How to speed up export in Adobe Premiere CC

Question

Can somebody talk me thru the basics of exporting media in Adobe Premiere CC? I have a one-hour movie with some lighting effects applied. I can't believe how long it takes to export. The quickest combination I could find was exporting to Quicktime and using HD 720p YouTube preset and it looks like 3 hours 28 minutes.  Other combinations look like they'll take all night? Is that normal? I used to use Final Cut Pro and it was much faster.
Any tips appreciated.

Answer 1

That wasn't criticism of your equipment ... just stating what is reality in dealing with the current slate of Adobe vid programs. What they're designed to run on, what they can run on ... and what to expect. Your computer specs aren't particularly blazing for mid-2014. And though it irritated the Hades out of me, as my last machine had a Radeon card that was awesome for say, Lightroom and other stills programs ... their coding is really designed for the Cuda stuff included only in the nVidia cards, so the blame programs don't hardly look at a Radeon's GPU no matter how hot it is for say, gaming & other video-intensive things. Yeah, irritated the heck out of my builder, who's a gamer par extraordinaire, and LOVES the awesome things a number of the AMD cards can do particularly as a price-check against comparable nVidia cards.
So ... you wanna play in this pool, you build according to this pool's rules.
PrPro, Ae, and Sg are pretty much designed for major work, and ... have their quirks, including some things that some major-pro's find lacking. When other things are pretty much awesome. There's been a lot of folks leaving Final Cut to come to the Adobe things lately. Some types of projects probably still do better in FC, some in PrPro. Whichever works is what you need to use. I love the interface between PrPro & Speedgrade. For most of what I do, slick as ice.
My one actual digression with your last post ... I don't think there's necessarily a dearth of information by Adobe and others on these programs ... it's that the information that's there by THE HOUR in vids & tutorials and all seems more based on what one CAN do with the programs rather than a simple, direct & forthright HOW to do something. There's always steps & gotcha's that are missed, none of the Adobe vids ever seems exactly what I need for what I'm doing, and lynda-dot-com is where I pretty much go for figuring stuff out. And here. Stupefyingly complex? Oh, yea ... it's interesting to see the comments here every week or two where a major participant explains how to do something, and another Biggie goes ...:" woa! ... I didn't know that could be handled through that set of options, I've always done that through here with 10 additional steps."
Yeah ... documentation could be um ... slightly? ... improved.