Premiere Pro & Media Encoder Only Utilising 50% CPU

[PeterL1998]

Hi there,

I'm currently new to using Premiere Pro as I've recently transition from Vegas Pro for video editing so do bare with me if I have done something wrong. I'm trying to render a 4K 60fps video using the H.264 codec however when I am rendering the video I see that premiere pro or media encoder is only utilising 50% of my CPU. I was wandering if there is a way in order for me to enable premiere pro to utlise the full potential of my CPU (Ryzen 9 3900x).

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[R Neil Haugen]

What is your RAM and disc usage? It's all connected.

Neil

[Joost van der Hoeven]

Also Premiere Pro utilizes hardware acceleration when encoding to h.264, this means it tasks the GPU (generally faster for graphic processes due to that parralell power of a GPU). Check the usage of the GPU as well. 

[Guest]

It uses QuickSync hardware acceleration for H.264 encoding, not GPU acceleration. That's used for scaling, color, and GPU accelerated effects. 

[PeterL1998]

My system has 32GB of RAM and I have dedicated 10GB to it. I have the hardware rendering enabled but is only using 40-50% of CPU and around 20-30% GPU usage.

Also my first test render seemed to be producing green frames and the video was not watchable although I am sure that is a GPU issue? I'm not sure.

Here are my system specs:

Ryzen 9 3900x

32GB DDR4 RAM

1TB Samsung Evo 850 SSD

RTX 2070 Super FE

[RjL190365]

You need to dedicate more RAM to Premiere. 10 GB of RAM isn't going to cut it.

Also, while 32 GB is adequate for most uses, with a 12-core CPU and Premiere Pro I strongly recommend that you upgrade your system to 64 GB of RAM.