I did use proxies. I made them through Media Encoder and enabled them in premiere. This whole thing is so weird. Everything lags. It is only when I have all the raw footage on the os drive everything works. Its like it is super slow coming from the HDD. My old computer (HP Omen 12gb ram, 4 core processor, One ssd, one HDD, GeForce GTX 1060 3GB) was way faster and had no lag at all. Ugh this is fustrating.