Media Encoder CC 2017 (11) Very Slow

[RyanShepard]

The latest version of Media Encoder seems to be very slow to render even short videos. A 15 minute video rendering to an MPEG DVD is taking more than an hour. I've tested with multiple projects, some with advanced effects and others real simple and the results always seem to be consistent: They take too long to render. The previous version would render a video this short in 20-30 minutes using the same codec settings, so it has to be an issue specifically with the latest version.

I have tried clearing the media cache which hasn't helped.

Any help or suggestions would be great!

AME v. 11.0.2.53

OSX 10.12.4

iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2014)

4 GHz Intel Core i7

32 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

AMD Radeon R9 M295X 4096 MB

[SJW29]

Same problem. Very slow.

[ninar53346527]

Says this question has been answered but if that's the only solution to uncheck the "Import sequences natively"
then that's hardly a solution because not everyones AME has that option so is there another solution or is that it? I'm just trying to render simple 50 second videos and it takes like 20 minutes each time, it's ridiculous.

Is there no other solution to this or will there be an update to AME that Adobe plans to make?

[Ianinferno50]

Usually if you use many effects, files or compositions, it slows down the encoding time. This happened to me before. Try lowering you fps or bit rate. Just clean up your composition and it will render faster. Currently I am encoding an audio spectrum for a friend, and it is taking 23 hours to render and I have seen his work, it is pretty messy.