Adobe Premiere Pro 2023/2022 Slow Playback Lag Performance Fix

Why is Premiere' PLAYBACK PERFORMANCE slow as fudge all of the sudden? Because it implemented a cool new feature that can actually be horrible on the wrong system (most systems?!?). Maybe they forgot to test with non-workstation GPUs or on low quality motherboards? If I knew for a fact that a non-cheap motherboard upgrade will make this work as intended - I think definitely yes. Let me know if you have any background info on this please!
Premiere Pro 2020 solution: • Fix Slow/Laggy/Choppy ...

[@leokimvideo]

I have noticed it's getting worse with each upgrade. I just wish they would stop tinkering with the machine

[@Razorfiend]

Massive thank you for this solution! I''ve been through about 20 tutorial videos and as many websites which all recommend variations of the same standard fixes of which none worked. Turning off hardware decoding finally fixed my problem for good, no more dropped frames at 1/4 resolution, now I'm able to do full resolution playback with 0 dropped frames. I'm running an RTX 2070 so I have no idea why hardware decoding is so bad.

[@SouthpawAutoworks]

I've been going crazy with this lag. If I rendered a segment of the project, it would play better. But, rendering (even the most basic talking head footage, no color grading) was taking way longer than normal. This worked for me. Thank you, so much!

[@SouthpawAutoworks]

BTW I subscribed.

[@stickergamer]

I have an I7 7700K and a GTX 1080 and I was also getting playback lag. Disabling the GPU decoding increased my CPU usage (as expected) but it solved the playback lag. It's way more enjoyable to edit now. Thank you for the advice!

[@MellowFelloh]

Helped a ton though not completely back to how it was. Literally stumped why it just all of a sudden went from 100% okay to the slowest thing on Earth.

[@Shandab3ar]

Wow, this did it! I was ready to just call it on ever making videos again. Thank you so much!

[@mythoughtsmyfaultspodcast]

AMAZING FIX MY FRUSTRATIONS WERE THROUGH THE ROUGH

[@ADRIAN65078]

Maaan the beginning part where you were stuttering was soooooo freakin funny!!!! I actually spit out my coffee!!! Lol 😂 😂😂😂😂. Awesome video brother!!!

[@missioncreekstyle3814]

Yes, I can verify that disabling Hardware encoding can prevent a pretty bad bottleneck when handling H.264 footage. Good job. I'll link it to discussion forums discussions at Adobe.

[@bazilio8258]

Encoding or Decoding?

[@opensourcebug8028]

Decoding

[@Abuelord]

OMFGGG, you are a god send, I saw those settings earlier and I said to myself, nope it's probably not that. I've been trying to fix this for months and i've been using my crappy work computer to render videos because of that (takes SO MUCH longer). I have a 5900x CPU and a 390x for GPU so I was losing my mind as to why this wasn't working correctly on this setup. Thank you so much!

[@taurinh]

I have a Ryzen 9 3900x, 64gb 3600 RAM, and a Asus TUF 3080. The newest update was killing me! I tried this and it's flawless so far. Only a 7% CPU Increase. Will update if anything changes but THANK YOU!

[@shotbybayo]

Anything change?

[@TylerF]

Works for me after horrible performance following the 2022 update. Thank you!!

[@collinrobinson1864]

Like everybody else here, I can not thank you enough for this video, very much appreciated.

[@georgecatterton3514]

Thank you! Clear, fast and informative. Great video!

[@LVLNULLER]

it worked! Thank you i had delays up to 10 seconds and the playback had massive framedrops. My Premiere was basicly useless. Now it is way better. i use an Intel Core i7-9750H CPU @ 2.60GHz 2.59 GHz and a nvidia Gforcegtx 1650 max q

[@philipquaglino]

Why in the HELL is this enabled by default??? This changed everything for me! THANK YOU!!!!!!!! Ryzen 5900X 64GB DDR4 All Solid State NVMe 3080Ti and playback of h264 was non-existant on Premiere 2023 with no effects. I did this and BAM! I can edit. Its like Adobe hard coded a way to kill performance for LOLs.

[@cryptosandwich4042]

I searched online forever for a solution to this issue and Premiere was driving me bonkers until I found your video, thank you so much! 🙏

[@btej]

This worked for me, thank you. I am using the new macbook pro M1 Max 64 GB Memory. I went to edit my first video, and knew something wasn't right. The space bar delay was so long. I disabled the "enable hardware accelerated decoding" then restarted premiere and now it is lightning fast. Thanks very much.

[@potatocubes69]

I have 2 devices, one a laptop which is Zephyrus M16 2022 with an i9 12900h and an rtx 3070, before I was using premiere 2020 and now running premiere pro 2023 two, a PC I build around 4 years ago which has an i7 9700f and an rtx 2080, still running premiere pro 2020 Both has Nvidia studio drivers installed. My PC has a much faster playback and it's way smoother compared to my laptop after upgrading to 2023. Thanks a lot!

[@Crazymrpipz]

ma man... im a full time content creator and this was such a BIG ISSUE... thanks!!! you are a LEGEND!!! i use a RTX 2080 TI + i9

[@niky2229]

ty for the help i have a rtx 2070 super and i just downloaded premiere pro and i have been having playback issues ive gone thru a ton of videos and this one has helped the most much appreciated.

[@ZenBlenderTTV]

Thank you!!! It works! Everything is working smoothly like Pr 2019/2020. Im using a MSI GT75vr Titan with nvidia 1070gtx and i7 7820HK

[@BadicalRadness]

Hero of time. I appreciate you sir!

[@_whoateallthepies]

Wow this fixed all my issues. My system Treadripper 3960x 64gb Ram 2080ti switching it over to CPU massive performance increase thanks

[@adaywithdoa369]

For some reason I cant see these options

[@halvey492]

I don't see it either. did you solve the problem? if yes please tell me too

[@lorenzosucgang5191]

Smooth to the core! Just like what Connor said. Thank you brother!

[@chrmoenster]

I have a f***ing RTX 4090 and AMD 3900xt 12-core, still really bad performance, but this did help! 😅

[@walk2liv]

This worked for me. I almost went full on Falling Down on this thing.

[@idkfml6175]

for me, I just go to Sequance > Sequence Setting > File Format > . quick time. Then, Codec. (select what work for u, for me Apple ProRes 422). Finally, Sequance again> render entire work area ( selected preview that lagginng). DONE!

[@anuraj833]

Thank you so much I have been looking for this fix for a long time

[@ThatFlyinRyan]

Holly cow, my problems been FIX ON 2022

[@birdingwithrivercorcoran]

OMG!!! Thank you SO much! This fixed all my lag.

[@happyfoxproductions]

THANK YOU

[@manansharma4322]

Thank you so so so much much man just been running on a dead line and this happened

[@wakeup2.369]

Hi. from Moscow. 1080 ti graphics card. Ram 32 GB, processor Risen 7 2700x. After the 2023.2 version of the program, everything began to slow down and freeze. Playback on the timeline is constantly delayed after pressing the play button for 20 seconds! Neither proxy nor transcoding helps!. New drivers. I tried the studio version and game drivers - it doesn't help. Removed BORIS FX plugins. It began to work better, but still delays. I transferred the project to m2 sd, the same thing also did not pass delays. In general, I think to completely switch to Da Vinci, because the Premier is an unreliable program and constant problems with it. in general, I disabled the GPU wherever possible. The preview on the processor has become much faster. There was a delay of up to 20 seconds on the video card! Per processor 1 second! This is a product adobe has been making for many years and nothing has changed in it. I'm not even talking about after effects - it's generally the king of the gods!

[@inventanew]

you just saved me hours, thank you!!!!

[@adir5337737]

thank you very much i used only NVidia and everythink works!!

[@Juan-Blasquez]

I'm so tired of these adobe updates, it's always the same, maybe time to try final cut for me

[@OutbackPolaks]

Thanks helped a bit but still having issues

[@DaphneGsell]

Same

[@melvinschrute9617]

I've got a 3070ti and an i7 13700k, I was genuinely wondering if it was my machine even though it's still practically brand new. Glad that's not the case, but this is still ridiculously stupid.

[@ross-carlson]

Made zero difference for me - running only a 8086k without a GPU (so integrated) and tried with this on and off and it's the same - my main issue is moving around the timeline is AWFUL - and it didn't use to be.

[@opensourcebug8028]

That's a good CPU. Did you figure out a way to solve it? I'm sorry to hear this didn't help. I can only think of restarting windows after changing the setting but else.. hope you found a way.

[@HusHHarding]

Thanks alot! helped me out with client work you da man

[@buystander]

WOW!!! THANKS!!! this worked for me...

[@JaredsAdventures543]

thank you, seems to have fixed it!

[@DaphneGsell]

This worked for me thank you!

[@DaphneGsell]

Just kidding it didn’t work

[@vrashabh4545]

😅😊

[@jandeungria7342]

Thanks

[@jeffb9983]

Looks like you're playing back a game recording. Generally those recordings are variable frame rate which Premiere is horrible with. Do you get this same delay when using non-VFR footage as well?

[@opensourcebug8028]

I'm currently running an ffmpeg check on the source file to figure out whether it's VFR or not. I expect it isn't. It's 60fps though. I wonder what makes you say game recordings are generally VFR though.

[@opensourcebug8028]

The source file came out clean: video:316135kB audio:0kB subtitle:0kB other streams:0kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead: unknown [Parsed_vfrdet_0 @ 00000276752fef00] VFR:0.000000 (0/603959) It's 2h40m 1080p 60fps encoded at VBR with 3 audio tracks (1 of them I didn't use) in OBS at VBR. Either of these might play into this I'm guessing. Either of these factors or some other detail of encoding might be the cause of the lags I suppose. Last time I played around with encoding settings however (Premiere 2020, after upgrading from 2019), I noticed that turning off iGPU makes editing possible as opposed to a horrible pain, so I kind of stopped researching after that. I didn't make it very clear but the big problem I was trying to solve was: I was able to work with the files in 14.0 (which utilized my CPU immensely) and switching to 15.0 made it extremely laggy by comparison. Turns out one of the other files I used to have in that timeline (but had deleted from it, hoping it'd help performance) ended up positive: [Parsed_vfrdet_0 @ 000001a8e8123a40] VFR:0.000002 (1/414726) min: 512 max: 512) I guess one frame was dropped during recording. I created a new project (new project, not just sequence) with only the clean 2h40m file and did ~20 cuts without transitions. Jumping around the timeline and starting playback still is way to slow with NVIDIA (1-3s) compared to CPU decoding (feels instant, definitely less than 0.5s). Although I can't reproduce the lag during zooming any more (neither in this nor in the old project with which I made the video here).

[@jeffb9983]

@@opensourcebug8028 Best way to see if a video is VFR is using MediaInfo: mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo/Download Remember, VFR (Variable FRAME rate) is problematic, NOT VBR (Variable BIT rate). Also check your OBS settings, you should be able to turn on/off VFR in there.

[@Boyz92izer]

Man you saved my nervs thanks a lot!

[@Garcatch]

this helped, thank you!

[@filmingandshowcasing5369]

Awesome..Thanks alot it worked

[@bogidar68]

Thanks, I migh still switch back to 2019 though

[@p3raltax998]

dude do you still getting that delayed playback?, because i've seen that premire gets really delayed with big videos like over 40 minutes 1080p 60fps h264/h265 10,000 constant bitrate and a lot of videos in the project

[@zaidifaridproduction5420]

hi .. Im Using Ryzen 9 3590X and RTX 3090.. My PC is Screaming after updated to new version 2022.. It's Helps alot.. thank you thank you thank you ... trying to solve this matter from April 2022, and It Solve .. Thank once more

[@mh369]

wow it made all the difference. finally i can use PP again

[@gotzerolife]

Thanks dude!!

[@E.B.K]

Thank you lord :)

[@juanos_cz]

THANKS!!!!!!

[@le0boss]

thank you!! works for me now ! like!

[@brianoreo428]

omg thank you so much

[@HiMrholygod]

DAMN YOU ARE GODDDDDDDDDDD

[@djakphotostudio6590]

thank you so mouch

[@shotbybayo]

Funny thing is brother I have a maxed out pc 4090 with i9 64gbs ram and STILL have this issue adobe needs to get they shit together

[@hellottwch]

thanks mate ;P

[@MeniMor]

thank you helped 100%

[@JePeVePe]

I use 980Ti and CPU 5950X (wanted faster GPU, but.... prices are ridiculous rightnow) I have other issues with 2021 version... some projects now will not open 'a timeline'.. just get stuck... but moving throught the menu's, it's then there, but extremely slow. Is weird, since when I started with those projects it worked fine.. yeah that spacebar stuff, was slow also, but I always thought it was just the use of 10 videolines of 4K (With proxies). I'm not sure why some projects now just 'stall' when opening... It could be the installation of that Insta360 plugin (is a GoPro Reframe plugin in a sense, opening a insv file in Premiere, is extreeeemely slow, but looks now, that with older projects I worked on earlier, without a 360 clip, it's slow also, so... does anybody have similar problems with that Insta plugin?

[@MARUKU]

Bro I love you !

[@zua2567]

h264/hevc does not pop up when i go there pls help

[@djunn]

Adobe soft quality get worse every years. Im cant whait moment, when user start mass migration from this shit.

[@ZaneoxYoutube]

omg bro i love you so much.

[@rightswap15]

Using PremierPro2020, i5 7th gen + 940 mx , it lags as hell no matter what settings u try, pls can somebody help me , pls

[@jozogaming2057]

100th like! But thank you so much this fixed my problem.

[@user-sj8bt1js9g]

Hey, I got a TR 2790wx, 64 gb Ram, 2080Ti. Premiere pro struggles to playback even hd footage sometimes, even on the previous versions of premiere, my system works great on 3D programs, but does a terrible job on premiere. I have no clue why I'm having this issue, maybe its not optimized right? Can anyone help me to fix this?

[@djunn]

Write to adobe and ask your money back. They do nothing until users will approve thats terrible work.

[@rm21300]

I must be the only one that doesn't have that option under media...

[@halvey492]

@leron massey I don't see it either. did you solve the problem? if yes please tell me too

[@xfrai3206]

Bro what this actually worked

[@sanyabtw]

genius

[@lakesideaudio]

This is fantastic, it’s fixed my playback problems, thanks ever so much 🎥🎥🎥📷📸

[@adaywithdoa369]

Dont worry I was using 2020 and still lagging

[@raviparvatala3869]

i have rtx3080

[@SammieSvana]

I'm using Macbook Pro, graphics Intel Iris pro, and I CAN'T EVEN EDIT ANY CAPTION CAUSE THE CURSOR DON'T EVEN WANT TO MOVE ON THIS UPDATE VERSION WHAT THE HECK. 🤯🤬🔥🔥🔥🤌🏼🔪

[@vrashabh4545]

😅 fist few projects adobe perform superb.. then goes legging.. it doent metter how super fast your computer. oh adobe, why did you do this😢😢😢