For a recent project, I chose a deep red background, but when I exported it, it was black!
Thanks for any help.
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After Effects: Why does my background revert to black when I export?
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Media Encoder Won't Fully Quit
When I quit Media Encoder, it will close, but then it still shows up when I command+tab to switch applications. And when I go to force quit, it shows up there as well, but will never actually quit when I force quit it.
When I try to reopen Media Encoder by launching the app itself, it doesn't do anything. Then if I "queue" an export from Premiere, it will open Media Encoder but now when I command+tab, Media Encoder shows up twice.
Then if I try to quit again it will just keep doing the same thing. Then when I try to restart/shut down it will begin the process but always locks up and I have to manually force the computer to turn off by holding the power button
until it turns off.
I'm having this issue on my iMac and my MacBookPro. The iMac has been doing this for a month or two. I thought it would've been fixed in an update but my OS (I'm on Yosemite) is up to date, as well as all my Adobe apps.
My MacBookPro has just started doing this in the past couple of days.
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GPU setup for Media Encoder CC 2015. Geforce 980m.
Hi everyone! I need help with GPU setup for Media Encoder CC 2015. I have two Geforce 980m, but during rendering these GPU not working...
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Black bars when downconverting HD to SD
I am trying to use Media Encoder CS5.5 downconvert a HD clip (1920 x 1080) to DV PAL anamorphic (720 x 576) .
However there only seem to be 2 choice for me in the export menu in terms of pixel aspect ratio.
By selecting D1/DV PAL, the exported clip is a 4:3 letterboxed video - which is not what I want.
By selecting D1/DV PAL widescreen, the exported clip is an almost-correct anamorphic video.
I say 'almost-correct' because there are narrow black bars on the left and right side of the exported clip.
The image below shows the preview of the exported clip (with black bars at the side)
Does anyone know the reason for the black bars at the sides? And how can I get rid of them.
Thanks.
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Will a CUDA graphics card improved encoding speed for H.264 output?
Hello - my system does great with live rendering and the editing environment but I am looking at ways to improve my output encoding speed. I primarly output video for the web using h.264 and the Vimeo or YouTube presets. I have an ATI Radeon HD 5770 graphics card and 24 GB of RAM and multiple hard drives.
I was wondering if an Nvidia card with CUDA support would improve my encoding speeds? I know there are other benefits, but encoding is my primary concern for the time being. Could find any stats on this easily with google so I thought I would ask.
Thanks,
Damon
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How to export using media encoder CC 2015 to DVD
How to export using media encoder CC 2015 to DVD
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Adobe Media Encoder cs6 error 0xc000007b
Recently i installed Adobe Media Encoder CS6 , on start it showing application unable to start due this error 0xc000007b, please resolve ASAP, if anybody knows.
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how to convert a file to mpeg2 in Adobe Media Encoder CC
I have to upload files to LEDStudio and the have to be in mpeg2 format.
When I export my videos from Flash Pro, it's exported as a Quicktime file. How do I convert this to an mpeg2 format?
Thanks!
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How can it be that my render ridiculously slown down?
When I start my render it says it needs to render for 7 hours.
But after the 7 hours it's still rendering and it's almost frozen. It renders 1 frame per 10 seconds.
I have an Intel Core i5-5200U 2.20GHz CPU and I think it's a good one to render. I have seen almost every forum or video about it and I even tried Multiprocessing. But multiprocessing is not showing up. Please help!
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Key Frames and Key Frame Distance
I posted this is the Premiere forum two months ago, but no response.
I’m trying to understand where Key Frames are positioned, but the info I have found on the web is unclear. Here is Adobe’s explanation from the Adobe Media Encoder PDF:
Explanation 1
Key Frames are complete video frames (or images) that are inserted at consistent intervals in a video clip. The frames between the Key Frames contain information on changes that occurs between Key Krames.
By default, AME automatically determines the key frame interval (Key Frame Distance) to use based on the frame rate of the video clip.
If your footage has a lot of scene changes or rapidly moving motion or animation, then the overall image quality may benefit from a lower Key Frame Distance. A smaller key frame distance corresponds to a larger output file.
In another Adobe document it states that a Key Frame Distance is the:
Explanation 2
Number of frames after which the codec will create a key frame when exporting video.
Somewhere else it states (re Key Frame Distance):
Explanation 3
This sets the maximum # of frames between key frames. If this # of frames without a keyframe occurs, the compressor will insert a keyframe regardless of whether the scene has changed.
There are differences between the explanations:
- the first says that Key Frames are created at a constant separation;
- the second implies that Key Frames may not be at a constant separation (because a new Key Frame will be created a certain number of frames after the previous Key Frame, but doesn’t say anything about the Key Frame before that one);
- the last explanation is quite clear (but at variance with the first): The Key Frame distance is the maximum number of frames allowed between Key Frames.
My interest in Key Frame Distance is because I have noticed a very slight, brief shimmering at one-second intervals in my slide shows exported from Premiere in h.264 (Blu-ray), 23.976 fps, 20-30 Mbps bit rate, 2-pass, Key Frame Distance unticked (with “23” appearing dimmed). It’s a very subtle effect, not always visible. I assume the shimmering is when a new Key Frame has been inserted during a still. Whether or not that really is the cause, I'd still like to know more about Key Frames. Most of my Premiere work is with stills, with the occasional video clip from a Lumix GH3 (1920 x 1080, 23.976 fps, AVCHD) thrown in. The stills have mainly simple dissolve transitions.
Q1: I assume the clips out of my GH3 have, as per Explanation 1, a constant distance between Key Frames. If such a clip is cropped inside Premiere at a frame that is not a Key Frame, does Premiere, when exporting, insert a new Key Frame at the crop point, using information contained in the original clip to create the image at that particular frame?
Q2: In general, where two unrelated video clips abut (but not at Key Frames), what does Premiere do about Key Frames? Add one at the last frame of the first clip, and at the first frame of the second clip? Then apply the Key Frame Distance parameter to ensure that within each clip there are a suitable number of Key Frames?
Q3: For stills, does Premiere insert Key Frames at the Key Frame Distance? Or is it clever enough to know that: “Hey, this is a still. No Key Frames are needed.”
Q4: Where are Key Frames created for a still that is dissolving? Assume a Key Frame Distance much greater than the dissolve time. If I was designing Key Frame inserting software, I would create a Key Frame at the start of the dissolve, one in the centre, another at the end of the dissolve, and then no more until the next clip.
Q5: Can Premiere (or AME or After Effects) tell me where Key Frames are located? Can I move them?
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How to render out JUST Alpha in Media Encoder
So apparently Adobe has changed their settings in CC 2014 and Adobe After Effects no longer has the H.264 container, and is only offered as a codec for Qucktime. I've been told I have to go into Adobe Media Encoder for the H.264 codec. That's fine, problem is that Adobe Media Encoder does not really have any options for Alpha. From my understanding you have to set it to 32bpc for it to do alpha in a file, which did not seem to work, but that's irrelevant now because that's not what I need. I need to render out two files for a batch list, one with just RGB files and one with just alpha. I talked to someone from Adobe and they suggested I post here. Let me know if you need details.
Thank you very much.
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Fast Start Encoding Option?
Hi,
I've been searching online and reading through the forum articles about exporting from Premiere and AME with the 'Fast Start' encoding option for quicktime movie files in the h.264 codec.
A lot of the information I've gathered is around the 'moov atom' and how it's commonly placed at the end of a file. For the progressive nature of playback to occur this atom apparently needs to be at the beginning of the file. Forum articles and others have suggested using third party, line based applications to change this atom position. This seems ridiculous to me as it complicates my workflow.
I have recently switched from the Apple Studio products to Adobe's and in the past I would simply check 'encode for fast start' on the export menu and this would encode the file properly.
Does Adobe have this function built into the program? Am I overlooking something? Is there is a better workflow that I am unaware of?
How best can I encode my videos so that they will buffer a small amount and then progressively download the rest as the viewers watches it?
Thank you all kindly in advance for your help.
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Abobe Media Encoder is Now Broke After Update!
Hi,
To my dismay, I discovered that Media Encoder no longer exports mp4 files. Each time I try it now, it exports a file with the extension m4v instead of mp4, and it will not play. This is CS6 on a MacBook Pro running mountain lion. It was working previously before the latest update from Adobe. Anyone else experiencing this?
When I try and play back the m4v file, I am seeing this error.
thx
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media encoder will not save output file destination
I am running on a robust PC.
I've always had my media encoder dump all my renders in to the same folder. For no reason I can figure out, ME resets my output file destination by automatically unchecking that box in my preferences menu each time I send a video to render from Premiere. I then go back into preferences, check the box and specify my destination. To test this, I set my destination then close ME. I open up ME and the destination is still there. When I send a file from Premiere to ME, the file destination box is now unchecked. Am I missing something simple here? Perhaps the issue is something in Premiere?
I did have a separate issue with the Titler in Premiere not opening anymore. That issue is still unresolved, but an Adobe member suggested I remove the workingset.prsl. This ME issue has been a problem since then. I just can't seem to find where the issue is.
Any help would be great. Thanks in advance for reading and helping.
T
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Adobe Media Encoder does not pick up extra audio tracks when transcoding video clips.
I have 4K footage with 4 mono audio tracks recorded. Two of the tracks are dead audio, the second two are the camera's onboard mic. I need this audio to sync externally recorded tracks in PluralEyes, but that's besides the point.
When I use AME 6.0.2.81 (part of CS6) to transcode my 4K MOV files into usable 1080 footage for offline editing, it seems to only pick up the first two (dead) audio tracks, and ignore tracks 3 and 4, which contain the live audio.
So far the only solution I've found is to bring each clip into Premiere separately. Premiere recognizes all 4 tracks. I delete the first two, then export from Premiere to 1080. This is waaay to labor-intensive given the number of shots.
Any ideas why AME wouldn't pick up the second two audio tracks?
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After Effects CC - loss of quality when exporting h.264 with VBR, 2 pass
Hi
I've exported a video from AME using h.264 with youtube preset but the quality is really bad, both PC and Mac (Worked fine with CS6) and when i export it with vbr, 1 pass it works fine also
Is there a fix for this problem?
Thank you
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How to change render resolution of After Effects project in Adobe Media Encoder for an H264 preview?
I'd like to render a 1080i comp at half resolution or third resolution in AME to speed up render times for low-res previews. I just had a low-res H264 preview take 5 minutes to encode in AE, and 28 minutes in AME.
This is easily accomplished in the After Effects render settings. However, the "video" option in AME seems to imply the project is encoded at that resolution, not rendered at it.
I went into AE and changed the setting in the composition viewport to "half", but when I queue it up in AME, the "Match Source" button still indicates 1080.
What is the correct method to get the results I want?
I'm currently using AE CC and AME CC on Windows.
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Problems when encoding MPEG 2 with no B-Frames
Hello,
I am running into a strange artifact while using AME to encode to MPEG2. It's kind of a long story and lots and lots of troubleshooting with different encoders... but... here's the upshot and I can explain more if it helps you.
The program I am using for playback is requiring a file with gop structure IPPPP.. -- NO B-Frames. I believe the way to do this is M Frames = 1. I have N Frames = 15 which is essentially an I-frame every 15 frames and only P frames in between. Do you concur - do I understand this correctly?
Here is the problem, when changing M Frames =1 I get poor blockly quality only on the first 2 frames of the encode. The rest of the file looks great and plays back great. Other encoders I have tried with same or similar settings do no have this problem - however, I like the color output of AME better, so I am trying to find a way to use it as my primary encoder.
Here are my settings:
Dropbox - MPG2 1080p30 25000 (No B Frames).epr
Looking forward to a response... thanks.
kt
PS - I first tried chat support. Waited almost 20 minutes for first response, then constant waits between. This person was ill-equipped to help and could only say, "ask in the forum". Wasted an hour of my time. So - hopefully someone from Adobe will respond to this and try to either help or confirm there is nothing I can do.
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Incompatible Video Codec found in the preset. Preset Load Failed.
Incompatible Video Codec found in the preset. Preset Load Failed. ~~I get this error when converting and Mp4 file to an MOV in Adobe Media Encoder, lately. Rendered files to MOV from Mp4 before and not had any trouble in Media Encoder. How do I fix this?
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Export Error. Unknown error.
Hi,
I tried a few video outputs. They go for a few minutes. Then Media Encoder stops with an error.
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- Encoding Time: 00:20:00
02/09/2016 12:40:04 PM : Encoding Failed
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Export Error
Error compiling movie.
Unknown error.
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- Encoding Time: 00:04:02
02/09/2016 03:30:34 PM : Encoding Failed
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Export Error
Error compiling movie.
Unknown error.
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- Encoding Time: 00:04:27
02/09/2016 03:43:15 PM : Encoding Failed
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Export Error
Error compiling movie.
Unknown error.
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