I recently installed the latest version of Premiere Pro CC 2018 and I am experiencing extremely slow render times. This happens on 1080p footage, 4K footage, GoPro Footage, Mov, H264. I've troubleshot everything I could to know that it is the program itself and not a set up that I have. This has only been happening in the last week since installing the latest version. There are no effects or color grade or anything applied to these clips. To render previews of a 6 minute video with proper timeline settings takes 40-60 minutes. Add any effects to that and it is hours and hours to render out a Youtube H264.
I am running on a MacBook Pro with 16GB of RAM and have never experienced anything this slow. I've already come to far on two projects that I have deadlines for to go back to CC2017 and re-edit them.
Please can someone help.