THIS. Also since I move to Premiere And ME 2022, it takes an extremely long time to render in ME than in Premiere. I got a video with 5 mins and 30 seconds in duration, but AME's estimated render time took 2 days to finish. I thought it was a bug at first, but it turns out it's not, the timer didn't go down, and it will finish rendering after 2 days. Took me hours to fix it. Turns out that you only need to export in Premiere, and boom, 12 minutes later, it's finished. I would love to see a Premiere Pro export-only option in Excalibur settings.