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Jul 16, 2022 12:31 PM UTC
Question

extremely slow creating proxy jobs

So i have the latest PPro and when i create proxies from premiere to media encoder it takes roughly around 30 minutes to do the proxy jobs, when it used to take around 8-9 minutes in the previous versions.

Does anybody knows what's the deal with that? 

The encoding itself works fast and fine. it's only the proccess of creating those proxies from premeire to media encoder takes forever now..

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10Eighteen Media
Known Participant
May 17, 2025 5:46 PM UTC

so is this another issue that Adobe will just ignore? I see why so many people are jumping ship....I might not be far behind at this point.

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GregEdits
Participating Frequently
Jan 3, 2025 7:08 PM UTC

any updates on this? Trying to send Proxy jobs to ME from PR and its taking a couple hours to load several hundred clips

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Participant
Apr 9, 2025 7:43 PM UTC

It happens on my ultra 7 265k and rtx 4080 super, previously i used m1 max, that was smooth as hell

 

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10Eighteen Media
Known Participant
Sep 24, 2024 2:43 AM UTC

Having the same issue it takes forever just to create the  proxy job. It litterally brings me to a stand still as I wait sveral minutes to a half hour just for he proxy job to finish. Most of the time this is longer then encoding the actual proxies

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PolkaFever
Inspiring
Oct 20, 2023 9:29 AM UTC

Hi,

Sometimes projects are set up to automatically transcribe or do pre-required jobs on the imported video and audio. Check your Progress panel, because these jobs will in some cases precede what you want to do and often grind your system to a halt. Hope that helps someone 🙂

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Participating Frequently
Apr 28, 2023 4:13 PM UTC

I'm having the same problem and been having it for years with different versions of Premier Pro. It can take 30 min to send 150 clips to AME which loockes Premiere. This should take max 1 min and absolutely no more. I work with ssd so hardware is not the problem.

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ulfk59041293
Participant
Oct 19, 2023 10:58 AM UTC

No updates?
No solution?

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GabrieleLS
Inspiring
Nov 22, 2022 1:03 PM UTC

Hello, I'm using Premiere Pro 2023 and Media Encoder 2023 on Windows 10. Whenever I ask Premiere to create proxies for my clips, it takes ages just to complete creating the jobs in Media Encoder. That is a huge hassle because it blocks me from working in the meantime.

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jasondecker
Known Participant
Apr 11, 2023 4:45 AM UTC

Having the same experience with Premiere/Media Encoder 2023.2, Windows 11. Sending a batch of Red R3D clips to ME via Premiere's Proxy pipeline, it's taking ~20sec per clip for them to show up in ME. This isn't even accounting for actual creation of the proxy, just getting them to show up in the ME queue. Task manager is showing typical levels so it doesn't seem to be a memory leak, just REALLY SLOW processing in ME.

 

EDIT: As a workaround, I'm just sending the clips to ME via "Export Media..." (bypassing the useless Export page), encoding them to the proper Proxy specs, and then batch renaming them with a _Proxy filename. This works at the expected speed.

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Kombi Life
Inspiring
Sep 15, 2023 2:22 PM UTC

The work around from @jasondecker jasondecker works much faster than the built-in non-functioning PP-ME workflow. Thanks for this.

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Adobe Employee
Jul 16, 2022 2:34 PM UTC

Hi rogey0101,

 

We're sorry to hear about this. Is this happening with any specific project or all of them? Also, have you tried resetting app preferences to isolate any preference corruption issue that might be causing the app to misbehave? 

 

Thanks,

Sumeet

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rogey0101Author
Known Participant
Jul 16, 2022 2:45 PM UTC

Hi, thanks for the reply.

It happens in all projects. Didn't tried the resetting thing, altough i didint change anything. Will try and hopfully it'll help

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