Hello.
I am experiencing very slow rendering times when exporting an AfterFX project via Adobe Media Encoder.
The project duration is quite long at 20-30 minutes, the first 15 - 30 seconds are quite effect intensive but then loop repeatedly for the remainder of the duration. During the first 15-30 seconds of effects the CPU goes closer to 100% (around 70-90%) but after that trickels down to barely 50%. GPU sporadically spikes to about 40% but mostly stays at very low utilization anywhere from 10 - 25%. Memory is stable at arund 42-45%. I do not use aftereffects often but use premiere pro a lot more. I notice rendering premiere pro projects is infinitely faster and takes a fraction of the time AfterFX projects take. I'm wondering why AME refuses to utilize the full power of my machine to speed up these renders. A 30 minute export takes over 3 hours. I am aware I can just render the first 2 minute long section and then loop stitch together a loop in Premiere Pro and render that and it would probably be much faster, however I'm more worried about AfterFX behaviour. That would be a less than ideal workflow. Specs are below. I feel like this system should be rendering a project like this much faster. Rendering directly in AfterFX is even longer at around 5 hours which is absurd. I am encoding 4k 60fps h264 at 12mbps CBR (this is what the AV company requested to be played on LED event screens). Important to note Hradware encoding is enabled in the encoding window of Media Encoder however Software Encoding is selected in the Encoding settings in the Export settings window with no option of switching to Hardware, met with the attached error when I attempt to switch the drop down menu. I did some research about this and came to the conclusion that the 14900k doesn't have QuickSync. However a lot of people have said this setting should not account for such a dramatic performance drop off. Any and all insight would be greatly appreciated.
CPU: Intel 14900k
Memory: 128gb @ 5400mhz (112gb reserved for Adobe)
GPU: Asus ProArt 4070Ti 12gb Vram
Motherboard: Asus ProArt Z790-Creator
Scratchdisk: Samsung 990 Pro 4TB
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