Basic Question for Stability

[Matt Hannon]

Any ideas?

Just in case someone else sees this, upgrading to catalina and the latest version of premiere seems to have sped up the opening time of the file and linking all the clips etc – also more stable there.

Cheers

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[Santanu Bhattacharjee]

My experience – I stick to hardware acceleration, even if some effects crash or don’t render once a while. The agony of scrubbing through the basic things again n again during an edit is more painful in software mode.

Only as a last resort, if my PC keeps crashing while my deadlines come close, I switch to software mode.

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[Matt Hannon]

Thanks Santanu,

Yeah I have just left as is for the moment and things are running well. Surprisingly the update to new OS and software seems to have helped a bit.

Hoping things dont slow down to much when the sequences start getting complicated later in the production…

cheers

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[Merlin Vandenbossche]

I understand when people “advice” others to disable the Mercury GPU acceleration as it sometimes helps alleviate problems that start at the GPU level, but it is generally bad practice to do so. In the majority of scenarios your GPU wont cause issues. I only do so when something weird pops up: when the program monitor shows weird green flashing, when I get errors trying to export or render a weird combination of effects. This will not happen often, especially on MacOS, where you do not control GPU drivers yourself. For people on windows workstations correctly updating GPU drivers usually makes those problems disappear as well.

So always keep the GPU acceleration going as a standard operation. I see no reasons not to. It will help a lot with playback, especially once you start adding any type of gpu acclerated effects. And it will boost export speeds. If issues with exports or playback occur, think of disabling it as a possible workaround. But it will not cause more crashes as someone wanted you to believe.