Suddenly media encoder doubled rendering times

Report · Oct 17, 2024

Hello,

suddenly, during this month, we've found Media Encoder that doubled rendering times.

Same video, same timeline... before summer we've completed rendering in halt time. The only difference that I can see is the GPU: actually not working at 100% (variable from ~30/60%), but before summer we can always see 100% constantly. There was released some updates that has modified something in Media Encoder?

My PC:

HP Z2 Mini G9 Mini PC Workstation i7-13700 2.1GHz RAM 32GB-SSD 1TB NVMe TLC + NVIDIA Quadro T400 4GB + Adobe Media Encoder v.25.0 build 54

Thanks!

Report · Oct 31, 2024

There isn't enough information here to really tell what's going on, but no, nothing changed about AME that would decrease your GPU usage. CPU and GPU usage is going to vary depending on which frames are being encoded at the exact moment. Have you tried exporting directly from After Effects or Premiere (wherever your source project is) to see if you get a similar experience as with AME? If you find the progress is stopping at roughly the same spot (maybe it's always 53%) then there's likely a problem in your timeline at that portion. Maybe you have some corrupted frames or cache files. When this happens to me in Premiere, often the answer is as simple as removing an effect and reapplying it or purging Media Cache. Without knowing more information it's hard to say, though.