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Premiere Pro CC 2018 Render Speed Extremely Slow

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October 27, 2017
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I recently installed the latest version of Premiere Pro CC 2018 and I am experiencing extremely slow render times. This happens on 1080p footage, 4K footage, GoPro Footage, Mov, H264. I've troubleshot everything I could to know that it is the program itself and not a set up that I have. This has only been happening in the last week since installing the latest version. There are no effects or color grade or anything applied to these clips. To render previews of a 6 minute video with proper timeline settings takes 40-60 minutes. Add any effects to that and it is hours and hours to render out a Youtube H264.

I am running on a MacBook Pro with 16GB of RAM and have never experienced anything this slow. I've already come to far on two projects that I have deadlines for to go back to CC2017 and re-edit them.

Please can someone help.

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galinm97802843

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Trying to do a render of about 18 minutes of footage - ~6 sequences on a timeline. All sequences are individually rendered already and the bar is yellow. It is saying almost 2 HOURS to render footage that is already rendered. How is this possible? It's only 1080 video!

Computer: 8th gen i7+, M.2 NVME, 32GB, GTX 1070 w/8 GB, CC19. Hardware rendering turned on of course.

I'm about 2 seconds from canceling my trial, returning my new computer, and downloading Hit Film or DaVinci onto a cheapo computer. Never encountered these times on Hit Film with my old laptop with a GTX 570M and 12GB of RAM.

Jeff Bugbee

Community Expert

If you've already rendered the sequences, do you have Use Previews checked in your render dialogue?

JBL

Known Participant

41 minutes to render a 1.5 minute video. Just an mp4 with sound. Original file is 4.9MB. No layers, no filters, no extras.

This just after the latest update.

SO thinking of changing to another video software.

Had to use another tool and close Premier.

What happened to Adobe quality?

Please don't make the usual settings suggestions. We've done all that and have notes on all the best settings.

Update. We ran the same file in HitFilm Express (FREE), and it exported to mp4 with the same YouTube settings in 2:12, and on the same computer.

So for those who constantly run into performance issues with Premier like we do and it stalls your workflow, the numbers speak for themselves.

I can see we have to keep HitFilm on hand for the numerous and regular occurrences that this happens. We can't accept this as a business and expect to meet work deadlines.

Listening Adobe?

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bsarfatty

Known Participant

Hmmmm. Have been having this problem too. I just switched hardware acceleration from OpenCL to Metal and it got 100 times faster.

I know Apple has depreciated OpenCL in new OS. So.

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bsarfatty

Known Participant

Still a ton slower than expected.

leem29517194

Participating Frequently

I have a brand new MacBook Pro I9 processor 32 gigs of RAM and I'm dead in the water over here. I am rendering H264 1080P CBR and dropped the quality down to 2 bitrate, estimated size 604 mb, estimated time 3 hours and 4 min!!!!! ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME! Adobe what is going on !????!

Jeff Bugbee

Community Expert

leem29517194 wrote
I have a brand new MacBook Pro I9 processor 32 gigs of RAM and I'm dead in the water over here. I am rendering H264 1080P CBR and dropped the quality down to 2 bitrate, estimated size 604 mb, estimated time 3 hours and 4 min!!!!! ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME! Adobe what is going on !????!

What is your Renderer set to? What is your Memory settings set to? Make sure in your export window you have Hardware Encoding selected.

leem29517194

Participating Frequently

Hello,

I have my renderer set to Mercury playback Engine GPU Acceleration (OpenCL).

Best Regards,

Lee Morgan

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thomasb32928775

Participant

I ran into the same issue i guess. The only thing i changed was that i unchecked the "render at maximum depth" field. For me this made the difference between 28 minutes to 17 minutes on a 1 minute clip. It's still waaaaay to slow though...

Tabb Informática

Participant

Hail!

I have a DELL Notebook 16 GB RAM, Intel Core i7 8085u SSD Lite-on 120GB and I'm trying to render a Motion Graphic with 4 seconds and It takes almost 15 minutes. I tried all configs you can imagine, nothing solves the issue. :O It was not like that before.

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nocturnetouch

Inspiring

Windows 10 Pro. Premiere Pro CC 2018. AMD 1950x , 64gb of ddr4 , 2x gtx 1080s in SLI. Samsung 960 Evo NVMe OS drive. Samsung 970 Evo NVMe source drive, 970 Evo NVMe Scratch drive. Taking 7 hours with cuda acceleration to render 8 minutes of 1080p footage with a few adjustment layers and some denoise.... Using the YouTube 1080p preset. What is going on Adobe?

sonny_lie72

Participant

My Solution :

Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017

Macpro - Sierra

Open OnyX - Veryfy password - Maintenance ( Check ) - Permissions ( Repair ) - Scripts ( Run Scripts - Clean All ) - Rebuilding ( Run Tasks )

Restart...

Re-Install provideoformats. ( if the quicktime format export is lost )

OnyX : https://www.titanium-software.fr/en/onyx.html

Pro Video Formats 2.0.4 : Pro Video Formats 2.0.4

May be useful

Thanks,

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magnusa87184349

Participant

The big deal here is that something has happened to the software. People with top-notch systems who haven't had issues with export/rendering before have problems now. Something has gone wrong in one or more of the latest updates.

Kevin J. Monahan Jr.

Community Manager

Hi MagnusA,

Have you filed a bug yet? Please do so here: Premiere Pro: Hot (1429 ideas) – Adobe video & audio apps

For any export issues, I would highly recommend the smart rendering workflow. See if that works better for you for now.

Thanks,
Kevin

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

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jodyb78477667

Inspiring

Kevin-Monahan I am using smart rendering now and the biggest problem I have is that the output files are so huge that even with a beefy RAID array the disks become a bottleneck at 1080p. I strongly prefer to output to compressed lossless format and encode to H.264 AVC with Handbrake, and the way I was doing it before was exporting to AVI with UtVideo 4:2:0 Rec.709 which is both lossless and compresses well. I need smart rendering to splice the preview AVIs together. I could use ffmpeg to do it myself if I really wanted to spend that much time writing a workaround script but it would be so much easier if Premiere would smart render AVI to AVI as long as the FOURCCs and dimensions are all the same (which they will be in Premiere previews).

My two-hour video produces 1TB of previews in QuickTime Animation mode, 1080p 29.97 48kHz 16-bit. UtVideo is a fraction of that and still lossless but smart rendering doesn't work with it.

Also, none of this explains why Premiere can render the whole video during editing in real time, effects and all, but takes 4-5 times the real length to render to any kind of export and only about 40 percent better with renders to previews of any format. I know that it uses different scaling algorithms during different renders and whatnot but the difference is stark.

jstrawn

Legend

There are a lot of posts here and this is my first time coming across this thread, so please pardon my if I missed the info I need in previous posts.

Are we talking about Export Media (direct from Pr Export Settings dialog), Export via AME, Export as MOGRT or something else?

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jodyb78477667

Inspiring

I do all exports using File > Export > Media. AME performs the same as Premiere when I try it though. See my message at Re: Premiere Pro CC 2018 Render Speed Extremely Slow and previous replies; I find the Lumetri secondary correction slowdown especially interesting.

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