Image in video causes increased export time.

[Bloodraven]

First off, I apologize if this is not the correct forum for help.

I have been having an issue with a template I created. A JPG that I must use is causing the export times to be 2 hours long compared to 30 minutes without. The render bar turns red the moment I put the image in place and taking 2 hours for 1 project is pretty unacceptable for me when it shouldn't. I don't use any 3rd party software for this, all of this is pure Premiere. Please let me know what other details you may require.

Specs:

AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor

Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

32G Ram

Windows 10 Home

Premiere Version 24.5

[Bruce Bullis]

Confirming: Removing one .jpg from your sequence, decreases the render time by a factor of 4?

Can you send us the the 'heavy' .jpg?