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Victor5CD3
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February 13, 2026

Performance in Full HD is not working well - request for improvements

  • February 13, 2026
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Here on my systems with RTX 5060TI and 5070 GPUs, yesterday I was editing a conference filmed in 4K, just over 130 minutes long. Exporting in Full HD took over 120 minutes, and this morning, exporting the same project in 4K with the camera's standard codec took much less time, just over 48 minutes. It seems that Premiere's optimization for Full HD is not working well; the performance is much worse than in 4K. Considering that 4K is a heavier file, it should be slower, and Full HD, which is lighter, should export faster.

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    Community Manager
    February 13, 2026

    Hi ​@Victor5CD3,

    I’m very sorry Premiere is not performing as well as you expected.  Also, thank you for providing your system specs.  Both Neil and Ann are correct about the scaling, but we are always looking to improve our performance. Can you tell me which version of Premiere you're using?  


     

    Victor5CD3
    Known Participant
    February 13, 2026

    Hi, I'm using Premiere version 25.6.4. It would be very helpful if you improved the program in this aspect and also in exporting to make it faster, as is already the case in other video editors. Also, at the production company where I work, all new workstations on AM5 with RTX 5070s have very poor export performance, whether normal or downscaling. Here in Brazil, there's a popular saying: "You made the child, now you have to raise it." I bought the RTX 5060 Ti to replace the RTX 3060, and I bitterly regret it. Since I bought it, I'll continue using it as is, as it cost me a considerable amount. To paraphrase the saying, "The child is yours, deal with the problem." I hope there will be some correction for the Nvidia RTX 5000 series.

    Build CPU Ryzen 5700X,64 GB ram,Nvidia geforce 5060 Ti 16 Gb,SSD nvme 1tb + ssd sata 2Tb HD Disc 2Tb Win11 24h2
    R Neil Haugen
    Legend
    February 13, 2026

    Is your sequence 4k? As if it is, Premiere does not have to recreate most of the pixels. If scaling occurs, it does. It isn’t the ‘weight’ of the codec but the work to get the image into that codec that matters. Or H.264 would be always a very fast output.

    Everyone's mileage always varies ...
    Victor5CD3
    Known Participant
    February 13, 2026

    Yes, Neil was filmed in 4K, but the final export had to be in full HD. It was filmed in MP4 using Canon's 4K codec at a bitrate of 150 Mbps, but the final export was in full HD at 25 Mbps. The sequence on the timeline was all in 4K because I let Premiere interpret the format; when importing the first take, it automatically creates the sequence in 4K in the format it was recorded in the camera. I don't know if the issue of a higher bitrate compared to a lower one limited performance; I found it quite strange, considering that 4K files with a higher bitrate are larger. The Canon XA 50 camera's 4K resolution is natively 150 Mbps; there is no option to select a lower bitrate.

    Build CPU Ryzen 5700X,64 GB ram,Nvidia geforce 5060 Ti 16 Gb,SSD nvme 1tb + ssd sata 2Tb HD Disc 2Tb Win11 24h2
    Ann Bens
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    February 13, 2026

    It takes a long time as you are downscaling from UHD to HD which uses a lot of cpu power.

    Its not so much the bitrate but rather the downscaling.