere is at this point slower than it was with my 2013 MacBook.

Mar 17, 2022 1:02 AM in response to leanderr01

I'm in the same situation, so sad... can't edit nothing, so much laggy

attyB

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Apr 26, 2022 3:24 AM in response to Nigelwill2003

Anyone have any solution to this ? I'm on Monterey 12.3.1 with 64gb Mac Studio and Premier Pro audio is laggy on playback, (it works find on my older iMac). Final Cut Pro is not an option atm.

TBaker90

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Jul 17, 2022 8:41 AM in response to GabrielBaronFilms

Tried everything for days & strangely enough this worked for me. Thanks!

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