As I sit here waiting for a AME render from AfterEffects watching Adobe use 20% of two XEON processors and pin 100% of just one CPU for brief 30 second waves here and there while my expensive GPU sits at 0% I have to wonder how it is that smaller companies can take full advantage of the resources of my server.
Not really sure why we pay all this money for being humiliated in having to comment and vote on Adobe fixing or improving their software as a priority rather then adding or changing it to be more like other programs. Of course I'll have some employee or OG Beta Tester with Free Adobe comment some condescending remark about how the render engine is fine it just uses what it needs or perhaps I need a new certified 4090 Quadttro card with two more XEON processors and 128gbs of RAM. I'm Autistic not stupid the constant it's everyone else's problem windows etc. and not fixing easy stuff that has been a problem in posts for over 20 years is unacceptable. And when Adobe does add a feature like a "Shut computer Down after rendering" they never think about how the feature should work or what additional settings, or the best way to implement it. So enjoy NOT having a the forethought of a 30 second count down pop-up warning dialogue. Your not worth the effort. If you want that or a fix to some issue or an addition that should have been taken card of 20+ years ago, Adobe is ready to stand idly by while you fork out $$$ for 3rd party software to increase your render speed!!!

My Mac Pro 2019 28-cores is still very slow when using Adobe Premiere. I would love to find a way to have more performances using GPU. Davinci Resolve took the bridge easily and this software is very fast with the cores.

Please offload more plugin playback in the interface to multi-cores / gpus

Sergiu Mihalache wrote, "My early subscription expires soon, and I'm not renewing it. I'm sure I'm not the only one." and I understand this sentiment.

I'm finishing up my current documentary on Adobe Premiere Pro, but finishing the Color Grade in DaVinci Resolve and the Sound Mix in Fairlight. I might just stay in DaVinci Resolve for the entire next project, better GPU utilization, no monthly license fee, and seamless workflow from start to finish for video projects. Perhaps the spectre of Resolve might encourage Adobe to see the light and support multiple GPU units on both Mac and PC, otherwise, I am going to stay away.

The current state of Premiere Pro reminds of the dawning age of Sony Vegas (v11-v13) when the once speedy editor couldn't keep up with the newer/more professional codecs coming in (GoPro Protune, P2 Intra, DNxHD) but the company kept pushing less-than-needed stereoscopy, HitFlim effects and other marketing-friendly features.
Sadly, the performance and stability were going downhill & it was time to abandon ship.

Seeing that my 2017 laptop (GTX1070, quad i7 7th gen, 64GB RAM) can perfectly service 4K XAVC files in DV Resolve, I start to wonder how is it possible for an Australian company of half-bilion worth to develop a better performing product than Adobe which is worth 240 billion USD?

You've definetely created the value for shareholders, now please create value for the users.

I have a 2020 6 core MacBook Pro with 16GB of ram. I just made a single cut in my video, and the render time has been 8 minutes.. The optimization just isn't here and it's been disappointing. I had a PC with specs not as good as this laptop yet it performs super slow. It has been 2 years since this post and we still have yet to get a solution

I can't use the hardware encoding for h.264 export--the quality is terrible. I'm fairly certain when I tested it out when it was first added, I found the software encoder to operate faster on my machine (12-core xeon gold 2.3 w/ 1080 Ti).

I use a Mac Pro 2019 and this is a classic text-book case of how Goliath can't optimize it's software at this point. Until they try to actually re-write their program, this will not speed up with whatever computers we all have.

I use a Mac Pro 2019 and Adobe is a classic text-book case of how Goliath can't optimize it's software at this point. Until they try to actually re-write their program, this will not speed up with whatever computers we all have. Waiting for the fall from grace at this point.

I use a Mac Pro 2019 and Adobe is a classic text-book case of how Goliath can't optimize it's software at this point. Until they try to actually re-write their program, this will not speed up with whatever computers we all have. Waiting for the fall from grace at this point.

Endoding Performance got better with dedicated GPU Support. Thanks for that!

Now we need Decoding for better Timeline Playback for H.264/HEVC with dedicated GPUs. It's a shame that I need a middleclass Intel CPU for better Playback rather than a Highend AMD CPU.

Why doesn't Adobe optimize their software to make better use of GPUs on MacOS systems? Unless Adobe wants to encourage media makers to defect to Final Cut Pro X, Davinci Resolve, and their ilk for video post production, it's high time that Adobe optimizes performance for MacOS systems with GPUs, especially the new Mac Pro. Right now Final Cut Pro X and Davinci Resolve run performance circles around the Adobe products on these systems. The side-by-side comparisons I've seen published and those I've done myself convince me that Adobe is not putting enough of the subscription revenue towards performance enhancements. Stop with the endless feature creep and give us some raw performance, please!

2020, July 13th, still no solution. C300 RAW can be played back with Resolve or Canon RAW Development at full resolution without any issues, on Premiere Pro it won't get fluid unless dropping the resolution to 1/4th. The GPU is not only used with 4% by PP when playing back CRM-files, while the CPU is maxxed out.

Again, you conveniently say nothing about Macs! I nearly dropped $5000 on a new editing system before realizing that Adobe and Apple are behaving like children and refusing to address their customers concerns.

Any news on this? The only reason I'm using Adobe CC is because our company has an enterprise license. I would switch to FCP or DaVinci in a heartbeat.

Lots of comments on this. Yet no update since 2018?!

IMac Pro shuts down when trying to transcode 4k sony fs7 xavc-i. Gpu goes to 95 celcius and the system shuts down.
Runs fine om 2013 Mac Pro. Gpu's never go above 80 degrees.

Please make the optimization better for AMD Radeon cards so that Mac users can take advantage of this. It's disappointing that Nvidia got all the optimization. Play back is still slow when editing multiple streams of 6k footage even with the current update.

agreeing with philip owens below. same issues with any version of 2020 premiere on my imac pro. i’ve had an overall horrible user experience cutting anything simple in the timeline. hit pause during playback and the playhead might decide to stop anywhere between 40-80 frames later. always having to toggle back to the point where i wanted to make a cut. even footage that worked flawlessly in 2019 (sony fs7 xavc i) will start to drop frames and lag inside 2020 to where proxies need to be created. reverting back to the latest version of 2019 has been the workaround. i might consider 2020 once we’ve hit 2021.

Caveat: this mentions mp4 clip playback. Yes, I know it's not an editing format, but this project requires me to use hundreds of hours of mp4 clips that are between one and four hours in duration. There simply has never been the time or disk space to transcode these to ProRes - and there never will be. But, performance was satisfactory even earlier this year.

The two 2020 releases (14.1.0 and 14.2.0) have brought my 2015 MacBook Pro (10.14.6) to its knees, and I am on the edge of having to purchase a new system to cope as my project has become almost unusable. With no other apps running, I can barely get the sequences to play, let alone any of the interface elements update (scrollbar holds position for many seconds at a time before jumping to new location to remain frozen at)

Performance even six months ago was infinitely better with this same project on this same machine. Everything was fluid and pretty fast. The claims of performance improvements seem to be 180 degrees away from my own experience.