Media Encoder CC 2018 Very Slow

I'm having the same issue...

But I don't think it's with the Encoder solely.  I have a 4k project that is 25 min and it was taking 17 hours to render until I removed the Red Giant effects from my footage. Now it's taking 2.5 hours to render. 

I have that issue too. I encode h.264 files which took about 30 min with media encode cc 2017 now take around 2 hours to get done. pls fix this.

I too am having this issue. Latest Media Encoder Updates have turned encoding into a 7-16 hour deal.

Even 30 second clips can take 5-9 minutes.

I don't need to need to update any drivers, my rig is built with 64GB Ram and 32 2.9GHz Xeon Cores. Encoding SHOULD be fast.

I do edit 4k H264 files with proxies. Only the encoding the process has slowed.

There is something wrong with Media Encoder. A setting is wrong or Adobe has fouled up something to do with H264 files. I have tried the trick unchecking the box Import Sequesnces Native to see if that helps. I also see that some have good luck with a reboot and the first encode doing fine. I will test that too.

I have the same problem! After a reboot of the computer the first render in the queue goes quick, then the next in the queue just goes extremely slow.

Before I could stay away from this shit called Media Encoder but now when Adobe REMOVED the option to render to H264 in AE I have to use it. I do H264s at the end of the work day to show progress to clients and this completely F**Ks up my work.

And this problem has existed for more than a year. Sigh...

After the subscription model Adobe has become, lazy, slow and dumb (as was to be expected).

Same issue here.  After upgrading, it takes minutes for a render from After Effects to appear in AME's queue.  Rendering also seems to be quite slow.  AME seems to often hang while rendering during the 'Connecting to Dynamic Link server' phase.  Very frustrating.

graphter  schrieb I'm having the same issue since upgrading to Media Encoder CC 2018 a few days ago. Previously my 10 to 20 second videos were rendering in no time. Now the exact same videos are taking ages to render or not rendering at all. For me the main issue is that they take 5 minutes to begin rendering, and I frequently get 'Cannot read from source' errors, or Media Encoder just hangs. Prior to updating the software I had no issues. Software only or GPU Acceleration makes no difference. MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014) Processor: 2.5 GHz Intel Core i7 Memory: 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M 2048 MB Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB Adobe Media Encoder CC 2018 Comps created in After Effects CC 2018, which I updated at the same time. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

It has nothing to do with accelerated effects. All 2018 Versions of premiere pro and AME have a bug, which does not let them use MPE on export. The ONLY possible solution is rolling back to cc 2017 or earlier. creative cloud desktop lets you do that. Scroll to your app and under "more" there is a link "other versions".

I've been dealing with this over the last two weeks. Spent hours on chats with adobe support (You get know a lot of indian names that way). Adobe is in complete denial of this.

Trust me. I rolled back this morning to cc2017  and everything works perfect. And although I haven't used Effects with are supported by MPE, I am now able to export a sequence in 40 min., which took 4 hours before.

Hi All,

A new update for Media Encoder & Premiere Pro is available, 12.1.1. Please update and let us know the issue status.

Thanks,

Vidya

Did you ever get this fixed?  I have the same problem and it's driving me crazy.  Took an hour to render a 30 second video!

I'm having this, too.

I note that other users are complaining about renders from AE and I'm talking Premiere Pro; I do think this is the right topic since both programs render in AME and the complaint is slow processing. If someone wants to move this feel free.

Granted I'm processing MP4s of 4K files but the times are WAY longer and the amount of processor and memory taken up WAY less.

My system is Windows 10 Pro, 32GB DDR-3 RAM, i7-4770K. Files are written to a 30TB RAID. Video is GTX 1050 Ti with 4GB.

I have all but 6GB allocated to Adobe. I notice that the system is using far fewer resources than it did in past versions.

RIght now, I'm outputting a 4K file at "high bitrate" of an opera I recorded this past weekend (i.e. brand new project) on my Sony FDR-AX100 camcorder. The file is 2 hours 6 minutes in length. I've done these where processing is between 4 and 6 hours; this one now predicts 17 hours. There's nothing new in my system architecture, the type of video I'm using (had the AX100 since it came out in 2014) or anything else I can imagine.

All software is CC 2018 completely up to date.

What could this possibly be?

Hi Graphter,

Have you resolved the issue? Please let us know the status.