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September 25, 2013
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HELP: Premiere Pro CC not using all CPU and RAM during rendering and export

  • September 25, 2013
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Hello,

I am using Premiere Pro CC on a Windows 7. My timeline is quite simple with two videos, one with the movie (mpeg) and the other with the subtitles (avi).

When I render the sequence in PP or export, the rendering time is way too slow and it only uses around 15-20% of the CPU and 3 GB of RAM.

My hardware config is :

- CPU : i7-4770k 3.50Ghz

- RAM : 8 GB

- Disk : 2 x 3 TB SATA (no raid)

RAM is not the bottleneck, neither the disk access.

I have tried rendering and exporting the same project on an iMac (with an i5 2.7 Ghz and 4 GB RAM and only 1 disk) and the result is 4x faster !!!

The CPU usage is close to 100% as well as RAM usage.

So how come PP uses all resources availble on an iMac and not on a Windows 7 ?

Is there any known bug or software bottleneck on Windows 7 ?

My machine is brand new and nothing much installed besides Adobe products.

Any help is very much appreciated.

Thanks,

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21 replies

Legend
September 25, 2013

If export for the exact same project with the exact same settings takes less time on one machine than another, it's most likely because of the capabilities of that machine as a whole.  CPU and RAM are just part of the picture.

whannyAuthor
New Participant
September 25, 2013

Thanks for taking the time to respond.

But I don't understand why my Windows PC that has better hardware (CPU, RAM and disks) has slower encoding speed than my Mac.

Also, I installed CS4 on the same machine and tested with the same project and the export encoding took only 15 minutes compared to 2 hours with CC !

I therefore doubt that it is simply a hardware issue here.

For some reasons CC is not able to encode as fast as CS4...

Legend
September 26, 2013

Check the settings.  Is Max Render Quality checked?  That can drastically slow things down.