Sudden Poor Performance of PC

Report · Mar 01, 2019

I typically pride myself on understanding technology and how things work, or if they dont work, how to fix them. But boy oh boy, am I confused now.

So here is my desktop:

Gigabyte Gaming 3 B350M

Ryzen 1700

32 Gb Trident Z Ram

EVGA 1080ti

Not a bad PC at all. The Ryzen 1700 is getting a little old but for what I do, I works fine. Over the past few months, I've been editing off of my laptop. It's a HP Omen with a 8750H, 1070 Max-Q and 16gb of ram. So while it's just a laptop, it's been a champ at eating through DNxHR footage at 4k 60fps. This is no easy task. I decided though to edit a project on my desktop. I did some editing and noticed it was slow, but maybe it was because I was also browsing the internet. So once I finished my task, I go to render a 12min, 4k timeline. Normally I expect on my desktop a 20-30 min render. I look, "4 hours, 43 minutes". I let it sit for 10 minutes, seeing if it was just a buggy frame that threw off the estimate but nope, it was now at 5 hours. I tried 3 more times and all of them said 5 hours.

So I decided to see what my laptop said about the render. It rendered it in 37 minutes. How does my $1500 laptop, beat out my desktop. My desktop used to edit footage no problem but now, it cries at even the lightest color grade.

Ive tried everything I know to do. I thought about reoverclocking my Ryzen and ram to 3.9 and 2933mhz because it used to run stable there but I updated the bios and didnt feel like redoing the overclock. But I dont understand why my performance is slow low.

I have tried everything. Across the board, my PC can barely handle the files that my laptop can chew through. Whats the deal?

Report · Mar 01, 2019

Hi Cross Aerial Photography,

Sorry for the trouble. Keeping the performance in place with a combination of project complexity and system hardware can be challenging sometimes. I understand your point where you mentioned that a desktop with high-end specs should deliver better performance. Here are a few things I'd like to know:

Which version of Premiere Pro are you using?
Have you tested any previous version? You can try a new project as well.

Also, have a look at this article: FAQ: How do I speed up rendering, exporting, or encoding?

Let us know if the article helps or if anything brings any change. We're here to help.

Thanks,

Shivangi

Report · Mar 03, 2019

This is using Premiere Pro 2019, 2018 still has the same issue. It doesnt matter what I do, the overall performance on any project is slow.