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joelp1572637
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March 7, 2018
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69 Hours for a 4K/60 music video (with audio spectrum) and 30h for 1080p

  • March 7, 2018
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I don't know what I'm doing wrong but I followed a tutorial in youtube to create a audio spectrum, but when I use Adobe Media Encoder to export in recommended settings for YouTube, it takes extremely long. Another fact is that when I start Exporting the CPU goes 100%. Also: It's only 3 min long

My PC Specs:

16Gb RAM

Intel I-7 4790K 4.00GHz (4.30 Boost)

Nvidia Geforce GTX 980

128GB SSD 1TB HDD

I think my PC shoud do it easy...

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joelp1572637Author
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March 8, 2018

I've deleted all the effects and only music with black 4k background tooks 1 hour to render aprox... Then with all effects it tooks 60+ hours. All my processor cores go +100% while rendering. I can't find any help in videos or other posts here, I'm very lost...

Roland Kahlenberg
Roland Kahlenberg
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March 8, 2018

Let's try this strategy - render the background separately first cos with Gaussian Blur, it looks like it's the heaviest to render. CC Light Burst is another effect that can be heavy to render - so 2nd Layer is another candidate for a pre-render, before a final composite. Also, are the Gaussian Blur and CC Light Burst really required for the entirety of the Timeline? If they are not, then split the layer at points where they are required. Then disable them at the points they are not required - of course ensure there is no visual jump at the split points.

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Mylenium
Mylenium
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March 7, 2018

Start by turning off hardware-accelerated encoding and try again.

Mylenium

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joelp1572637Author
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March 7, 2018

13 Hours and going up

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Roland Kahlenberg
Roland Kahlenberg
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March 7, 2018

Other than the audio spectrum effect, what else is happening in the Comp(s) - how many Comps?

How many layers? What other effects are applied?

What format is the audio file?

Have you tried rendering directly from AE?

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joelp1572637Author
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March 7, 2018

It's in spanish but basically 2 compositions, 1 background and music... I tried to render directly from AE (20hours) but I need Media Encoder to get a video that can be uploaded to YouTube. Audio is MP3.

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Roland Kahlenberg
Roland Kahlenberg
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March 7, 2018

I would render through AE first, to a high quality CODEC, like QuickTime DNxHR/DNxHD. Then use this file to input into AME for export into MP4 - this last step will be very quick since AME will not be rendering AE's effects but just converting/compressing from one format to another.

BTW, you can also upload DNHxHR/DNxHD videos to Youtube/Vimeo. The files will be accepted and processed. This actually provides better quality videos on these sites. The only concern with this route is the long upload time.

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