Premiere Pro 2019 Lagging, even with proxies!

[David Roth weiss]

How much free space do you have on each and every hard drive?

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[Greg Janza]

If under a deadline, revert Premiere to 2018 and see if that eliminates the problem.

Windows 10 Pro | i7-5820k CPU | 64 gigs RAM | NvidiaGeForceGTX970 | Blackmagic Decklink 4k Mini Monitor |
Adobe CC 2018 12.1.2 | Renders/cache: Samsung SSD 950 Pro x2 in Raid 0 | Media: Samsung SSD 960 PRO PCIe NVMe M.2 2280 x 2 | Media: OWC Thunderbay 4 x 2 Raid 0 mirrored with Resilio

[Mike Kelland]

I gave 2019 a test drive by opening a copy of a 2018 project. I couldn’t get a 4K ProResHQ clip to play without terrible lag. Proxies lagged too. Exporting a 13 minute timeline to ProResHQ said it was going to take an hour and a half…! (Normally around the 7 minute mark in 2018).

Revert now to 2018 and save yourself the time – the lag is in the release, it’s not just you ☺
It might work with a project starting from scratch in 2019… but that’s not going to help you.
In the real world we need to open old projects in new versions of Premiere… the alternative is
to have many versions of the programme on your system and remember which one applies
to each old project – not ideal at all. Surely Adobe can find a way to reliably update old projects
to new Pr versions?

Anyway this technique will revert your existing 2019 project to 2018 or earlier:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJO4PlHASIs

Cheers,

Mike

MacPro 2013, MacOSX 10.12, D700, 32GB RAM, Promise Pegasus2 raid

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[Oliver Peters]

I agree – finish the project in your previous version.

However, regarding the lag, there’s nothing about 2019 that should affect that. Other issues, yes/maybe. We are running 7 stations on shared storage with a mix of media, cameras, sizes, frame rates. I updated all to 2019 over the weekend and by and large all upgraded projects have performed with minimal issues. Complex AE projects have pretty much been our only hassle right now. These are all Macs running 10.13.6.

No offense, but I would be highly suspect that there’s something incompatible in your set-up with 2019.
“The CPU is a Intel i7 8700K, the PC is a custom build Coffee Lake hackintosh.”

– Oliver

Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com

[Kevin Monahan]

Have you updated to CUDA 9.2?

[Greg Janza]

I agree with oliver. i just upgraded my system to 2019 and I’ve noticed no performance issues at all. In fact, it seems to be running better overall. I’ve tested with 4k Sony FS5 mxf files.

Windows 10 Pro | i7-5820k CPU | 64 gigs RAM | NvidiaGeForceGTX970 | Blackmagic Decklink 4k Mini Monitor |
Adobe CC 2018 12.1.2 | Renders/cache: Samsung SSD 950 Pro x2 in Raid 0 | Media: Samsung SSD 960 PRO PCIe NVMe M.2 2280 x 2 | Media: OWC Thunderbay 4 x 2 Raid 0 mirrored with Resilio

[Tad Newberry]

I’m having similar problems. Done all the things to “speed up my Mac”, but the only big change lately is going to 2019 (v 13). I’ve googled how to make a 2019 project open in 2018 or 2017 and will try that. I’ve always wanted to travel in time, so this will be fun.

thanks for helping out a bonehead!
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FCS3 / Adobe CC
3.33 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon Mac Pro
24GB RAM
ATI Radeon HD 5870
…and a few TeraBytes o’ storage
(then it’s on to PetaBytes, ExaBytes and MosquitoBytes!)

[Tad Newberry]

The downgrade worked. I had no idea this was possible. If any of you want to do it, here’s the video for Mac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8ecJNJsnn8&feature=youtu.be

and for them other machines:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJO4PlHASIs

I opened it up in 2018 with no problems. Yet. Restarting and we’ll see if the lag issue is gone.

thanks for helping out a bonehead!
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FCS3 / Adobe CC
3.33 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon Mac Pro
24GB RAM
ATI Radeon HD 5870
…and a few TeraBytes o’ storage
(then it’s on to PetaBytes, ExaBytes and MosquitoBytes!)

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[Tad Newberry]

Back with a 2019 project working dandily in 2018. The lagging seems to have stopped.

thanks for helping out a bonehead!
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FCS3 / Adobe CC
3.33 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon Mac Pro
24GB RAM
ATI Radeon HD 5870
…and a few TeraBytes o’ storage
(then it’s on to PetaBytes, ExaBytes and MosquitoBytes!)