Slow Rendering - Macbook Pro M1 Max Chip

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December 10, 2021
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I am new to really the whole creative world. I bought the best Mac and undertstand very basic concepts with Adobe Premiere Pro. I am watching a course on how to use Premeire to its full potential but when I render a chip for smooth playback, it takes over a minute. Then when it is finally done, if I make one change or even delete the edit I made it goes back to playing back slow. Any suggestions or an update or honestly I am not sure just kinda frustrating.

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Conrad_C

Community Expert

In general, an M1 Max should perform better than many computers, and faster than most laptops. I have an M1 Pro, and it’s more than good enough for my needs.

Do you mean rendering in the middle of editing (Sequence > Render Effects In to Out, or pressing the Return key), or render after you’re done editing (File > Export > Media)? Or do you mean another type of rendering?

When you are done editing, whether a minute is a short time or a long time depends on a lot of things.

How many minutes is the sequence in the Timeline?
Do you know what format type you are editing? (H.264, ProRes, Blackmagic raw, drone footage…?)
What is the resolution of the video you are editing? (1080p, 4Km 8K…?)
How many tracks are stacked in the sequence, and do they use many effects?

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Ryan21931131606mAuthor

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I'll make an edit (in this case it was adding a blur keyframe), then the red bar will appear up above the sequence. From there I press the return key to render it. After it's done rendering and I don't like it and want to change it back I will have to render it again and it takes another minute. Just seems like a lot of rendering.
Appreciate it

Conrad_C

Community Expert

I “only” have an M1 Pro, but I just applied a couple of different blurs to an H.264 4K clip and the rendering bar is still yellow and plays back smoothly. My edits might be simpler but I rarely need to render while editing, especially on the M1 Pro. I just play it back with the spacebar.

To get a better answer to your question, we would need to hear more details about your sequence, like the questions I asked in my previous reply. For example, the render bar going red so soon might be understandable if the clip was a less well supported codec, if it was 8K, if there were multiple tracks stacked, etc. But right now we have not heard enough about your sequence to identify a reason why it’s red and slow.

@Ryan21931131606m wrote:

I'll make an edit (in this case it was adding a blur keyframe)

Which blur effect was it? Are other effects already applied to the same clip?

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