Question
Premiere exporting audio at absurdly slow speeds
My Adobe Premiere has been acting out the past few weeks and has my whole office at a loss. I cut a lot of interviews, and part of my editing process usually involves exporting out a raw .wav file of the full interview audio for a heavier treatment in Audition. In the past this would take a pretty normal amount of time, anywhere from 10 seconds to a minute, for interviews ranging from 5 minutes to a couple of hours. For the past few weeks, exporting audio files has taken at least 30 minutes to several hour, even for shorter interviews. These symptoms also seem to be paired with noticeably slower playback in Premiere as well.
Here’s all the info I can come up with that helps specify the situation:
- I’ve tried this in Premiere cc17, cc18, and cc19 with the same results in each.
- This problem seems to apply to any type of audio file--wav, mp3, or aiff.
- I have tried pushing the exports through Media Encoder with similar results.
- For some reason, raw interviews specifically seem to give Premiere particular trouble. I exported a short video this morning which was comprised of mostly B-Roll and music, and Premiere did fine.
- The export time is absurdly long, usually much longer than the runtime of the interview itself. I’m trying to export audio from a 19 minute interview right now and it is taking well over 30 minutes.
- The onset of these symptoms seems to have been sudden, not gradual, and they do not appear to be worsening for now.
- Usually I am editing interviews which were shot on a Canon C300 and a C200 or C100, if that makes any difference.
We have tried everything we can think of, from clearing the cache and exporting at different settings, to a completely fresh install of my entire hard drive. Nothing seems to be making a significant difference. Has anyone else encountered this and have they found any solutions?
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