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1. Re: Premiere Pro CC taking FOREVER to export
Kevin-Monahan Mar 18, 2014 4:50 PM (in response to minutephysics)minutephysics wrote:
I'm on a mac (2013 imac and macbook pro, 24GB/16GB ram, etc) and Premiere Pro used to export just fine (~10 minutes for 3 minute 1080p video to h.264, everything pre-rendered) and now on both of my machines it seems like PP isn't able to use the rendered files EVEN when I select "use previews" because it takes 30-40 minutes to export now.
Hi minutephysics,
What is the codec for your rendered previews? What is your output codec? Are they the same?
minutephysics wrote:
As an aside, I have to render essentially every second of my timeline due to the nature of the footage & effects I'm using - my footage is image sequences of jpgs that are a weird size, the timeline is 1920x1080 though. Media Encoder isn't any faster, either. It doesn't matter whether I use software or CUDA accelerated export, either. They are all slow.
I'm getting no direct indication that there's an error - just that PP takes far too long to export. Unacceptably long. Rendering times are fine, so there's not a problem with my system there.
Which effects are you using? Any effects with a lot of overhead like Neat? Can you post a screenshot of your export settings dialog box?
Thanks,
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2. Re: Premiere Pro CC taking FOREVER to export
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minutephysics Mar 18, 2014 5:14 PM (in response to minutephysics)And for what it's worth, on those settings it took 25 minutes to export that exact 2 and a half minute video.
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4. Re: Premiere Pro CC taking FOREVER to export
Kevin-Monahan Mar 19, 2014 1:28 PM (in response to minutephysics)Sorry MP, I'm not seeing those screenshots.
Kevin
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5. Re: Premiere Pro CC taking FOREVER to export
minutephysics Mar 21, 2014 9:29 AM (in response to Kevin-Monahan) -
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minutephysics Mar 19, 2014 6:05 PM (in response to minutephysics)ps I have taken a screenshot of the uploaded screenshots to prove they were uploaded but I don't know how to make sure you'll see it
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7. Re: Premiere Pro CC taking FOREVER to export
Kevin-Monahan Mar 19, 2014 6:10 PM (in response to minutephysics)What happens if you uncheck "Use Previews?"
How big are these JPEGS in terms of frame size?
Thanks,
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8. Re: Premiere Pro CC taking FOREVER to export
minutephysics Mar 19, 2014 6:14 PM (in response to Kevin-Monahan)Unchecking "use previews" is also very slow, which is what I'd expect based on the amount of rendering required.
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9. Re: Premiere Pro CC taking FOREVER to export
Kevin-Monahan Mar 20, 2014 9:31 AM (in response to minutephysics)OK. Can you get me the frame size of those JPEGs?
Thanks,
Kevin
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10. Re: Premiere Pro CC taking FOREVER to export
minutephysics Mar 20, 2014 10:04 AM (in response to Kevin-Monahan)Kevin,
I'm not sure exactly what you mean - if you're talking about the screenshots (though I have no idea how that could be relevant), you should just be able to look at their dimensions. The first one is 610x745, the second is 1642x1286. That's the image size - the windows inside the images are slightly smaller, given that there are drop shadows.
If you're asking about the frame size of the jpgs I'm using in my videos, they are 2592x1728 - they're from a Canon T3i, small size, basic/low quality jpg compression.
But I've never had this problem until quite recently, and I've been making videos using this method for over two years.
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11. Re: Premiere Pro CC taking FOREVER to export
Kevin-Monahan Mar 20, 2014 10:29 AM (in response to minutephysics)minutephysics wrote:
If you're asking about the frame size of the jpgs I'm using in my videos, they are 2592x1728 - they're from a Canon T3i, small size, basic/low quality jpg compression.
But I've never had this problem until quite recently, and I've been making videos using this method for over two years.
Hi Henry,
Yes, this is what I was asking about. I see your screenshots now and nothing seems amiss. Your JPEGs also seem OK. Have you done anything to your computer lately, such as, updating your OS, Premiere Pro, or the Creative Cloud application?
Thanks,
Kevin
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12. Re: Premiere Pro CC taking FOREVER to export
Jim Curtis Mar 21, 2014 8:27 AM (in response to minutephysics)This is a possibility: You have a or some corrupted footage items in your timeline. Try exporting between in and out the first half of your sequence. Then, export the second half. If there's a substantial difference in export times, the slow export likely contains your problem footage. Keep reducing the export ranges until you isolate the culprit. Then, replace it or transcode to another codec.
I've also seen corruption in my Preview files, and media caches. When I have a "was working fine, but not any more" situation, I do a deep clean. Trash Pr prefs, trash previews, trash caches. And if that doesn't work, search and destroy corrupt media. Final straw: uninstall and reinstall Pr.
Since you're on Mac, you might try Digital Rebellion's Corrupt Clip Finder. I've been given hundreds of corrupt JPEGs from clients. Converting them to TIF or PNG has allowed me to finish my projects.
Good luck.
Edited to add new info.
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13. Re: Premiere Pro CC taking FOREVER to export
Wildcats Athletics Mar 21, 2014 8:17 AM (in response to minutephysics)Made the mistake of running latest update of CC and now exporting basic H264 with YouTube 720p 29.97 settings is taking almost 3x's as long. Have lots of short 3-5 minute videos to turn around today and looking at hours of wasted time. Help
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14. Re: Premiere Pro CC taking FOREVER to export
JSS1138 Mar 21, 2014 9:30 AM (in response to Wildcats Athletics)We'll need some details.
FAQ: What information should I provide when asking a question on this forum?
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Wildcats Athletics Mar 21, 2014 9:39 AM (in response to JSS1138)Macbook Pro 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 8GB memory - OSx 10.9.2
Premiere Pro CC 7.2.1 (4)
Just use CS6 as a test - same clip, same encode settings - 10 minutes vs. 50 minutes. Horrible
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16. Re: Premiere Pro CC taking FOREVER to export
minutephysics Mar 28, 2014 1:53 PM (in response to Wildcats Athletics)I'm glad someone else can corroborate this! It is incredibly frustrating and I just had a 50-minute long phone call with someone at Adobe support who repeatedly just told me that my "system didn't have enough resources" to render faster. He completely ignored me when I tried to explain that I used to have significantly faster exports!
My exports are indeed appropriately fast when working with canon dslr footage, etc, but my jpg image sequences are still miserably slow. Is there any way to rever to an earlier version of CC? Or get a fix?
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17. Re: Premiere Pro CC taking FOREVER to export
minutephysics Mar 28, 2014 2:00 PM (in response to minutephysics)ps One fact that seems quite important to my case is that I make heavy use of adjustment layers with the "posterize time" effect to force 12fps on large parts of my timeline. Posterize time doesn't seem to be supported by graphics cards which is weird because it is literally just throwing away every other frame - why on earth is it so slow? I just removed these adjustment layers and my render time shrunk to 3 minutes - this clearly seems to be a major bottleneck for rendering. Are there any other solutions to forcing 12fps for selected parts of the timeline?
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18. Re: Premiere Pro CC taking FOREVER to export
Jim Curtis Mar 28, 2014 3:01 PM (in response to minutephysics)If you're on CC, you can nest the clips you want at 12 FPS and change the frame rate to 12 fps in the Sequence Settings. In earlier versions, you'd have to create a new sequence of the same dimensions, because you can't change the frame rate after a sequence is created.
Have you tried opening your Pr Sequence in Ae, and rendering it from there? Ae doesn't have the same problems with large JPEGs that Pr has.
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19. Re: Premiere Pro CC taking FOREVER to export
MouseManTSD Mar 29, 2014 11:31 AM (in response to Kevin-Monahan)Not sure where else I should post this, but until the other day when I updated CC desktop app and Premiere CC, I was having great success on exporting.
2009 iMac 3g Intel Core 2 duo, 16gRam, OSX 10.8.5
I do mainly very simple stuff, usually education and business presentations.
From a 1080p/30/48k sequence, 4 dissolves and a slide at the beginning and end of the presentation. 1hr 9 min long.
Tried to go right to an FLV 764x432, only 600kbps and 80kbps audio, which I've done dozens of times already this year, even to a smaller screen size.
It took 7 hrs to get to 65% transcoded, then it froze.
Tried today to export from the aforementioned sequence to an h.264 mp4 file, 720p/30, 320 kbps AAC... thinking there was an issue going to flv.
It took 12 minutes to get to 1% encoded.
Also, as MinutePhysics mentioned... I'm having no issues rendering stuff in the timeline, it's very fast.
... and checking my iMac's Activity Monitor, it's indicating that while encoding, Premiere is using 192% of my CPU capability.... which I've never seen before.
Something has happened with the update, and it's really a frustrating thing!









