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Known Participant
May 17, 2023 8:06 AM UTC
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P: Max Render Quality - not functioning

Exports run as normal with Max Render Quality selected, but it has no decernable affect on quality of output. Primary use case is exporting UHD sequences at HD. The sequences contain some assets that are upscaled in motion settings on the timeline and then subsequently downscaled as part of the export. Previously using Max Render Quality has functioned similar to AE's continous rasterization and subsequently exports of upscaled-then-downscaled source material show no quality loss compared with the original source file. However, in the current version there is a noticable quality drop as if Max Render Quality has not been checked.

 

Premiere Pro Version 23.5.0 (Build 56)

Media Encoder Version 23.5.0 (Build 51)

 

MacOS Monterey Version 12.4

Mac Pro (2019)
Processor 3.2 GHz 16-Core Intel Xeon W
Memory 192 GB 2933 MHz DDR4
Startup Disk Macintosh HD
Graphics AMD Radeon Pro Vega Il 32 GB

 

48 replies

Inspiring
Sep 14, 2026 10:32 PM UTC

Maximum quality render is still not working as of 25.6.4 Build 5.  Anyone check this in latest version? My workaround is to render 3840 x 2160 timeline to a 3840 x 2160 file (you could even use a high bit rate H264 but prores or similar would be better), then put that into a 1080 timeline and scale to 50% manually in effect controls. Tried all of the various maximum quality (scaling) settings in sequence settings and render settings to no avail. This setting used to work. You’d think this would be a pretty important thing to fix.

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Known Participant
Oct 20, 2025 2:15 AM UTC

Just checking in to see if there is any update on this. Really starting to affect more and more everyday workflows for a few years now.

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Known Participant
Jul 16, 2025 3:56 PM UTC

FIX IT ADOBE.

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Legend
Jul 16, 2025 8:50 AM UTC

GPU acceleration can be turned off temporarily at launch. Press Shift while starting Premiere Pro, and you should see that option.

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Brice5C88Author
Known Participant
Jul 15, 2025 11:07 AM UTC

You know what's worse - in the current version the work around I was using (of disabling GPU acceleration) is no longer possible. GPU is permanently turned on it appears.

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koljae4216091
Participating Frequently
Jul 15, 2025 10:44 AM UTC

Guys, this bug is still there, even in the newest release of the 2025 version. Kind reminder: this bug started in the 2023 version two years ago!!

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koljae4216091
Participating Frequently
Apr 2, 2025 10:29 AM UTC

Same here. Still no bug fix.

This issue is around for too long now. Please find a solution for it soon, dear Adobe employees!

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Known Participant
Mar 26, 2025 7:35 PM UTC

It definately has something to do with CUDA. CPU MRQ works fine - just that renders take FOREVER.

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Known Participant
Mar 26, 2025 7:16 PM UTC

Still having this same issue. Unacceptable. Has this been fixed?

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jamieclarke
Community Manager
Community Manager
Oct 30, 2024 3:57 PM UTC

Updating Status

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