Adobe Media Encoder - Premiere Pro SLOW Rendering

Question

Hi, there
I've been using my laptop which has the specs: 2.8ghz intel core 2 extreme, 4gb DDR2 800mhz RAM, 8800m GTS 512mb.
Now, I've been able to export my videos from Premiere Pro on that machine roughly with a 1:5 time ratio, a 1 minute video might take 5 minutes to render, and no, I'm not complaining about the 5 minutes, please read down before you click off.
I've been exporting with these settings:
-h.264
-1280x720
-3.2
-24fps
-2.0 - 2.3mbps VBR 2 pass
-AAC, 128kbps, stereo, 44.1khz
Anyway... I just installed Master Collection onto my second computer which has the specs: 2.1ghz tri-core AMD Phenom, 4GB DDR2 1066mhz RAM, 9600 GT 512mb (not to mention a faster hard drive)
Now, with this superior machine, it is taking literally over two hours to render a ONE MINUTE video, I have no idea why, I'm using the same settings and have everything up to date.
I've also checked my processes, all three cores are maxed out, I've even adjusted the priority which makes a noticable but little difference.
Does anybody have any ideas?
Thanks a bunch in advance,
Chris

Answer 1

When I say render, I'm referring to rendering inside of Adobe Media Encoder - unless there is something I don't know when it comes to the setting you're referring to.
Also, yes, it has an animated logo - which I use on the other machine too, same exact animation.
As I was writing this response, I just disabled the logo animation - it renders in 4 minutes. However, I need this animation - I'm wondering what to do. It has a 4Kx2K png animated using the basic 3D effect and HLS effect - though, this doesn't delay rendering on my other computer!??
Hmm, thought of a fix though, I’ll render out my logo animation with a transparent channel, this way I just drag the scaled down animation on top of my videos, should improve the render time.