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DrSPH
DrSPH
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January 3, 2025
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Having trouble with simple trimming, titles and exporting. Please help.

  • January 3, 2025
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Yeah, I know Adobe and the entire "creative cloud" is all professional grade software, but each program shouldn't require graduate training to get basic features to work. 

It has taken me hours to just take one video, trim extraneous opening, middle, & ends from the video and add title & closing credits.


I finally get that done and then set to export the final product. 
Two attempts and 3 hours later and it locks at 100%.


Yes, I have searched the Web. 
The app is set to use hardware not software encoding.
I am using a brand new Samsung Galaxy Book4 Pro 360 running a Intel Core Ultra 7 155H 3.80 GHz with 16.0 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD installed, with 1 TB microSD added, Windows 11 ... but I've made sure that nothing else was running while rendering was in progress. 

I could delve into the voluminous other suggestions about codecs and file wrappers, but all I want to do is save a freaking video!

 

Mod note: I edited your title to match better with your issue. Sorry for the frustration, however, please do not use all caps in our forums. We will remove them for readability here.

    Correct answer PaulMurphy

    To help you address the export time, we’ll need a bit more information about your project. Specifically:

    • What are the specifications of your source footage (e.g., resolution, frame rate, codec)?
    • What sequence settings are you using?
    • What export settings have you selected (e.g., resolution, format, bitrate)?


    The mention of a 3-hour export time is hard to evaluate without knowing the duration of your sequence and the resolution you’re working with. Once we have those details, we can help identify potential areas for optimization.

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    PaulMurphyCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    January 4, 2025

    To help you address the export time, we’ll need a bit more information about your project. Specifically:

    • What are the specifications of your source footage (e.g., resolution, frame rate, codec)?
    • What sequence settings are you using?
    • What export settings have you selected (e.g., resolution, format, bitrate)?


    The mention of a 3-hour export time is hard to evaluate without knowing the duration of your sequence and the resolution you’re working with. Once we have those details, we can help identify potential areas for optimization.

      R Neil Haugen
      R Neil Haugen
      Legend
      January 3, 2025

      That is very minimal equipment for Premiere. 6 full cores, a couple more mostly usable, kinda almost adequate. But 16 GB of RAM is also pretty minimal. That this app actually runs is kind of amazing. V24 might do better on that rig.

       

      Premiere's a complicated and complex app, as are all the pro level video post apps. They all assume the user wants full manual control of everything, and knows how to use the app to automate some processes.

       

      I also work in Resolve regularly, and again, that app requires a lot of user learning time also.

       

      Prosumer editing apps do automate more things, and so are easier for new users to work with.

      Everyone's mileage always varies ...
        DrSPH
        DrSPHAuthor
        Participant
        January 6, 2025
        Well, that is interesting information about what hardware is considered adequate.

        An off-the-shelf flagship laptop from a major manufacturer doesn't qualify, so maybe Adobe should stop bundling so many ultra pro level applications in a package they market to the entire consumer base. (I subscribed with an educator's discount, mostly for Acrobat and for Photoshop/Lightroom as my avocation has been photography for many years. )
        R Neil Haugen
        R Neil Haugen
        Legend
        January 6, 2025

        Adobe makes two video editing apps ... Premiere Pro and Premiere Elements. Elements is not part of the CC Suite, and is designed for prosumer use. It is quite capable in its own way of doing interesting video, but not to the level of Premiere.

         

        The CC Suite applications are all built around professional use workflows and needs. Like Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, AfterEffects ... all of them based on the assumption of professional use. They all heavily use available computer resources.

         

        Even gamers get computers built for specific game use, of course.

         

        And like hardware built for gaming use, most of the Adobe CC apps benefit from being run on computers chosen for use with specific apps. A computer that is awesome for Photoshop and InDesign will perhaps not do so well with Premiere and AfterEffects.

        Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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