PC is having trouble with Premiere

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SeaWoof

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I can play all modern games on ultra. People are editing on older, cheap entry level laptops. Yet I can't get premiere cc to run correctly.

My build is:

MSI 970 Mobo
AMD 6300 CPU
EVGA GTX 960 4gb
16gb 2133mhz ram
WD blue SATA drives

Looking into getting an SSD soon, but I feel like that wouldn't really help. When trying to edit, it's barely able to play back footage "smoothly", then as soon as I try any sort of color correction/grading, it gets to a depressing level of lag and delay. Even when playing back footage at 1/4 quality. I have the project settings set to cuda playback and not software only. I notice Adobe draws all of my CPU power when trying to edit. Very desperate to resolve this issue, as I have weddings coming up and a film I want to work on. I don't really have the budget to throw around on a completely new build, and I'm afraid to start throwing parts at it. Anyone's input would be highly appreciated!
 
It depends what resolution video you are processing.

Your system should be fine for SD, for HD your CPU is a bit slow, 4K without proxies is out of the question for your current system.
What is your ram allocation limit for Premiere?

What you can do is to run proxy mode, CC 2017 has it built-in. You edit with a lower resolution until final rendering.

https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/proxy-workflow.html
 
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Editing with proxy files is probably your best option; save your proxy files as DNxHD. What resolution, codec and file container does your camera record to? Get an SSD as your boot drive and store your video files on another drive (preferably a SSD or 7200 rmp HDD).
 
NLE's rely heavily on the CPU for decoding compressed video. Long GOP codecs like AVC are particularly draining on system resources.
Transcoding to an intraframe DI codec like Prores, DNXHD, or Cineform will improve your editing performance quite a bit. The downside is the files take up a lot more space,
 
What are you editing? Because I have that same cpu with a worse radeon gpu (no cuda processing) in an old computer and it handled 10-bit 4:2:2 hd footage footage just fine. +1 on the proxies I've using it to edit some 8k helium footage and its a life saver over investing in another $700 gpu. When you look at your resource monitor is the cpu the only thing bottlenecking it?
 
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