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OBDDESIGN
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November 7, 2024
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Media Encoder Extrememly slow to render since new update v25

  • November 7, 2024
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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.

    Correct answer BCSFF

    Are you using mp4 in and mp4 out?


    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

    30 replies

    moonmonkey2012
    moonmonkey2012
    New Participant
    November 18, 2025

    I have a very weird experience with Media encoder as of the 2024-25 updates.

    The first render exports at a decent time in the queue, but each subsequent render that follows progressively gets longer.

     

    I did a test rendering the same video multiple times in the media encoder queue. The first render for a 25min video was about 34mins. The same video directly after that rendered in about an hour 15mins and render after that 2+

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    Strillogy
    Participating Frequently
    November 19, 2025

    Same here. I had to transcode drone footage, the first few (all similar lengths) took 2-5 mins, and then the rest slowed down until after 8 hrs now, they aren’t done. The same length from earlier that should have been 2-5 mins are now 45-65 minutes.

    Frederic Bussiere
    Frederic Bussiere
    New Participant
    June 23, 2025

    on my side it was "Resolume DXV" plugin that was slowing down the whole thing.

    found in C:\Program Files\Adobe\Common\Plug-ins\7.0\MediaCore\Continuum Plug-ins

      EckiAME
      Community Manager
      EckiAMECommunity Manager
      Community Manager
      June 26, 2025

      Thanks for letting us know.

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      Joseph245210059knh
      Participating Frequently
      May 11, 2025

      Just wanted to contribute that I'm experiencing the same issue.  I upgraded PP to 25.2.3 and AME took unexpectedly long to process a 1 hour video on my machine...over 24 hours.  Rolled PP back to 25.1 and everything ran as expected.  AME version is 25.2.  No other settings changed between attempts.

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      Tripecac2
      Inspiring
      May 11, 2025

      When you rolled PP back to 25.1 did you roll back AME as well?  Or did its version remain unchanged (25.2)?

       

      In other words, does the PP version determine whether AME is slow or not?  (rather than the AME version)?

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      Liken7466
      Participating Frequently
      May 11, 2025

      No, he didn't. He only changed the versions of the PP.

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      jeremy_3702
      New Participant
      April 2, 2025

      Same issue. 25.1 was working fine yesterday. 25.2 is extremely slow and I get a notification that it's using too much CPU to have proper playback in Premiere. 

      Terrible update.

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      BCSFF
      Participating Frequently
      April 24, 2025

      Have you tried PP 25.2.3 yet?  I'm still on 25.1, just realized I missed some updates. Man it would be AMAZING to get this issue resolved... 

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      Wayne G52
      Known Participant
      April 25, 2025

      Everything seems to be working with this latest release. I have the Lumetri layers added to my timeline exported a 1hr 30mins project out to Media Encoder and completed in 1hr 30mins. I also have Boris FX plugins added to some of the clips, which can slow down rendering.

      So all good this end at last! 😉

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      Strillogy
      Participating Frequently
      March 29, 2025

      I wanted to add to this thread that both my machines have the same problem. M4 pro iMac (maxed out) and the M4 max MacBook Pro. It doesn't matter whether I use media that's ProRes 422, CRAW, h264, etc. whenever I export (usually to h264, mp4, 35MB, hardware encoding) render times are hours on fairly simple edits that would normally take 10-15 mins tops with previous versions of premiere/ame (they all have lumetri adjustment layers). 

      On top of all this, adobe constantly flags my app/sends emails/forces password resets because they now say I can't use the software on two computers unless I log out of creative cloud entirely before moving to my laptop from a desktop or vice versa. 

      Within one year adobe has massively cut my productivity down because of the constant issues. 

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        Strillogy
        Participating Frequently
        March 29, 2025

        *that should say Mac mini not iMac 

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        MarkCambria
        New Participant
        March 14, 2025

        Hello everyone, I seem to have fixed the issue. Not really sure why this worked maybe a smarter person can explain. When exporting to h264, I changed the target bitrate from the default 10, to around 20 mbps. Its also set at hardware encoding, VBR 1pass. File is twice the size but the export time is just as fast as ME 2024. 

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        BCSFF
        Participating Frequently
        March 22, 2025

        Interesting! I will have to try this if Adobe can't get us another update soon. @EckiAME Any news?

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        MarkCambria
        New Participant
        March 14, 2025

        Encoder taking 2-3x longer to export. What took 4min in 2024 now takes 12min. Going back to 2024 workflow. 

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        BedStudio
        New Participant
        March 11, 2025

        I'm still having this issue - Renders that should take less than a minute are dragging over 45min. Torture.

         

        What is going on Adobe I'm having so many random issues with lots of your products. Please get some skilled members back on your team.

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        tscott93
        Participating Frequently
        March 10, 2025

        By the way, the beta of AME made things worse. Render time jumped from 30 mins in v25.1 to 2 hours in beta.

        Also, why has this been marked as answered?? Now it doesn't show up in the post list...

        - Tyler S.
          FabioBarros
          FabioBarros
          New Participant
          March 10, 2025

          I had a similar issue but in Premiere Pro, was working on a project in PP 2024 and I just updated to 2025 now. I had this problem exporting 4K HEVC, almost endless render times... fixed it by copying the all the content of my timeline to a new sequence in a new project created in PP 2025.

          I'm assuming the problem is somewhere in the automatic conversion Premiere Pro does when updating project files to 2025. Maybe it will work for AE?

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          tscott93
          Participating Frequently
          March 10, 2025

          @FabioBarrosUnfortunately the project files in my case were created using AE 2025. Are you queueing to AME or exporting straight out of Premiere?

          - Tyler S.
          FabioBarros
          FabioBarros
          New Participant
          March 13, 2025

          Exporting in PP was and is working fine, I was queueing to Media Encoder because I needed to batch render several videos.

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