Media Encoder rendering way slower than Premiere (almost no GPU usage)

@Tripecac2 I didn't resolve it (EckiAME is looking into it for me) but I figured out why it was happening for me.

The issue is I was using audio effects from BorisFX (specifically the "crumblepop audio restoration effects": https://borisfx.com/products/crumplepop/

Those effects rendered fine in Premiere, but for some reason made AME to stop using GPU. As soon as I remove those effects, AME works as expected again, just like Premiere.

So my tip would be to see what effects you're using, delete them one-by-one and do a test render. Chances are it's one or two effects that don't play well with AME.

Were you able to get this resolved?

Media Encoder has been extremely slow to export since mid/late 2024, compared to Premiere Pro.  Media Encoder used to be able to export a 2 hour 4K 60fps video in a few hours (which Premiere Pro can still do), but something "broke" with Media Encoder in 2024, making the same video take *hundreds* of hours to render!

Was EckiAME able to help you get Media Encoder running faster?

Sending you a private message…

@EckiAME Absolutely, feel free to private message me. I'll send anything you need

Would you be able to supply a repro project together with media? I can send you the instructions via private message in this forum.

@EckiAME I've already mentioned my hardware specs in my post (RTX 4080 Super, i9 14900k, 128gb RAM, Samsung T7). I'm using the latest Nvidia Drivers (version 566.36)

It would be useful to get more information about what your hardware specs are (CPU, GPU, driver versions),  the source media is and to actually get a project and media that can be used to replicate the issue.

These instructions might be useful to get what we need to look into the issue: https://community.adobe.com/t5/adobe-media-encoder-bugs/how-do-i-write-a-bug-report/idi-p/1309480.