Slow performance while rendering/video editing on my MacBook Pro M2 Max

By far the easiest way to cause poor performance, instability, overheating and crashing is to install ANY third-party speeder-uppers, Cleaners, Optimizers, or Virus scanners. or a VPN that you installed yourself.

The idea that a third party, with no special knowledge of the inner workings of MacOS, can somehow find a simple way to protect your computer — that is not already being done by MacOS itself — suggests that the MacOS developers are somehow "holding out on you". That is absurd.

You should remove any and all (other than Apple built-in) virus scanners, speeder uppers, optimizers, cleaners, App deleters or VPN packages you installed yourself, or anything of that ilk.

Third-party file Sync-ers such as DropBox, BackBlaze, OneDrive, or GoogleDrive can ruin performance, but are not inherently dangerous.

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To determine whether added software is the problem, run in Safe Mode, where no third-party items are loaded.

"Works in Safe Mode, Fails in regular mode" implies, "it's something you added."

I have the same issue. MacBook Pro M2, 64 GB. Everything is so much quicker than my PC other than warp stabilizer. It seems like this process is 10x longer than my PC was. For a 10 second clip it can be a half hour.

There are MANY ways to proceed, not yet mentioned here. But simply saying "me too" leaves you stuck in the same boat as the original Author, who has not responded, or indicated whether their problem still exists or not.

I recommend you start a new discussion.

One obvious potential issue not mentioned is running short of real RAM. Use Activity Monitor while you are doing this render, and be certain that memory pressure is not going yellow or red, and that "Swap Used' remains ZERO.

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Any updates here?

The only real performance issue cited here recently was a case of a user whose Mac did not fully wake after sleeping, The report was that the computer was did not finish waking up and its processors did not operate at full speed. the issue was confirmed as 'real' by running geek bench tests, which performed about 2/3 the expected speed.

The experiment to try to see if that's a problem for you is to Restart your Mac, and before it has any possibility of sleeping, run your demanding job again.

-- if good and fast, some solutions were included in the recent 13.5 update.

-- if still slow, suspect your ad-ons are not behaving well under Rosetta emulation, and see if any have been updated.

kurt7416--

Please don't camp on the end of an already very complex issue.

You are extremely unlikely to have the EXACTLY same issues as the original Author. If you post here, you can make no more progress that the original Author. To get your issues the attention they deserve, please start a NEW discussion, with a title that might attract the Readers you think can help.

Be sure to include the specs of your Mac, what version macOS, and what software is giving you the worst problems.

If you have already run in Safe mode, that is a great start and you should mention that as well.