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June 25, 2018
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Adobe Premiere Pro not utilising CPU or GPU

  • June 25, 2018
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Hi There,

I have a reasonably recent Ryzen computer which i built for video editing. My issue is that in Adobe Permiere Pro will only utilise around 30% max but generally sits around 20% on the CPU and no more than 3% on the GPU (i understand that GPU is generally only used for certain effects, transitions). Encoding takes ages! Slower than my previous build which was the ancient sandy bridge 2600k.

My build:
Ryzen 1800x @ 3.9 GHz
GA-AX370 Gaming 7
32 gb GSkill Flare X (2400 MHz) at 3010 MHz
GTX 1080 Ti
Samsung 950 Pro 512 gb (OS Drive)
2 x 2Tb Firecuda
Corsair AX760
Windows 10 Pro
Premiere CC 2018

I have tested this on numerous projects however as a test case I have encoded a 1 minute long Project which contains a mixture of 4k and 1080p slow motion footage with 2 LUTs, warp stabiliser (on selected shots) and a light grain applied. The encode settings are:
H.264
VBR 2 pass with a target bit rate of 50 Mps
3240x2160 (1.0)
29.97 fps
Progressive
Tried CUDA enabled and software only and doesn't make a difference to encode times
The encode takes a whopping 2.32 hours! Something doesn't seem right.

Any help much appreciated.

Cheers,
Chris

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Participant
February 21, 2024

Bro I'm Facing the same issue. i have an i7-6700 , Amd Rx5600xt 6gb, 16gb's of ddr4 3200mhz ram, & an asus mobo. Did you find any solution of this issue???

Peru Bob
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Community Expert
February 21, 2024
Participant
June 26, 2018

I have conducted further testing. When render at maximum bit depth and render best quality options are disabled, premiere utilises much more of the CPU.

Using VBR 1 pass it took 10 minutes to encode. That's a staggering 2.2 hours quicker. Anyone know what is going on here? Why when these options are enabled will the CPU not throttle to 70%??

Participant
June 26, 2018

Anyone able to chime in??