• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Excruciatingly Long Render Times w PPro CS6

  Posted by Gates Bradley on July 17, 2012 at 4:28 pm

  I can’t explain it. Trying to export a 2m45s video, 1080p to an H624, CBR. No big deal, right? I’ve rendered my sequence completely. I’m exporting with “use previews” highlighted, which to my understanding allows it to reference the rendered files in the sequence, so this should be about a 3 minute operation.

  After 20 mins, it is at 2% completion, and telling me that there’s another 2 hours left, and climbing. Anyone run into this problem/have a solution?

  I saw Chris Borjis’ post about his issues with auto-save. I tried turning off auto-save, but to no avail.

  I’m running a 2011 17″ MBP, 2.4 Ghz i7, 16GB RAM, 10.7.4, Premiere Pro CS6, with an OpenCL Mercury Engine supported video card. No other programs running. This is so bizarre.

  Alex Gerulaitis replied 13 years, 10 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  Chris Borjis

  July 17, 2012 at 5:07 pm

  Hi Gates,

  are you running Premiere 6.01?

  I found that update fixed alot of the hangups during export.

  prior to that, rebooting the machine, then opening the project and
  exporting was sped up tremendously.
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  Gates Bradley

  July 17, 2012 at 5:20 pm

  Yes I am running 6.0.1. I’ve tried exporting from both Premiere directly, and Media Encoder.

  One piece of pertinent info I forgot to mention is that my sequence begins with a decently intense, nested AE comp. Still, like I said, the sequence is completely rendered, and ‘use previews’ is selected, so to my knowledge this isn’t suppose to be a factor.
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  John-michael Seng-wheeler

  July 17, 2012 at 6:55 pm

  [Gates Bradley] “One piece of pertinent info I forgot to mention is that my sequence begins with a decently intense, nested AE comp. Still, like I said, the sequence is completely rendered, and ‘use previews’ is selected, so to my knowledge this isn’t suppose to be a factor.”

  Well, first you should try rendering the video without this segment. It’s probable that some kinda glitch is preventing it from using the preview. Also, Premiere calculates the render time based on the current speed of rendering, meaning that it’s says two hours because that’s how long it would take to render if the entire two+ minutes of video was as hard to render as this first bit of AE work. If you just wait patiently bet it’ll suddenly take off and finish.
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  Alex Gerulaitis

  July 17, 2012 at 7:35 pm

  How’s CPU and memory usage during rendering?

  Tried rendering a smaller portion of the project?

  Alex Gerulaitis
  Systems Integrator
  DV411 – Los Angeles, CA

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