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Jul 29, 2025 9:26 PM UTC
Question

Chroma Key Export Takes Hours

Any advice : whenver i'm exporting a fairly short video 10mins using chroma key (green screen).  Its taking 2 hours to export which is unusual.   I've seen some people report this once or twice.

Any advice on how to reach tech support or where I can go to get help. 

 

The video is in 1080p, not 4k.  If I remove the content thats chroma keyed, the exporting time goes down drastically to like 10mins. Format is  H.264, Preset I'm using is Match Source - Adaptive Medium.  (render at maximum depth & use maxium render quality is unchecked)

 

Any advice would be helpful.

 

1Terabyte of storage , only 932 GB used.   Intel R HD Graphics 630 (128MB Graphics Card), 12.0 GB Installed Ram, Processor is Intel (R) Core TM I5-7400 CPU  3.00GHz. Windows 11 Pro

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R Neil Haugen
Legend
Aug 1, 2025 2:25 AM UTC

Photoshop can of course resize easily. And there wouldn't be any visual data loss due to resizing down. So that would work well.

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Participant
Jul 31, 2025 11:25 PM UTC

yes, any advice on how to resize without losing quality or cutting the picture off. ? Are there any products within adobe that can handle that request of resizing ? 

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jamieclarke
Community Manager
Community Manager
Jul 31, 2025 2:42 PM UTC

Hi @latinaw83533359 -   Thanks for the info. an image with a resolution of 4248x5712 in a 1080p sequence can definitely slow down exports Premiere has to scale and process that large image for every frame it appears.

To improve performance, we recommend resizing the image to better match your sequence resolution before importing it into Premiere. For a 1080p timeline, scaling the image down to something closer to 1920x1080 can help speed up both playback and export times.

Let us know if you need help resizing or if the issue continues after trying that.

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Participant
Jul 31, 2025 4:38 AM UTC

I think I (may) have figured out the problem. I had a picture file on the timeline 10.8 MB.  When I removed it, it decreased export time.  I have attached the details of the picture.   Any advice on how to avoid this in the future? Do i have to check every single picture I'm using in all of my videos to make sure its compatible ? 

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jamieclarke
Community Manager
Community Manager
Jul 30, 2025 1:31 PM UTC

Hi @latinaw83533359 - We still need more information, Please see, How to Report a Problem.

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Participant
Jul 29, 2025 10:31 PM UTC

I'm sorry i used the wrong word.  I'm using the "Ultra" key effect in Adobe premier. 

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jamieclarke
Community Manager
Community Manager
Jul 29, 2025 10:04 PM UTC

Hi @latinaw83533359 -   Thanks for submitting your bug report. We need a few more details to try to help with the issue.
Please see, How to Report a Problem.

 

Are you using "Ultra Key" or a third party plugin?

 

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