Premiere Pro laggy playback

[scorsesefan]

Hi all. I've been in the Sony ecosystem for years, so I haven't really worked with RAW files in a while. I've been having issues with laggy playback with R3D Komodo files shot in 6K in LQ and ELQ. I'm choosing the 4K Red sequence preset and I'm editing on a 2022 Mac Studio m1 Max with 32gb of RAM. I'm also running an older OS (12.5.1) and PP is 2023, so maybe that's an issue? Thanks

 

[Brian Timmons]

I'm an FCP 11 guy so I may not be much help with this.
I do have a similar Mac Studio and Macbook Pro as your setup and am in fact working on an edit with Komodo R3Ds as I type. It plays back fine even at 6K though piling on effects and filters can slow things down.

Do you also get laggy plackback in RED Cine-X? Could be a good way to determine if this is just a Premiere issue.
I will say that generally it is much better to use SSDs compared to spinning drives for editing so that might be something to consider.

Brian Timmons
BRITIM/MEDIA

 

[scorsesefan]

Thanks, Brian. I haven’t downloaded Cine-X yet but I will. I do use an SSD drive though…

 

[scorsesefan]

No jags in Cine-X. I guess PP is the bottleneck...

 

[Brian Timmons]

You might try a more recent version of Premiere as I believe there were supposed to be performance improvements with playback and rendering.

Brian Timmons
BRITIM/MEDIA

 

[scorsesefan]

Thanks, I'm going to update PP but I'm hearing bad things about v25 so I may go to 24

 

[Brian Timmons]

Thanks, I'm going to update PP but I'm hearing bad things about v25 so I may go to 24

Cool, hopefully it works better or considering the monthly small fortune Adobe gets from its user base it better perform well.

Brian Timmons
BRITIM/MEDIA

 

[scorsesefan]

Adobe is a bit of a joke at this point. But I've been working with it for 15 yrs so you know the teaching old dogs saying. If my partner didn't pay for the monthly subscription I would use Resolve. In fact, I'm going to start learning DR because it's just better...