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GMBDirector
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October 27, 2017
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Premiere Pro CC 2018 Render Speed Extremely Slow

  • 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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    kyles16931016
    Participant
    December 31, 2017

    Same here, program was running fine earlier this week but soon as I made minor Lumetri corrections everything just went snails pace. Took over an hour just to render 844 frames!

      bradh72731880
      bradh72731880
      Participant
      January 11, 2018

      anybody a Adobe want to clime in? I upgraded to 2018 and can't even make an insert edit without 40 sec wait? I also will not let me open project in 2017?

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        erick.paulino
        Participant
        December 26, 2017

        I am having tha same issue.

        Windows 8.1, Premiere Pro CC 2018. It feels like CUDA is not being used, although it is correctly selected.

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        A1ex_evans
        Participant
        December 8, 2017

        I'm also having render issues.. even with the timeline rendered a 2min video is taking 10mins to export as a h264, something that would have taken maby 1 min on the previous version.

        It seems even though I'm checking the use previews box for the encode, its not using them..

        Hi Serra 10.13.1

        iMac17,1

        Intel Core i7

        4 GHz

        32 GB RAM

        caroliner7117740
        caroliner7117740
        Participant
        December 16, 2017

        Me too. Running CC2018 in High Sierra and rendering is taking FOREVER. 15-20 seconds every time I make a slight adjustment in Lumetri color…

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          tomchak
          Participant
          November 1, 2017

          I'm having the same issue running Pr 2018 on 10.11.6, so I don't think it's a HS issue.

          Every edit I do into the timeline takes 2-4 seconds and all I'm doing is building a stringer. I've restarted and even created a new project and imported the same media into it but have the same problem.

          I'm sure it will get worked out but in the meantime it's really slowing me down.

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          RobShultzCommunity Expert
          Community Expert
          October 27, 2017

          Did you try cleaning The disk cache? At the top of the interface go to Premiere Pro (MAC) or Edit (Windows)/Media and disk cache/clean unused. Then close Premiere and re-open your project. Hope it helps.

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          GMBDirectorAuthor
          Participant
          October 27, 2017

          Yes.  I cleaned it out.  I tried switching the cache drives.  I've basically done every standard protocol to try and reset.  This has to be an issue/error with the latest version of the software.

          I should mention I'm running OS High Sierra 10.13.


          Everything is up to date and this problem persists.

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