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AndrewTheGreat
AndrewTheGreat
Known Participant
March 4, 2024

Is Media Encoder BROKEN??? Rendering taking 14 hours what Premiere Pro does in one hour

  • March 4, 2024
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I do not often use Me and I had no idea this software is so ridiculously slow. Now that I'm looking at the elapsed and estimated times this gives me the impression that Media Encoder does not ustilize CUDA or uses the e-cores of my Intel CPU alone.

 

This is my 48 minutes long project and after I started rendering the video, shows there's 10 (TEN!) hours left to finish. What is wrong with this software? The CUDA is activated, I tried making Me window active - the estimated time does not change at all. My CPU is 50% loaded, my graphics card is barely loaded though I'm rendering out into HEVC-h265.

In comparison Premiere Pro rendered the same project out in ONE HOUR yesterday, though it's window was not active - I was watching Youtube during the whole rendering process.

 

 

 

I think there's a bug in it... Adobe, please see to it.

Win10 updated, RTX 4080 with 551.61 and an NVIDIA fix driver, i7 13700 KF, 64 Gb, SSD.

Premiere Pro 24.2.1, Media Encoder 24.2.1

    6 replies

    L
    ListerSearch
    Participating Frequently
    January 9, 2025

    I'm experincing the same problem.  Did anyone find a fix?

    P
    PhotocamMedia
    Participant
    March 7, 2024

    Hmm, Actualy I have same problem. I don´t now what happend. Render in Premiere Pro is OK, but render PP project inot Adobe Encore is extremly slow.

      EckiAME
      Community Manager
      EckiAMECommunity Manager
      Community Manager
      March 6, 2024

      I agree, this does not sound right. But I need a repro case. I did not run into this yet. This issue may be somehow related to your system (OS, CPU, GPU, RAM, disks) or your project (formats, plug-ins, export preset).

      Did you try with "Import sequences natively" turned on and turned off? Did you try software only mode?

      AndrewTheGreat
      AndrewTheGreatAuthor
      Known Participant
      March 6, 2024

      Hi, @EckiAME 

      Unfortunatelly I cannot share a project comrising footage from my client. But you know, after I'd posted here, I also tried several other projects of mine in Me and in all of them Me showed the same poor result. Premiere Pro is just way faster in terms of encoding a project. One thing more - in this particular project with 10 hours of ectimated encoding time in Me and 1 hour and some 20 min in Premiere Pro, I used footage from Insta360 via Premiere pro plugin called GoProReframe (updated). Maybe this is the reasom? Whilst Me is generally slower that Premiere Pro even in simpler projects, I'd never seen a 10 hours estimated render time. In all other cases and tests the difference might be some 20-30 minutes but not 10 hours.

       

        EckiAME
        Community Manager
        EckiAMECommunity Manager
        Community Manager
        March 5, 2024

        Sorry for your issues. Would you be able and willing to share your project and media for us to look into your issue? I can private message you the instructions in this forum.

          Frank_B
          Frank_B
          Inspiring
          March 4, 2024

          Similarly with After Effects. It's way more efficient in rendering / exporting than AME. Personally I avoid Media Encoder as much as I can.

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