ADOBE update to Media Encoder and After Effects Making my Render times insane

[jurozone]

The lastest update has completely haulted my workflow.

AME was estimated to take 2 hours to render a 5 second HD MOV from AE.

The same clip has now taking over 40mins to render straight out of AE. 

For reference; the clip features a looping PNG sequence of animated text, with a drop shadow effect.

And one image with a non animated grain effect added, that eases into a scale up.

Clips of similar size and complexitiy took less than a minute to render before the upgrade. 

Furthermore when I go to stop or pause my queue in AME it crashes the whole program. 

[Boonafide]

I am experiencing a similar issue...

I have a podcast file (.WAV) file that is about 1.5 GB in size. I uploaded to a background in AE with 1 wavelength animation and my project has been encoding for 15 hours right now with 57 hours to go. Can someone please help me explain what exactly I am doing wrong? Worked like a charm with standard .mp4 files.

I've chatted with support, cleared cache, reinstalled the program and still the same issue persists. I even went and literally upgraded my ENTIRE system to a 2080ti, 10th gen i7, new motherboard and 64GB of DDR4 RAM. 

PLEASE HELP, this should NOT take this long.