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P: Extremely Slow Render/Export on Adobe Media Encoder 2022

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March 15, 2022
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I have been waiting for more than 30 mins for the final video to be rendered. It's already 40 mins and it's barely 50% rendered. Never had this issue before. My laptop specs are as below and my GPU is RTX 3070.

Anyone knows how to solve this sudden issue?

Correct answer Fergus H

Hi all,
Despite receiving test files from many of you (thank you!), we have not been able to reproduce this problem at Adobe. That's a bit unusual and certainly frustrating - to you and us - but we do think this issue has been fixed in the latest beta of After Effects and Media Encoder. We'd love to get your feedback on that. Creative Cloud betas are specifically designed to run alongside the release versions and are available in the "Beta apps" section of Creative Cloud Desktop. More information is here: https://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/creative-cloud-beta.html

The v23.x beta of After Effects also has the ability to directly export H.264 - without having to use Media Encoder - so your feedback on this would be useful too. More information is available here: https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects-beta-discussions/feature-focus-exporting-h-264-from-the-after-effects-render-queue/td-p/13117618

Regards,

Fergus

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nocturnetouch

Inspiring

Same here. AMD 2950x with 128GB of ram with two 2080supers in SLI and it's NEVER been this slow. For some reason it only renders on 1 gpu now also. I've been dealing with creative cloud issues for years and now this takes the cake. Has anyone heard from adobe why their latest products are such trash?

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Alex25647913afbt

Participant

Hi everyone!
Same here, im using the latest version of After Effects and Media encore an its taking so long to export a 11 min video, even i restarted my PC 'cause i thinka that maybe solved the problem:

My Specs are:
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core Processor 3.80 GHz
32 GB RAM
NVIDIA RTX 3070 8gb

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jenkmeister17177426

Please try the steps I posted above your post and see if any of those help.

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Arrakis

Inspiring

This is happening to me now. 9 hours to render a comp with a shape with no effects or transformation, just a shape layer sitting there doing nothing!! Im over paying good money for this rubbish

Kevin J. Monahan Jr.

Legend

Hi Arrakis,

Sorry about that. Can you try a different codec? What happens?

Thanks,

Kevin

Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community and Engagement Strategist – Adobe Pro Video and Audio

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Arrakis

Inspiring

But Im using H264!! supposed to be the best one for smaller files right? Its not my computer because I have a $5000 custom built machine and it was fine but suddenly your software decides to stop rendering. Seriously sick of updates that just break everything.

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jenkmeister17177426

Thanks for all the details so far. If you are rendering an After Effects composition to H.264, we are wondering if you would try out the latest AE Beta (also available in the Creative Cloud Desktop app) as it now has native H.264 export from the Render Queue. We'd like to try to understand if the slowdown in rendering happens in AE itself, or with H.264, or with the connection to AME.

Whatever projects you can share, stripped to the minimal number of layers/effects/plugins/etc, to reproduce the problem, would be really helpful. There likely isn't a single cause here, and could be one of many things (available memory to AE/AME, plugins that do and don't support Multi-Frame Rendering, types of footage being used, etc.) so as much as you can share with us, the better chance we have of helping.

Thanks!

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WolfSZ78

Known Participant

It's taking me over two days to render off 4 minutes of video. Luckily, I was able to break the video up a bit so that way it's 14 files it's exporting to, each taking 2-4 hours at 10-20 seconds per comp, instead of 1 file. Once it's all done I'll just recompile it into Premiere. That way I can at least give my computer a break at the end of the day after 12 hours of rendering, and if anything does go wrong, I didn't lose all of my progress.

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WolfSZ78

Known Participant

I also tweaked the output preset so there's no audio, and it's the lowest file size possible while still being at 1080p. For context, a standard YouTube 1080p Full HD version would be 40-120 MB whereas this preset clocks in at 20-60 MB per video, and it's still taking 2 days to render off all the comps.

Personally speaking, the real frosting on the cake is that this time last year I was rendering off videos on my old computer, with only 12 GB of RAM, much faster. The exact video I'm rendering now is an updated version of a previous video, which only took about 8 hours to render off last year. Though now with 32 GB of RAM, a stellar graphics card, and great CPU - I'm clocking in at 20-30 hours to render.

I tried to see if I could transfer the file between computers, to eliminate and isolate potential variables for troubleshooting, but I am having no such luck in this situation. Render times shot up even more, which I expected and is good news for the new computer, but dang was I hopeful that I wouldn't have to waste two days on rendering.

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WolfSZ78

Known Participant

The only thing that's saving me right now is exporting from After Effects to AME with the "MP4 1080p (No Audio)" preset I made, recompiling it in Premiere, and exporting directly from Premiere. The YouTube 1080p Full HD setting would've added whole days to my render time, tried it on one video and got a 6 hour render time for a 20 second clip, whereas now I am looking at 1-3 hours for a 20 second clip.

It's something, but dang does it still hurt.

I guess, in the meantime while Adobe looks into this, is there any external hardware that could help boost my rendering speed? It's to the point I feel like I need to get a new-new computer just for rendering off videos, but even if I had double the specs, I feel like it would still take just as long.

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marianap85

Participant

I am having the same issue. Compositions from After Effects are taking way longer than usual to export via Adobe Media Encoder. This particular comp today is less than 30 seconds, uses minimal effects within AE (no plug ins), PNG image files, and 1 photoshop file (static image). It's taking 30+ minutes to export. This is a file I export weekly and it used to take 1 minute to export. I tried re-downloading a previous version of AE and AME, did not help.

Fergus H

Community Manager

I will send you a DM, as I'd love to get a copy of that file.

Regards,

Fergus

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Teddy5F96

Participant

Hi,

Is this going to be solved quickly? I film hours and hours of Elearning videos each week. I used to have a watch folder for automatic exports with another machine. Now I can't even meet my deadlines...this is really really bothering me and makinf me loose money. Just simple H264 10 bit footage. RTX 3080 ti i9 12900k. Everything is painfully slow an unusable. Where i used to export in 5min, I now need 30 or 50 min...per lesson! On course is composed of 25-35 lessons. I film between 1-3 courses a week. I´ll let you do the math...Adobe please we need a fix. quickly!

Fergus H

Community Manager

[I'm marking this as "Correct" to keep it at the top of this thread. We have not yet been able to reproduce this problem at Adobe so we are very eager to get files that demonstrate the issue.]

Hi all,

I'm the product manager for Media Encoder and I'm very eager to get this problem resolved. If you would be willing to share an AE comp and the related media, fonts, and plugins with us for testing, please send me a private message via the forum.

Fixing this issue is my team's number one priority. Candidly, we've not done enough, fast enough, to jump on this issue and I apologize for that.

Regards,

Fergus

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Beregron

Participant

Hello Fergus,

i could send you my little project, but it's very big....

One thing i noticed right now, lucky there is YouTube, if i turn OFF the multi frame rendering, then the renderlist and Media Encoder don't get stuck so easily.

If multi frame rendering is on, for the first seconds the rendering is really fast and AE uses about 50% of the CPU (althoug i set up to use up to 90%) and then the usage of the CPU get down to 0,3 to 1,8%....

By the Way: If multiframe rendering is off the preview runs much faster then with multi frame is set to on. How can it be?

Anyway, i think that the slow rendertimes are a bug caused by multiframe rendering.

Fergus H

Community Manager

Thanks for the info! I'll ask the team to look into the MFR idea.

It's no problem for us to get a big file, if you're willing to upload it. If so, DM me.

Fergus H

Community Manager

To you (and everyone else who's seen this issue), can you tell us if the Premiere Pro projects you're trying to export from Media Encoder include content from After Effects? That would include Motion Graphics templates (.mogrt files).

Thanks.

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MatKing_|_Portfolio

Known Participant

I'm not using Premiere, only After Effects. I'm using plugins/templates in After Effects.

Fergus H

Community Manager

Thanks. Would it be possible for you to share the AE comp with me?

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824adobeavn

Participating Frequently

Same here. I'm rendering a file that, when rendered a month ago, took about 50 minutes. Now, after updating Media Encoder, I'm at 3 hours and it's only 2/3 done. Very upsetting when on a DEADLINE.

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Marx25506319f8qj

Participant

Same problem here, in a 1 min 30 sec project , it took about 1 hour 30 min, extreme slow!!

Fergus H

Community Manager

Would it be possible for you to test this issue using the latest beta of Premiere Pro and Media Encoder? The beta is easy to install and it runs completely separately from the version you currently have installed. Here's more information about the beta:

https://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/creative-cloud-beta.html

Thanks.

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MatKing_|_Portfolio

Known Participant

Same here. It's rendering extremely slow all of the sudden. It barely even works...