Without knowing what is going on in your comp and what the settings are it's impossible to give you any meaningful advice. I'm guessing that this is a fairly long composition. I see that you are rendering 60fps. Most of the time, this a waste of bandwidth and file size. 30 or 29.97 fps is just fine for almost all projects. You need a specific reason to be using 60 fps.
I'm also guessing that you are using After Effects as a video editing app. It is not one. Never was. AE is designed to create shots that you edit in an NLE like Premiere Pro. About 90% of my comps are under seven seconds and one shot. More than 90% of my movies are more than 10 minutes long with the average time between shots running about four to five seconds. A typical film that I cut will visual effects or animations on about 15 or 20 percent of the shots. Some films have effects or animations on more than 90% of the shots, but I still limit my AE comps to one-shot or a short sequence that is no longer than a sentence or a phrase.
Any comp that takes longer than a few seconds a frame to render is always rendered to a suitable DI (digital intermediate) using a visually lossless production format. I never use H.264 MP4 files as DI's. Never. All MPEG compression (h.264 is the standard for delivery) is lossy and causes compression artifacts the very next time it is rendered.
Tell us about your project, describe the workflow, and give us some system and OS specs. Maybe we can help. I think the first thing you should do is break your comp up into shorter pre-comps and render those one at a time using the Render Queue, then edit the final product in Premiere Pro and render your H.264 deliverable from there. PPro always renders much faster than After Effects.
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