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As for the answer to the question in my title, I’m not talking about almost every function of this crap pile of software, but I have to use it for one of my clients.

All joking aside, here’s my problem. I am making regular videos for them, all about 45 minutes give or take a couple. The original clips are .MTS files from a pair of matching Sony camcorders. Basically two angles, and in Premiere I just lay one on top of the other, and blade cut when it’s time to change angles. Works out great. The audio is given to me as an MP3 which I convert to AIFF. That’s the three elements of each video.

Normally when I am done and it’s time to export for Vimeo, it would take maybe 3 hours or so to export. But now all of a sudden it’s taking 15-20 hours. And this is not just Premiere giving me some wild time estimate – after tweking settings, I decided to let one just flow along and see if that was the case – it showed an estimate of 15 hours to start with and took just over 12. Now I have one that originally said 22 hours, and 20 hours later I’ve got about 1 hour to go.

The only thing that has changed that I know of is I had a hard drive issue. I have an external 1TB drive that I use for video. The USB cable apparently was a bit loose inside because if you just bump it, it would un mount the drive. There were also times that when the computer would wake up from sleep, it would show the drive had been removed improperly. I ended up getting another external since you can’t have too much drive space, and copied everything over. I figured that I just had a corrupt project file, but even after redoing the project from scratch, still the same problem. So figuring that maybe something was wrong with the project files, I’m doing the next one, and now getting the longer export time. This is all done on the new drive.

I have journalling turned off (when I formatted the drive). That seems to be the only suggestion I can find on line. Premiere itself is on the computer’s hard drive, not the external. Any ideas what I’m missing?

I’ve tried both the exporter built in to Premiere and the queue. Both seem to have the same results. The settings are Format: .H264, Preset: VimeoHD.

The timelines are rendered.

The clips are right at 1G each and the copy time is about a minute.

I have found one other answer to the question in all of my research, which I will give a try on the next project, but what are your thoughts – It said on the export window, at the bottom, to uncheck “Use maximum render quality”. Wouldn’t that give a lower quality video?

Seems the option of un-checking “Use max render quality” is the ticket on this one. Taking a normal amount of time and the final video seems to be top quality.

On a related note, I just found something that Adobe did right. In fact I’ve been asking myself for years why Final Cut never did this – In Final Cut, when it’s time to make a DVD, you have to export as a movie. At least you have the option of a reference movie. But with Premiere, you have the option of simply sending the sequence straight to Encore. Seems that FCP could have had the same option for DVD studio pro.