Premiere Pro takes 8 hours to export 8 mins of video

[Jeff Pulera]

Any chance you have applied a Stabilizer to some clips, or Video DeNoiser, anything like that? Those things can take a very long time to render. Otherwise, 8 hours makes no sense – you have good hardware and it should take only minutes really.

Please post a screen gab of Export Settings if you can

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
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[Alexandru-constantin Popa]

I haven’t applied anything at all to the video footage. With these settings, it took more than 4 and a half hours to export a 362 Mb file.
I have tried changing everything, as I said, but to no result.
I will try reinstalling the software and see if it goes away.

[Jeff Pulera]

What format is the corner logo? Best bet is a .psd or .png with alpha, at the correct 1920×1080 sizing so no scaling required in Premiere.

I see you have the export set to be a .mov file, but what you want for YouTube is just an .mp4 file. Also, for anything viewed online/computer you do not want interlacing (1080i), you’d want 1080p export.

For Export, use the H.264 > YouTube 1080p 29.97 preset.

DO not check “Max Render”, that is for scaling output which you are not doing. Also do not check “Use Previews” – else you are compressing twice and previews could be of poor quality anyway.

Let me know how that goes then

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
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[Jeff Pulera]

Just realized something – you said the source clip was 1080p, yet the Sequence in Export Settings shows Upper First fielding (1080i).

Try this – right click the source clip in Project Bin, and select “New Sequence from Clip”. This will create a Sequence to properly match the specs of the source video. Now go back to original sequence and Ctrl-A to “Select All”, the Ctrl-C to “Copy” contents of timeline, then open the new sequence and Ctrl-V to “Paste” contents.

Now you should have a copy of original sequence, but with correct settings. Then set up export as in my previous post.

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
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[Alexandru-constantin Popa]

Than you so much!
I can’t believe I haven’t even thought about the logo. That was the issue. It was way to large, and I have just scaled it down with free transform the first time.

Now it renders the whole thing with better overall settings ( 878 MB) in less than 15 min.

Thank you very much!

Popa Alexandru-Constantin

[Jeff Pulera]

You’re welcome, glad to assist

Jeff Pulera
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[Alex Udell]

Also….

Max Render Quality is not needed, really.

this might help further.

Alex Udell
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[Duke Sweden]

There are two “Maximum Render…” settings. Are you saying neither one needs to be checked if not upscaling?

[Alex Udell]

Hey Duke….

maybe I shouldn’t shoot form the hip on responses like that…

I think this thread explains it better than I can.

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1030828?tstart=0

Alex Udell
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[Duke Sweden]

ok, I read the link. The only thing I’m not sure of is exactly what is considered “low color depth”? Should I assume (remember, I’m just a home hobbyist) that my Nikon D5500 produces “low color depth”, in comparison to a RED or Black Magic camera? Or is low color depth present in video that was merely shot in poor light?

No rush. This is more just out of curiosity than trying to meet a deadline. btw, I did leave off maximum bit depth and maximum rendering and I didn’t see much difference in rendering time compared to the same clip with both checked.