If you do have a dedicated GPU, which is definitely preferable, then you should select a GPU Acceleration option. If your system doesn’t have a dedicated GPU (graphics card) then you won’t be able to select the GPU Acceleration options and you will be forced to stick with the subpar Software Only setting. By default, software only is selected because not all systems have graphics cards.

Premiere can realtime preview video in 3 different ways: CPU (software only), OpenCL (AMD graphics cards), and CUDA (Nvidia graphics cards). The best way to get the best performance from Premiere is to use ProRes Proxy files… but the client needs this edit tomorrow and there’s no time to transcode everything! We need to start editing now and we need Premiere to be able to keep up with our blazing fast editing skillz!!! So let’s discuss how to squeeze the most performance out of our favorite, crash loving software: And if you’re like me, you’ll take your software a bit glitchy as long as it’s the most cutting edge and performance driven.

Adobe Premiere Pro CC certainly isn’t the most stable or glitch-free NLE on the market, but it is one of the fastest, most robust, and codec friendly software offerings.

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