Premiere Pro - 4K render takes too much time.

[Tbruzzoni]

Hey community, i need your help with this because i don't know what to do.
Last week i start a new job and they use to edit a lot of 4k videos (up to 2 or 3 minutes) with color correction and a bunch of mogrt. My problen is that the render take toooo long for export and i have a really god pc set up.

For a 4k video of 2 minutes it takes like 40 or 50 minutes for export and i think it's crazy.

Something to add, they gave me the settings for the sequences and to export these videos, i leave them in the screenshot section.

PC

-Ryzen 9 5900X

-RX 6700XT

-16GB RAM 

[Ann Bens]

Sotfware encoding will take some time.

Turn off max render, that will reduce some of the export time.

[Byron5C99]

Hey,

Looks like you haven't enabled hardware encoding (second screen shot)? You won't be making use of your PC specs without it. I would try switching from software to hardware encoding and see if that speeds up your export times.

[RjL190365]

The third screenshot is your giveaway:

No GPU in Windows supports 2-pass VBR hardware encoding at all. Selecting 2-pass VBR will force software-only encoding no matter which hardware or software you're using in any Windows PC. Only 1-pass VBR is supported.

And this is due to the restrictions set forth by the GPU makers themselves. Neither Microsoft nor Adobe has anything to do with this restriction.

[Tbruzzoni]

So from what I understand I would have to use Software encoding for 2-pass VBR exports?

[RjL190365]

Yes.

Even if you were to use DaVinci Resolve (which theoretically permitted you to select hardware encoding with VBR 2-pass), the encoder would have automatically become slammed into the software-only encoding mode with absolutely no warning whatsoever.

Furthermore, Adobe will warn you with an error message if you try to select hardware encoding with VBR 2-pass: "Your system's hardware does not support hardware acceleration for the current settings.". At least that's better (more forthright) than DaVinci Resolve's sneaky software-only default depreciation method.

And the choice of an AMD GPU is not as good as other GPUs for H.264 or HEVC exports since AMD currently supports only the 4:2:0 color space for both decoding and encoding. Both Intel and Nvidia support 4:2:2 and/or 4:4:4 for hardware encoding.