We are working on a series of ProRes export performance improvements in Premiere Pro and Media Encoder for macOS and Windows. The first of these improvements are now in beta and make ProRes exports up to three times as fast as in the current shipping products. The largest improvements will be seen: Using simpler sequences. When exporting 16-bit ProRes files* When using a high-end computer, with the biggest improvements on Apple silicon computers You will also see the same performance benefits when creating ProRes proxies, as the same engine powers both export and proxy creation. We’d love to get your feedback on the first part of our ProRes export performance improvements. Regards, Fergus * Currently, Premiere Pro’s ProRes export presets use 8-bit, which is silly. To get the correct quality export, customers need to manually modify the export setting. Coming soon to beta will be updated, 16-bit ProRes presets.

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New in beta: ProRes export performance improvements

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April 5, 2024
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We are working on a series of ProRes export performance improvements in Premiere Pro and Media Encoder for macOS and Windows.

The first of these improvements are now in beta and make ProRes exports up to three times as fast as in the current shipping products.

The largest improvements will be seen:

Using simpler sequences.
When exporting 16-bit ProRes files*
When using a high-end computer, with the biggest improvements on Apple silicon computers

You will also see the same performance benefits when creating ProRes proxies, as the same engine powers both export and proxy creation.

We’d love to get your feedback on the first part of our ProRes export performance improvements.

Regards,

Fergus

* Currently, Premiere Pro’s ProRes export presets use 8-bit, which is silly. To get the correct quality export, customers need to manually modify the export setting. Coming soon to beta will be updated, 16-bit ProRes presets.

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Fergus H

Author

Community Manager

Hi all,

As an update to my original post, the ProRes export improvements described (including the 16-bit presets) are now shipping in Premiere Pro and Media Encoder v24.5.

Now in beta are improvements to the export performance on Windows. Windows customers using the v24.6 beta (or later) should see a 2X improvement in ProRes export performance. We'd love your feedback on this!

Regards,

Fergus

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Alex367466572b5i

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@Fergus H

v24.3: Cuda 308 sec., Soft.only: 146 sec.

v24.5: Cuda 288 sec., Soft.only: 144 sec.

v24.5, MXF: Cuda 239 sec., Soft.only: 107 sec.

v24.6x46 (Beta): Cuda 161 sec., Soft.only: 149 sec.

v24.6x75 (Beta): Cuda 165 sec., Soft.only: 149 sec.

v24.6x75 (Beta), MXF: Cuda 102 sec., Soft.only: 88 sec.

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Alex367466572b5i

Known Participant

v24.3: Cuda 308 sec., Soft.only: 146 sec.

v24.5: Cuda 288 sec., Soft.only: 144 sec.

v24.6 (Beta): Cuda 161 sec., Soft.only: 149 sec.

MyerPj

Community Expert

Am I reading this right? So in all cases the software only is fastest?

This is a single h.264 long gop source clip -> prores 422

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Alex367466572b5i

Known Participant

Yes, it has been like that for a long time, and not only with ProRes. You can check for yourself, we conducted a collective test.

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Alex367466572b5i

Known Participant

Export to ProRes works in Pr 24.3 and does not work in Pr Beta 24.4/24.5. Attached screenshot. Is some library missing?

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Kyle Plumadore

Community Manager

@Alex367466572b5i

Thanks for pointing this out. We have seen this pop-up on a few Windows machines internally as well and are currently investigating.

Mac configs do not appear to be impacted and I would still encourage Mac users to give ProRes exports in the latest Premiere Pro Beta a try!

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Jarle Leirpoll

Legend

This is great – but why do we need the 8-bit option? For making bad video on purpose?

Please just make all ProRes render at 16-bit, and remove the 8-bit option.

Fergus H

Author

Community Manager

I agree. The quickest step is for us to update the preset, so that's what we'll do first.

Fergus

Joost van der Hoeven

Community Expert

Great gesture! So this is across the board? Not only on Macs with a Mx Max processor that has a ProRes feature?

Fergus H

Author

Community Manager

@Joost van der Hoeven Yes.

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Scott.C.

Inspiring

I'm actually more excited for the default presets to be 16 bit than the marginal performance gains. One of those things that takes a lot of twirly time in the maligned export UI. Thanks!

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