Adobe Media Encoder 2019 very slow

Windows 10 PC, Intel i7 quad core, 64GB RAM, in 2018 AME ran with acceptable times.Maybe 10 minutes to encode an 8-12 minute video.

Today, I finished a 6:41 video, sent it to the AME queue, and it took MORE THAN SIX HOURS to render.

This is not acceptable.

Open Media Encoder 2019 on a Mac Pro (OS 10.13.6) with 64 GB of RAM and 2 AMD Firepro D300 2048 MB graphics cards.

Beach ball for 1 minute before it even begins loading it's plugins.  Load Plugin for 30 seconds, beach ball for another 45 seconds.

The program opens.  Click on a hard drive in the media browser window.  2 minute beach ball.  Hard drive opens.  Try to open a folder in the hard drive.  2 minute beach ball.  Folder opens.  Drag a file to the queue.  2 minute beach ball.  File shows up in queue.  Click to set compression settings... 2 minute beach ball.  Set compression settings.  Click to set the destination for the new file.  2 minute beach ball.  Choose destination.

That took 10 minutes.  6 more files to go before I can start rendering a queue of files....

This is after setting the Renderer to "Open CL"

Infuriating.

Yeah this is really really bad. I generally do 3-4 minute clips that I render in 1080p. Usually it takes less than 1 minute to render but now it's saying over 1 hour in AME. I took some of the advice in the thread and rendered directly in Premiere. It rendered in less than a minute like I expected. This is extremely poor and is making me think of going to resolve. Also when I send an item to AME from premiere or after effects, AME opens but nothing goes into the queue. I have to close AME and re-open it and everything appears. I really don't understand how Adobe can keep adding these bugs to their software.

Same problem here.  The previous version (cc2019) worked great. Now with version 2019.1 rendering is miserable.  I have been using Premiere since version CS4.   I bout had it.  I guess it’s time to cancel this and move on to Resolve 16. 

This problem is frustrating. I have a project that rendered in an earlier version of AME in 1.5 hours. Now it shows 51 hours, and the estimated time only goes up, never down.

I unchecked "import sequences natively" in AME.

I completely uninstalled NVIDIA drivers and did a new install.

Uninstalled and reinstalled PP and AME.

Adobe has often rolled out "upgrades" that make render times impossible to deal with.

Same problem here. My ´´solution´´ is rendering inside premiere pro. I´m just not using AME. And of course, that´s a shame because in a lot of ways, slow down my entire workflow and therefore, I lose money. These type of bugs are really getting boring over the time (I´m a very old Adobe user)...

Same issue here. I do short (3-8min) and long (2+ hours) exports in h.264. Before the latest update, I had standard times and a reliable queue.

Latest 2+hour video (2:17:00) -- it takes around 7 minutes to simply return a 'time remaining' and then says 80 hours remaining. After stalling, the time remaining will show a flurry of activity and then go up, climbing to 90 hours, 100 hours. It's absurd.

Exporting directly from Premiere showed similar delay. I updated Nvidia drivers (GTX 1070) and tried exporting with CUDA, OpenCL and software only. No changes. I updated the onboard intel graphics driver. No fix. I relocated assets to different hard drives, all SSDs. Nothing. Finally I got it to work directly from Premiere but AME is still a no go. I deactivated Intel graphics driver. I tried changing the mercury render engine in project settings. No help.

Watching the the component utilization in task manager, I noticed something weird:

When it works (directly from Premiere): CPU usage -- 80+ percent solid; Intel graphics (GPU 0): 30-50% solid; GTX 1070 (GPU 1): 50-60% solid. It works!

When "exporting" from AME:  CPU at 17% with brief activity spikes at regular intervals, GPU 0 total flatline, GPU 1 6% with similar activity spikes to the CPU.

Adobe, you broke the ability to create videos. How about -- just spitballin' here -- shifting some resources from new features nobody uses and working on the ability export videos in less than 4 days? I know, CRAZY idea. (seriously, release a version whose primary feature is stability and have a beta program for people willing to risk this kind of nonsense)

I don't care how many bells and whistles it has, if it doesn't drive, it's not a car. Right now, you're selling lemons.

Machine:

32gb ram, gtx 1070, i7 4790K, Windows 10 - over 10 years editing experience on PC and Mac.

I'm having the same problem after the April update.

In a simple video conversion, the same file with the same settings went from 15 minutes to 8 HOURS !!!

The processor does not exceed 10% of use during coding. Previously it was 100%.

It is not a video driver problem or any conflict. By Premiere the rendering works normally.

Just like the bugs I reported in the previous version Adobe will not fix until the following year.

Hello,

I've never used the AME, installed it right now to test it and... omg what's wrong with this program?

Importing 6 animations coded in h264 took like 4 minutes, changing an encoding preset takes 10-15 seconds, opening the dialog box takes 30 seconds... Should I change some settings?

I have surface book 2, with Intel Core i7-8650U, nvidia GTX 1050 and 8g ram and this program is just not working at all. I took mi like 10 minutes to change encoding presets of 6 files, Rendering however isn't that bad, it gone somehow fast.

But even so, I used free prism to encode my 6 videos and I've checked 6 presetes with it, when trying to use AME I havent finished one yet.

Unfortunately same here.  AME is very slow on rendering premiere projects with h.264 *.mp4 files on timeline. Or rather "re-rendering"

cause rendering to mp4 h264 is fine, just rendering to timelines with mp4 files on them is very slow.

My typical project is made of ~30 second h264 mp4 file intro, then few minutes of mxf files and then 10-15 seconds h.264 mp4 outro.

Before latest update I would render entire timeline in about 3-4 minutes.

Now using AME 13.1, April version it takes about 12-14 minutes to render mp4 intro, 2-4 minutes to render mxf files and another ~10 minutes to render mp4 outro.

Just finished rendering a FHD, 25 fps, 3:13 long movie with hardware rendering in 27 minutes!