At this moment, I am extremely frustrated with Premiere Pro and Adobe Media Encoder (both updated to CC 2015). I've finished a 15 min short film I've been working on but I cannot seem to get a completed render of the film out of either programs.
Technical things:
PC SPECS
CPU: i7-4790k @ 4.5 gHz
GPU: AMD r9 290
16 GB RAM
- Footage is on a 7200 RPM Internal HDD
- Rendering onto an internal SSD (supposedly this is a faster method then just rendering onto an HDD?)
- Footage is 4k and 1080p
- All footage was graded with Magic Bullet Looks
- Sequence is in 1080p (and I was rendering to 1080p)
- I had NO issues with premiere pro being slow throughout the editing process
Description of the problem:
So I will start with my render issues in Premiere Pro. For the render settings, I just select the H.264 YouTube 1080p template (and I don't make any changes to it either). When I use Premiere Pro to render, I render completely in Premiere Pro...I don't queue it to AME. So once I start the render, the audio previews render swiftly but the trouble sets in when PP starts to encode the video. The video will start to encode at a normal speed and this speed continues for usually about 1/2 of the video but then, the render speed will slow down severely until it just gets stuck at a certain percentage. Please note that at no point in what I am describing does Premiere Pro crash...the render speed just becomes extremely slow and the time left till completion starts to go up continuously
Now to my render issues in Adobe Media Encoder. I open up AME and import the premiere pro project file then select the sequence. From there I select the same H.264 YouTube 1080p render template and start the render. The same thing happens. The video will start to render at a normal rate and the time till completion is reasonable. Again, usually somewhere after the 50% mark, the render speed will go wayy down and the time till completion will start to increase. I don't know if knowing this helps but I have noticed (since AME has a preview of the video as it is being rendered) that when the render speed becomes really slow, I will start to see the footage in the sequence WITHOUT any of the effects I have added in editing (such as color grading).
PLEASEEEE someone help me so I can render out my short film!! Many thanks!