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minutephysics
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March 18, 2014
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Premiere Pro CC taking FOREVER to export

  • March 18, 2014
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I'm on a mac (2013 imac and macbook pro, 24GB/16GB ram, etc) and Premiere Pro used to export just fine (~10 minutes for 3 minute 1080p video to h.264, everything pre-rendered) and now on both of my machines it seems like PP isn't able to use the rendered files EVEN when I select "use previews" because it takes 30-40 minutes to export now. As an aside, I have to render essentially every second of my timeline due to the nature of the footage & effects I'm using - my footage is image sequences of jpgs that are a weird size, the timeline is 1920x1080 though. Media Encoder isn't any faster, either. It doesn't matter whether I use software or CUDA accelerated export, either. They are all slow.

I'm getting no direct indication that there's an error - just that PP takes far too long to export. Unacceptably long. Rendering times are fine, so there's not a problem with my system there.

Thanks,

Henry

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Correct answer Kevin J. Monahan Jr.

Hi,

This FAQ may assist those that need help exporting faster: FAQ: How do I speed up rendering, exporting, or encoding?

Thanks,
Kevin

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gtunico
Participant
June 18, 2020

I've recently updated my premiere and media encoder, and now it's taking like 30 min to export a 10 seconds clip (before it would export that in 1min) with almost no fx. Is this seriously? Not mentioning all the other issues I'm facing with the others softwares like photoshop and illustrator. I currently spent more time searching the web for solutions or trying to figure out on my own, than creating and working on my artwork. Adobe need to start commiting to they users.

    LeMarkD
    LeMarkD
    Participating Frequently
    July 25, 2021

    I was having similar issues, I just discovered that when I updated from premiere 2020 to 2021 the "use previews" and "use proxies" boxes were unchecked, it brought me back from all day renders for a 30 minute video with minimal cpu/ram usage back to minute for minute video renders! Try it and see if that fixes it!

      Jeff Bellune
      Jeff Bellune
      Legend
      July 25, 2021

      Please don't post the same thing over and over. Posting your information once in a thread is sufficient. Thanks.

      mcush30198539
      mcush30198539
      Participant
      April 12, 2018

      Ah. I searched this topic because my video just took 50 minutes to export 1%. If my maths is correct this means my 22minute video is going to take 3 and half days!

        johnc65617858
        johnc65617858
        Participating Frequently
        April 19, 2020

        I feel your pain just exporting my 16min project only 83 hrs 52 mins to go 😮

         

        haydnm76464178
        haydnm76464178
        Participant
        April 20, 2017

        It's now 2017 and rendering times are still horrifically slow. Adobe have you broken Premier and the media encoder?

        LeMarkD
        LeMarkD
        Participating Frequently
        July 25, 2021

        When you go to render make sure the "use previews" and "use proxies" boxes are checked, took me from all day renders back to my almost minute for minute rendering!

          AnthonyD422343546456
          AnthonyD422343546456
          Participant
          July 17, 2016

          Ditto this. I do a regular, reoccurring job 3 times a month with the same cameras for the past year and it's been taking just a little more than realtime for a 960x540 H264 export. Since upgrading to 2015.3 the exact same camera codec/sequence settings with the same export preset takes 3x longer. Something definitely changed for the worse.

          Kevin J. Monahan Jr.
          Community Manager
          Kevin J. Monahan Jr.Community ManagerCorrect answer
          Community Manager
          May 7, 2016

          Hi,

          This FAQ may assist those that need help exporting faster: FAQ: How do I speed up rendering, exporting, or encoding?

          Thanks,
          Kevin

          Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community and Engagement Strategist – Adobe Pro Video and Audio
            evan-g
            evan-g
            Participant
            May 7, 2016

            Certainly there must be a bug or something.

            Rendertimes  for a 2 hour sequence queued to AME for h264.mp4 export show 43 hours?

            Source mts 1080, some titles and lumetri color correction for WB, exported to mp4.

            Used to be 4-8 nours not 40+...

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            CEF Ljubljana
            Participant
            April 20, 2016

            I can confirm this is an issue. I am on MAC el capitan 10.11.4 and the exports are unusable.. 6min of video with lowest possible quality (estimated size 25mb) takes 2 hours.. Is there somebody that can help me fix this? I've tried rendering,software, opencl, seperate media encoder.. nothing helps..

            On the other note, my previous machine is a ultra powerfull Windows media PC with quadro.. and I noticed that all my projects which previously exported in minutes are now taking a lot longer... the updates must have broke something.

            Is there a fix?

              J
              juhon55841182
              Participant
              April 2, 2016

              Just got a new computer with double the amount of memory of the previous one. Naturally the CPU is a bit more powerfull too. Installed adobe Products to a clean Win 10 and tried to export a 15 second Full HD movie.

              I had time to drive to the grocery store and come back and the process still wasn't finished! 15 Seconds of movie!!!!

              Premiere Pro has become a joke and I'm done with it for good now. Somehow I hoped that a new computer might help, but no.

              RippleRoadProductions
              RippleRoadProductions
              Participating Frequently
              April 2, 2016

              Couple questions about your new PC... (I just built a new PC as a dedicated editing station, and things that took 8-15 hours to export before are now taking 5-7 minutes, with other programs running in the background)

              How much memory total?  I'm running 64gb, and can preview in Premiere even with Lumetri on full res.

              How much memory in your video card / what kind of card?

              How fast is your drive(s)?  If you are working with anything less than 7200rpm, it's going to be very slow to export.  And RAM doesn't always matter during exports and renders, your VRAM is super important. 

              J
              juhon55841182
              Participant
              April 2, 2016

              ‌I'm not going to entertain this at all. 15 seconds of full HD should be doable in just about any relatively recent computer. My fall back program, Pinnacle Studio, is lightning fast compared to PP and even my phone outperforms PP in handling videos. I have no interest in spending any more time resolving the issue. While I appreciate the effort to help, I'm now beyond that.

              I'm only glad I didn't pay for PP separately and my ther Adobe årograms seems to work ok.

              S
              sarahr19372123
              Participant
              March 17, 2016

              Same problem here, with just basic color grading the export takes more than 2 hours for a 8 minutes video and crash. I had to export it without any correction and grade it on... Final Cut 7... it tooks 10 minutes to render. Please help Adobe, I'm so disappointed.

              Premiere Pro CC2015

              MBP 10.9.5

              16 GB

              i7 2,2 Ghz

              Kevin J. Monahan Jr.
              Community Manager
              Kevin J. Monahan Jr.Community Manager
              Community Manager
              March 19, 2016

              Hi SarahR,

              Same problem here, with just basic color grading the export takes more than 2 hours for a 8 minutes video and crash.

              Are you using any LUTs in your grading? If so, what happens if you remove them?

              Thanks,
              Kevin

              Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community and Engagement Strategist – Adobe Pro Video and Audio
              Herbiedriver
              Herbiedriver
              Participating Frequently
              April 8, 2016

              Kevin, perhaps you can help.

              Same problem, 1:05 movie clip, nothing special, trimmed to that time, no effects, no color grading. On an imac i7 the Export Media to h.264 High Bit Rate same as source takes 2:01 to render and export.  On a new Mac Pro (3.7ghz quad, dual AMD d300s) clean install of system and only running Newest Adobe CC the same project takes 12 minutes for a 1:05 clip....

              Very frustrating.

              Jes2000
              Jes2000
              Known Participant
              March 14, 2016

              WOW! So glad it's not me who's the problem. I thought I was doing something wrong although I knew nothing I'm doing has changed. I think I'll just go back to CC 2014. Everything was great until I updated to 2015. I'm rendering a 3.5 minute video as we speak, and it's going to take 45 min!!

              Kevin J. Monahan Jr.
              Community Manager
              Kevin J. Monahan Jr.Community Manager
              Community Manager
              March 15, 2016

              Hi Jes2000,

              Is GPU acceleration enabled for Premiere Pro? For Media Encoder? Please make sure that they are enabled for best results on encoding, especially if scaling is involved.

              Thanks,
              Kevin

              Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community and Engagement Strategist – Adobe Pro Video and Audio
              Jes2000
              Jes2000
              Known Participant
              March 15, 2016

              Yes, I always have GPU acceleration enabled in both. Like I said, everything was working beautifully up until about a month or so ago.

              D
              dgolubov
              Participating Frequently
              February 19, 2016

              I started using CC 2015 last September (2015) on Windows 8.1 and until the last two videos I exported in the last week, the export times were fine.  Now it's taking 1 hour to export a 2 minute video, with no effects at all apart from video transitions, which I used many times.  What's going on?  Is there a fix for this?  And, no, I have no intention of upgrading to next version of Windows in the near future.

              D
              dgolubov
              Participating Frequently
              March 15, 2016

              Just coming here to say that my particular issue got fixed once I ran a creative cloud software update.

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