Hello, I recently updated the new version v25 of media encoder and videos that usually export in a few minutes are now taking hours. I am exporting from After effects and have used the same process / settings as previous versions, so dont undertand what is going wrong. Any help would be much appreciated to resolve this. I have attached a screenshot of a current export. Thank you.
Same problem here. I noticed that when rendering in Premiere Pro, it works as usual and the GPU is utilized, but when rendering in AME, it takes 5 times longer, and the GPU isn’t being used. The settings are identical, and hardware encoding is enabled. Version 25.1, Win11, i-5 12400F, 32Gb RAM, Geforce 3060
To solve the problem, I moved Lumetri Color from the adjustment layer to the video files. Everything started working properly right away. Apparently, the issue is related to the adjustment layer.
Can confirm AME v25.1 it pins the CPU at 100% but doesn't touch the GPU or th RAM, when using the built in renderer in Premiere I see GPU at 90-100% and Ram shooting up 70-80%. Mac M1 MAX, 32GB Ram, MacOS Sonoma. I used the app Stats to get this info in real time whilst rendering a 4k Timeline. AME is useless like this.
Please provide details so that we can look into your issues. What kind of source media, effects, and output format do you use? What are your specs (OS, CPU, GPU, memory)?
Same problem here... Since AME 25 i need 45min to render a simple story 1080x1920, H264 hardware encoding, just simple cuts, no effects.... Render time direct in premiere pro : less than 1 min
I've also experienced similar long render times recently (on AME 25.1). A 2 hour Premiere Pro sequence (no effects, just simple cuts and some cross dissolves) was taking 50 hours to render...fortunately I had the time to wait, so I just let it finish. Just now I was rendering a 45 min video that had an estimated 10 hour render time in AME, but then I had a brief power cut that interrupted everything, so I had to start over, and now the same video is now estimated at 1 hour. It's almost as if the computer reboot freed up some memory or something.
Bro' just render directly from premiere pro, u will save a lot of time, untill they don't accept that the AME 25 is full bugged, i stopped using it... Doing all my renders from the premiere export menu, it saves me hours and hours !
Does anyone have any useful updates on this issue?
I've had the same problem with AME 25. I even did a clean Mac OS install over the holidays and was surprised to find that AME was still taking many times longer to render than straight out of Premiere.
Just stop use AME 25 and render directly from Premiere or AE.
You can still downgrade to AME 24 that is working great. These are the only 2 solutions as adobe still not accept that there is a big problem with AME 25...
We did not observe any performance degradations between 24.x and 25.x. We still do not have a solid repro for the issues you describe. We will keep investigating.
Some users were mentioning no/low GPU usage. Can you please verify if direct transcodes in AME also do not use GPU in your setup? This verification is to rule out any DynamicLink related issues.
I identified the cause of the degradation issue in my workflow, but the only solution so far is a workaround. I use adjustment layers to apply color correction with FilmConvert and Lumetri. In the 2025 version, rendering degrades when these effects are applied via adjustment layers. However, if I remove the adjustment layers and apply the exact same effects directly to each clip, rendering performance returns to normal. This is strange because I've been using these color plugins with adjustment layers for years without issues, but performance has dropped significantly in version 25.x.
I've tested on a new, clean project and can reproduce the error with a simple Lumetri effect on an adjustment layer.
Tested with different effects on adjustment layer - seems only to be a Lumetri effect that slows down AME (normal encoding speed straight out of Premiere).
Hi, I also have the same issue with AME 2025, my workflow invloves many (normally 6-10) instances of Lumetri on an adjustment layer as well. Rendering from PP works fine but I need to queue many renders regularly. The issue started when I updated from 24 to 25. The render in AME starts off fairly fast but then 30-60 seconds it slows down. It actually slows down during a title sequence just BEFORE the lumetri adjustment layer begins. What should be a 30-40 min render starts to show times like 6 hours. This is really messing with my workflow as PP is obviously locked while rendering
Yep. Loading the project in AME 25 Beta now and not having the issue anymore, however I cannot send the sequences directly from PP until the update makes it to release
I just wanted to chime in here. I'm having the same problem. Has anyone reverted back to 2024 and had better results?
I have not tried because I work with Productions and it converted everyting to 2025. I still have the original directory with 2025 productions projucts but we will loose the last 3 months because we cant convert backward?
Another thing I noticed is we are having this problem with Media Encoder. If we render in Pr it seems to be faster?
I haven't as my projects are in 25 (pretty sure they won't open in 24). Can you not have both 24 and 25 installed when using Productions? I am not familar with it
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