Trying to render videos in Premiere Pro on a great computer, but it's broken because of an old Windows 10 upgrade.
Trying to render videos in Premiere Pro on a great computer, but it's broken because of an old Windows 10 upgrade.
Hey everyone, As the title says, I am having trouble making videos show up on Premiere Pro. Before I had to wait a while for an update or two, I used to cut videos for my YouTube channel that were 10, 20, or even just under one minute long. Those short clips would finish in literally seconds. But now, after several Windows updates, it takes forever to render full HD videos from streams on Twitch. A one-minute video used to take a couple of seconds, but now it takes 2, 3, or even 4 minutes. I tried both software and hardware encoding settings using the same bitrates and options as before. I also reinstalled Windows. Everything looks fresh; the OS is now build 1809 (used to be around 2004 back then) after all those updates. I have also updated my drivers and other stuff. The render times are a little better, but not close to what I expected. Is there anyone here who can help me fix this problem? My PC specs look like this: I have an Intel Core i7-5900X with the turbo boost going up to around 4.9 GHz (Ryzen Master says it's in PBO mode, and the max clock is set to 4.900GHz). Noctua cold air cooling fans on a black DH15 case, 32GB of Vengeance DDR4 RAM running at 3200MHz, an AMD Radeon RX 3080 graphics card from the Evga FTW Ultra kit with an 850W PSU, and an ASUS B550 Prime motherboard. I'm currently using a fresh version of Windows 10 Pro (build 1809), which is installed in Task Manager showing CPU usage hitting about 4.5 GHz and only around 30% while rendering with software encoding. The GPU usage on the hardware encoder was lower, around 8%. However, when I switched to the hardware encoder, the render times were slightly faster at a full HD video without effects that took 2 minutes less than the software version (roughly 4:30 minutes total). How long should it take me to render a one-minute full HD video with no special effects? Literally, I just edited the clip. I was planning on doing more high-quality work where I try different colors and visual effects. Does that mean I have to wait up for like ten hours just to render a 10-minute video? I poured so much money into this PC setup just to be ready to handle whatever I throw at it, but suddenly after a Windows update, everything seems underperforming now. My gaming performance hasn't taken a hit either; it still feels the same. If anyone has a couple of minutes to hold my hand through this, or any helpful advice, that would be huge. Thanks in advance for reading!
If you just want to start OBS without saving anything, it runs fast but doesn't save the video unless you tell it to do so. If this was new after an update from Windows or NVIDIA, maybe the software didn't work well before because of that upgrade. Did you keep your settings exactly like they were last time? Maybe you should turn off Power Boost (PBO) and only use Power Plan B instead. Turning on PBO could boost the processor to higher voltages which might cause some problems for your video recording.
Your Windows version is 20H2. Go check your system's performance using Resource Monitor. See if the Premier Pro setup needs to change things. Look at the disk drive details—make, model, size, and how full it is right now.
Everything looks okay with my system. If I wanted to use more powerful stuff, I'll need the Premier Pro and Windows because they are on my SSD. That drive is a 500GB Crucial one. But I also have a 1TB HDD there too. Yet, lately, things aren't working well for me. Besides that, whenever I just try to start OBS, it causes big stutter in the games. I don't know why this happens anymore.
When you just start OBS, it runs fast but won't save the video yet. If all the work happens on your CPU cores, that sounds normal. Did something change after Windows? Maybe an NVIDIA update broke the hardware acceleration? Are you using the same settings in Premiere as before? As a last step, try turning off PBO and just use PB. High power boost can spike vcores and cause problems.