hey guys my name is Matt Johnson and
today I want to show you how to
dramatically speed up your video exports
in Premiere Pro and show you how I took
a 14 minute video export down to 4
minutes sound awesome
ok the latest version of Premiere Pro
now supports hardware encoding using
your graphics card which means that your
video exports can now be up to four
times faster in this video I'm going to
be walking you through the exact steps
that you need to take to make sure that
Hardware encoding is enabled so you can
get that faster speed on your PC yes you
heard that right unfortunately from all
my research this technique does not work
on Mac OS yet hopefully it will be
enabled in the future now let's get
started first you should open up
Premiere Pro and go up here to help
about Premiere Pro here you should check
and see if you are on version 14 point
2.0 or higher if you're on an earlier
version this is not going to work and
you're gonna need to update premiere you
can update Premiere Pro by opening up
the Creative Cloud desktop app clicking
updates and then here next to Premiere
Pro you will see a blue Update button
once you update and you see it says V
14.2 you're good
next reopen premiere if it isn't still
open for you and click new project title
your project and choose a location to
save it and then here under general this
is very important for video rendering
and playback make sure your renderer is
set to mercury playback GPU acceleration
because I have an Nvidia graphics card
in my computer it says CUDA if you have
an AMD graphics card it's going to say
open CL here in these parentheses with
GPU acceleration enabled press ok
alternatively if you've already started
editing a project and you want to enable
GPU acceleration for that project go up
to file project settings general and
there you can see the same menu where it
says video rendering and playback and
make sure that says mercury playback
engine GPU acceleration then click OK
next regardless of whether there's a new
project or whether you're already
working on go up to edit preferences
media and make sure the enable hardware
accelerated encoding and decoding box is
checked then hit OK at this point you
can edit your video as you normally
would
once you're done though we have a few
more steps press ctrl M on P
see to open up the export settings
dialog box first to get this faster
Hardware encoding you need to make sure
that for format you either select h.264
or HEV C h.265 if you aren't sure I
would stick with h.264 also I have some
export presets that I've created for
Premiere Pro for both 1080p and 4k
exports if you want to download those
they are linked down in the video
description I'm gonna select one of my
export presets now this is my 4k export
preset and because I have these presets
and this video is focused on hardware
encoding I'm not gonna cover all the
basic video settings for your exports
instead I'm gonna go down here to
encoding settings for performance I'm
gonna select hardware encoding and
notice that whenever I mouse over it
says utilizes available Nvidia hardware
for quicker encoding that means that
premiere is telling me that it is going
to use my graphics card to export the
video alternatively if you have an AMD
graphics card it is gonna say utilizes
available AMD hardware for quicker
encoding for profile mine is set too
high and the level is set to 5.2 but
this is gonna vary depending on the
resolution of video that you're
exporting like I said I have those
presets linked down in the description
now if you've noticed that your hardware
encoding box is greyed out for some
reason and you're unable to click on it
there is one other setting that we need
to check let's scroll down here to
bitrate settings and here for bitrate
encoding you'll see that I have CBR
selected Hardware encoding will work
with both CBR or VBR one pass if you
select video are two paths and we scroll
back up here you see it's been changed
to software encoding and if you try to
enable Hardware encoding it says the
system's Hardware does not support it
click OK let's go back down what I would
recommend that you do is select CBR this
is the bitrate encoding that I always
choose for my exports the encoding
settings and the bitrate settings are
the only settings that you're gonna have
to change to make sure that your videos
export super fast using your graphics
card time for the last step you can go
down here and click export to
immediately export your video and
premiere using the graphics card but if
you want to use Adobe Media encoder to
export your video that way you can still
multitask and
mere click queue once media encoder
opens down here next to renderer you're
gonna see our old friend mercury
playback engine GPU acceleration CUDA if
you're on Nvidia OpenCL if you're on AMD
make sure that this is enabled and you
do not see software only because if you
see software you ain't using the
graphics card and we want that graphics
card speed with that selected click the
green play button and your video will
start to export super fast that's it now
if you have an issue with any step in
this process say under project settings
you are stuck with software only you
cannot select GPU acceleration or
Hardware encoding is not available
whenever you're trying to export your
video here are some steps that you can
take to try to make it work first check
and see if your computer has a graphics
card that's capable of hardware encoding
if you're on Windows 10 go down to the
search icon in the bottom left and
search device manager with a device
manager open go down to display adapters
hit the drop down and there you will see
the graphics card that you have
installed in your computer if you use an
Nvidia graphics card I've included a
link down in the description to a page
from Nvidia where they list all of their
graphics cards that support NV e and C
which is what Adobe uses for hardware
encoding basically if your graphics card
is a 1050 or newer it should support
Hardware encoding regardless of whether
you have an Nvidia or AMD graphics card
though I would highly recommend that you
update your graphics card drivers to the
latest version I will link to websites
down in the description where you can
update both your Nvidia and your AMD
drivers also if you check your display
adapters and it says Intel integrated
graphics I'm sorry but this form of
hardware encoding is not going to work
for you lastly if you're working through
your export settings and you mouse over
Hardware encoding here and it does not
specifically say utilize available in
video hardware or AMD hardware and
instead says a more generic utilizes
available hardware or something like
that that may mean your computer is
using Intel Quick Sync instead of your
graphics card in that case I would not
recommend using Hardware encoding
because Intel Quick Sync has a chance of
degrading your video quality now I
cannot go into specifics about how to
disable Intel Quick Sync on your compete
because that is going to depend on the
motherboard that you have installed in
it but to some of what you should do if
you have a dedicated graphics card but
it's not showing up whenever you mouse
over hardware encoding you should go
into the bios of your computer and make
sure that your integrated graphics are
disabled this should disable Intel Quick
Sync and make hardware encoding work
with your dedicated graphics card with
that I hope this video has helped you
speed up your exports if you have any
questions or comments or need help with
any aspect of this I would love if you
would consider joining my facebook group
and asking questions to me or the
members there it's linked down in the
video description also it would be a
huge help to me if you want to see more
tutorials like this in the future please
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subscribing lastly don't forget to
download those Premiere Pro export
presets linked down in the video
description as well thanks so much for
watching and have a great day