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Softball_Junky
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March 2, 2017
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Practical advice on how to fix Adobe's horriblely slow encoder

  • March 2, 2017
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I have read many articles on Adobe's Encoder.  Not one of them addresses how to fix the slow encoder issue,  PLEASE help!  I need a real solution even if the answer is , It's broke and they aren't gonna fix it.  I need to increase the speed.  The time it takes to encode is like watching molasses travel up hill.  All knowledge would be appreciated.  Thank you all!

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    Softball_Junky
    Softball_JunkyAuthor
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    March 3, 2017

    Here are some screen shots that I took to help you all with my situation

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    Meg The Dog
    Inspiring
    March 3, 2017

    One big problem is shown in your first screen shot, your  edited sequence is HD 1920 x 1080 and you are exporting a UHD 3840 x 2160 file:

    This is making ME upscale every frame.

    Are you confident your original source material is 4K footage?

    MtD

    Softball_Junky
    Softball_JunkyAuthor
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    March 3, 2017

    Yes I have a sony pxw x70 with 4k shooting in 4k

    Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone

    Softball_Junky
    Softball_JunkyAuthor
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    March 3, 2017

    Alright all:  I have a Dell T1500 I5 with 16 ram and a NVidia K 4200.  I use external hard drives for the storage as each video I upload is in 4k to Youtibe and each file is 2 gig.  The file size must remain the same because of its content.

    R Neil Haugen
    R Neil Haugen
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    March 3, 2017

    The CPU is a large part of the de-encoding/encoding process, unless you are changing frame-size, at which point the GPU is heavily used.

    You've got a two-core i5 as your CPU? Running 4k media? With storage on external drives?

    No wonder it's slow. What's the connection for those external drives?

    Neil

    Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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    excited_Genie16B8
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    March 3, 2017

    I don't believe there is any problem with Adobe's software on this front.

    You want faster encodes, you need faster hardware.

    Softball_Junky
    Softball_JunkyAuthor
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    March 3, 2017

    See my reply below

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    Meg The Dog
    Inspiring
    March 3, 2017

    When you set up your export, please take a screen shot of the Export Settings summary, like this example, and post it here:

    Exactly what your are asking Media Encoder to do will certainly effect the time it takes to do it.

    If time is of the essence to get your edit posted on line, it might make sense to consider not working in 4K.

    MtD

    John T Smith
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    John T SmithCommunity Expert
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    March 3, 2017

    An example of the kind of information Neil is asking for (hardware)

    The computer I built in July 2014 (reply #6 for my hardware list) in https://forums.adobe.com/message/6536849 was very fast when I built it, and is still fast for what **I** do... meaning the video I edit and what I **do** to that video (effects, etc)

    You might as well say "my truck is slow" without telling anything about your truck OR what you are hauling in the back

      R Neil Haugen
      R Neil Haugen
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      March 3, 2017

      I can't give you any help whatever because you haven't given us any information that would be need to actually have an intelligent comment.

      There can be a ton of different things that are involved, and without knowing your system in extensive details, your media, the effects used, all that sort of thing ... I might as well throw darts blindfolded after being spun around a few times.

      So ... OS/CPU/RAM/GPU/vRAM;

      - the number and type of all drives/storage media attached to your computer, their connections to the motherboard, and how you have your projects and media dispersed around those drives on your computer;

      - the type of media, common frame-sizes/rates, produced by what (cameras, phones, screen-capture);

      - the types of effects you typically use;

      - any third-party plugins or effects you have that have "touched" your sequences;

      - the length of your typical sequences, how many video/audio tracks you're running, that sort of thing.

      A screen grab of a sequence on the timeline, one of your sequence settings dialog box, maybe one of a typical export settings dialog box, would also be of great assistance.

      Neil

      Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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