Premiere CC extremely slow on export

My issue was hyperthreading. My desktop is an i5 3570k but doesnt have hyperthreading. It was using 90%+ cpu usage almost nonstop while encoding. I have 2 core i7 laptops that were only using 19% CPU and taking 41 hours to render the same video my desktop was doing in 9 hours. I could not disable hyperthreading in the bios on the laptops. I have 2 friends that have 6 core intel CPUs with hyperthreading. I tried rendering on their desktops and had the same issue with cpu usage being below 20%. I then disabled hyperthreading and got the cpu usage to 80%+ nonstop. I was using Premiere Pro CC 2015 to do all of these tests. Before figuring out the issue I tried using CC 2017 as well as adobe media encoder and I still had the 19% cpu usage issue. Disabling hyperthreading fixed the problem for me.

Hi everyone,

I've noticed that exporting a sequence that uses the "Lens distortion" effect takes a long long time. I don't know why, but in this case PPro CC uses neither CPU, GPU, RAM and disk bitrate at full capacity. Same sequence without this effect is exported in a normal time and uses full capacity of at least one of the components of my PC.

So, unfortunately I'm forced to export my GoPro videos without removing the fisheye effect

I hope it can help you.

And thank you Adobe to solve this problem

PS. Please excuse my poor english

If all else is failing you, I saw vast improvement after I closed the adobe cloud licensing app.

Hi everyone,

Rig: Custom

Intel Xeon E5-1650 v2 @ 3.5Ghz
16 GB Ram

NVidia Quadro K4000

2 - 256GB SSD  - one for OS/Programs - other for files

I'm trying to export a video that is 7 min long. 1280x720, 23.976fps, Progressive, VBR 1Pass, Target at ONLY 0.65 Mbps, AAC audio, 128kbps, 44kHz, Mono.

I'm at 33% after an hour.  This is the 6th time I've rendered using different methods (disabling Mercury, using software only, and different combinations of the sort.  Would my company have done better to buy me a cheep little Surface Pro instead of the overpriced rig I am currently using?  Any suggestions on what may make this faster?

Pretty disappointed with Adobe at the moment.

What I have:

-I have a brand new MacPro Trash Can, completely maxed out everything.

64GB ram | 2.7GHz 12 core Xeon E5 | OSX 10.9.3.

-You should know I have a new MacBookPro as well, and i am not experiencing this issue on that laptop.

My Problem:

-Rendering out of Premiere CC is taking for ever just as everyone has said.

-I changed the File>Project Settings>General Tab>Renderer - to software only, however that sped nothing up.

-1 Pass encodes also sped nothing up.

-I am linking project files with After Effects, but I do not think that is the issue.

My Solution:

For now I am jumping to Adobe Media encoder to make my MP4's, this looks like it is working faster, and is gives me a better view of where the file is in the rendering process.

* Adobe needs to get on this issue right now, if they have not already figured it out.

It is an extremely serious professional workflow issue.*

Like @Roni2013 said, change the renderer in the Project settings from GPU Acceleration to Software only.

I'm running a MPB 2011 with i7 and 12gb of ram and this made all the deffrence in the world with my export speeds. it went from taking years to taking mins.

From what I've read the GPU (mine is the AMD Radeon HD 6750M) is not fully supported, thus it's not able to take advantage of the GPU when exporting.

Thanks @Roni2013

Sorry to revive this, but i've read this and pretty much every other linked article and haven't found anything that helps.

My gear:
Blackmagic cinema cameras with Hyperdeck and Atem Switcher shooting ProRes at 29.97fps
Mac Mini, 4GB ram, 2.6gHz quad core i7 running Adobe premiere CC

My Project (church service):

Two clips, one ~6:00 (intro video), one ~45:00 (main sermon), audio imported seprately.

What I've been trying:

1: Format: H.264

Preset: Vimeo HD 1080p 29.97fps

Not using max render quality, not using previews, not using frame blending, not importing into project.

Directly exporting from Premiere.
No presets changed, no filters added.

Export time: 1:05:45

2: Format: Quicktime

Preset: HD 1080i 29.97 H.264

Not using max render quality, not using previews, not using frame blending, not importing into project.

Directly exporting from Premiere.
No presets changed, no filters added.

Export time: 1:30:10

Maybe my machine is just not enough, but it indicates the main stress is on the cpu as only about 25% of RAM is being used by any Premiere related processes during export, while 500-700% of cpu is being juiced.

Bottom line, we need this to happen faster, and for the simplicity of what we're doing (splicing a still graphic on the front of an intro video, which is spliced onto the front of the sermon) the time its taking seems kinda crazy to me. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

P.S.

Went to disable GPU rendering, but the only option I have is Software rendering so that's not the issue (I assume).

Do you have titles in your sequence?  I noticed when I create a new sequence, drop a video file in and DON'T add any titles, it encodes fast.  When I add titles, it takes about 2 times the actual length of the clip to render.  CS6 did not have this problem.

Well - as for my original problem -

I’ve made some testing and for now had no real progress as far as normal exporting.

1 .The mercury GPU is working on all testing

1. 2. For a 75 minutes of Panasonic MTS with very basic transitions - exporting to AVI DV PAL wide and to MPEG2-DVD Pal - more the 3 hours

1. 3. Tried same footage with maximum render quality - same results.

1. 4. Tried with use previews - same results.  (The project has the yellow line; I did not try to render into green)

1. 5. In some cases, when trying to export to other formats, I received “error compiling movie” this seems to be related to the maximum render quality switch - I have a feeling that this has something to do with the GPU acceleration.

Now as I write this message – I am trying something new:

I marked the “match sequence settings” on the top of the export windows” this yielded a “new” exporting format name “mpeg preview” that has same frame size ,frame rate and field order as the original footage”

It worked fast and was ready in about 20 minutes or so.

Using the AME to convert this to mpeg2 DVD also was fast.

The only question – what will be the final quality when burning DVD?!

I can’t answer that now since I have a burner problem and only tomorrow I will be able to replace it and gaze on the results of this experiment.

I will, of course, update as soon as I can.

I do hope someone (adobe guys?!) will do something about solving these frustrating issue.

Yes, I am also experiencing this problem. I tried changing the Render engine between GPU acceleration and software rendering.

Very strange bug.

Everything else works great in Premiere CC versus CS 6. However, when it comes time to Render or Export, it is noticeably taking much longer. I am guessing it must be a bug, considering how much faster playback and operation seems.

I have a 1 GB ATI Radeon Card, with 17 GB of RAM, on an 8 core Mac Pro, so I really shouldn't be seeing such a slow down here.