Super Slow Export Times All of a Sudden

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January 14, 2021
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I've been using Premiere Pro for the past 6 months or so to edit gaming footage that I record with OBS. Everything has been fine until a few days ago when I try to export the footage it takes a super long time.

Exporting 30 mins length of footage used to take 8 mins, now it takes an hour. Any ideas where to start trying to sort this out?

The footage is MP4 format at about 30kbps bitrate recorded with OBS Live. I've been using this footage for the past 6 months with no problems.

I also noticed that my GPU usage is much lower than usual.

Interestingly enough, when I import a video that I previously exported from Premiere Pro that has 10kbps bitrate, the problem disappears. Premiere Pro exports at the speed it used to, and the GPU usage goes back up as well.

I've read some threads from people having a similar issue, and one of the conclusions was that the person was using raw footage and they needed to run it through Encoder first. But I've been using this same footage for 6 months with no problems.

I am using the most recent version of Premiere Pro (14.8.0 Build 39).

Any ideas where to start sorting this out? Thank you!

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Judo CruiseAuthor

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Also tried resetting my preferences by holding ALT+SHIFT while Premiere loaded - that helped a little but it's still super slow and the GPU usage is way lower than usual.

Any ideas?

M

Michael Grenadier

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screen recordings are often variable frame rate which can cause problems with premiere.

use mediainfo to determine whether your source is variable or constant frame rate
https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo/Download
if it's variable use handbrake to convert to constant frame rate
https://handbrake.fr
and here's a tutorial on how to use handbrake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=34&v=xlvxgVREX-Y

Judo CruiseAuthor

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Thanks! I tried this and it was a variable frame rate, so I converted to constant frame rate. It did seem to help but the GPU usage was still super low and then it froze in the middle of exporting.

I think I'm just going to try using a different editor!

Judo CruiseAuthor

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Anyone have any ideas? Do you need more info from me?

I updated to a new NVIDIA driver right before this problem started happening. I wanted to roll back the driver but I can't because NVIDIA uninstalls the old driver before it installs the new one.

Judo CruiseAuthor

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So I did roll back the driver and the problem still persists.

Is there somewhere else I should go to ask for help? Kinda thought someone
would have replied by now.

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