Premiere Pro CC 2018 Render Speed Extremely Slow

[GMBDirector]

I recently installed the latest version of Premiere Pro CC 2018 and I am experiencing extremely slow render times.  This happens on 1080p footage, 4K footage, GoPro Footage, Mov, H264.  I've troubleshot everything I could to know that it is the program itself and not a set up that I have.  This has only been happening in the last week since installing the latest version.  There are no effects or color grade or anything applied to these clips.  To render previews of a 6 minute video with proper timeline settings takes 40-60 minutes.  Add any effects to that and it is hours and hours to render out a Youtube H264.

I am running on a MacBook Pro with 16GB of RAM and have never experienced anything this slow.  I've already come to far on two projects that I have deadlines for to go back to CC2017 and re-edit them.

Please can someone help.

[Jeff Bugbee]

This setting Lee.

[leem29517194]

Hey Jeff I will get back to you in a couple hours. My render is halfway done and I don't want to restart it now because the project is due today.

Best Regards,

Lee Morgan

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[leem29517194]

Hello Jeff,

My setting says Software encoding, should it say hardware encoding ?

Lee Morgan

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[leem29517194]

When I try to change it I get this error. Please see attached.

Lee Morgan

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[Jeff Bugbee]

Yes, it should say Hardware. You did not attach an image.

Also, please stop posting your address, email, and phone number on every post.

[leem29517194]

It Does not say hardware and then gives me this error

Lee Morgan

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[leem29517194]

Are you able to jump on a quick call with me ? <removed personal info>

Best Regards,

Lee Morgan

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[Jeff Bugbee]

No I am not going to call you. Please stop posting your personal info.

Feel free to attach an image of the error though. None of your previous attempts have succeeded.

[leem29517194]

I have attached the image 2x to this email thread,

Lee Morgan

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[leem29517194]

[Jeff Bugbee]

See this post regarding Hardware Acceleration.

"Your system's hardware does not support hardware acceleration for the current settings" on export

What are your system specs? Including video card and CPU

[leem29517194]

MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2018)

2.9 GHz Intel Core i9

32 GB 2400 MHz DDR4

Radeon Pro 560X 4096 MB

Intel UHD Graphics 630 1536 MB

[leem29517194]

I have read your last response and the link you provided. And in the information you provided I found this," Unfortunately, Apple configured all of its systems with discrete GPUs to always automatically switch the GPU to the discrete one when Premiere is launched, and makes it very difficult, if not impossible, to override that behavior. And Adobe does not currently support hardware acceleration of H.264 encodes through a discrete GPU."

[leem29517194]

Is there an alternative Codec codec that I can use and still upload to Youtube without slow rendering times?

[Jeff Bugbee]

This is YouTube's recommended encoding settings: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/1722171?hl=en

Recommended upload encoding settings - YouTube Help

Unfortunately, it looks like you're going to be stuck with slower encoding times to H.264 as your GPU is not supported by Adobe.

If possible, you could work in a previous version of Premiere - 2017 might work - and you should experience faster encoding.

[leem29517194]

Well thanks for the help, at least I know now its not the settings. But MACS's GPU does not play nice with Adobe anymore. Do you think there will be an update for this issue ?

[Jeff Bugbee]

Not all Macs. Just Macs that use mobile GPUs. aka:Macbook Pros. I have a 2014 MacPro that works fine as well as a 2017 5k iMac.

[leem29517194]

I have to be mobile for work, so I need a laptop. I wonder if they can switch GPU's in my laptop ? and how much it would cost ?

[Jeff Bugbee]

I recommend installing CC2017.

[leem29517194]

I may end up doing that.

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[bsarfatty]

Hmmmm. Have been having this problem too. I just switched hardware acceleration from OpenCL to Metal and it got 100 times faster.

I know Apple has depreciated OpenCL in new OS. So.

[bsarfatty]

Still a ton slower than expected.

[JBL]

41 minutes to render a 1.5 minute video. Just an mp4 with sound. Original file is 4.9MB. No layers, no filters, no extras.

This just after the latest update.

SO thinking of changing to another video software.

Had to use another tool and close Premier.

What happened to Adobe quality?

Please don't make the usual settings suggestions. We've done all that and have notes on all the best settings.

Update. We ran the same file in HitFilm Express (FREE), and it exported to mp4 with the same YouTube settings in 2:12, and on the same computer.

So for those who constantly run into performance issues with Premier like we do and it stalls your workflow, the numbers speak for themselves.

I can see we have to keep HitFilm on hand for the numerous and regular occurrences that this happens. We can't accept this as a business and expect to meet work deadlines.

Listening Adobe?

[galinm97802843]

Trying to do a render of about 18 minutes of footage - ~6 sequences on a timeline.  All sequences are individually rendered already and the bar is yellow.  It is saying almost 2 HOURS to render footage that is already rendered.  How is this possible?  It's only 1080 video!

Computer: 8th gen i7+, M.2 NVME, 32GB, GTX 1070 w/8 GB, CC19.  Hardware rendering turned on of course.

I'm about 2 seconds from canceling my trial, returning my new computer, and downloading Hit Film or DaVinci onto a cheapo computer.  Never encountered these times on Hit Film with my old laptop with a GTX 570M and 12GB of RAM.

[Jeff Bugbee]

If you've already rendered the sequences, do you have Use Previews checked in your render dialogue?