The title pretty much says it all. I've finished a comp from After Effects that's ready to be rendered and I add it to the Media Encoder queue. It's a short comp that's going to be uploaded to twitter, so the preset that I use is Twitter 720p. But every time I start rendering, 10 seconds later, a crash report shows up and closes the program. I don't know what's going on. Is it a bug?
Hardware:
I keep trying to export a h.264 but AME keeps exporting an empty mp4 and an xmp file. Is there any way to merge the two or fix the issue?
I am a recovering Final Cut Pro user. Switched over about version FCP X 10.3. The railroad tie that broke the camel's back for me was a removed feature I am hoping I can do with Premiere in some way.
In FCP 7 and even FCP X up to 10.3, you had the option of sending a render job to their version of Media Encoder (Called "compressor") just like Premiere Pro can do now. However, you had the option of being able to use a "render cluster" by where if compressor was loaded onto other macs on your network, it would send the job out to one of those nodes or even split it up and send parts of it to several computers to parallel encode the job. Made large jobs faster and allowed you to not have to bog down your processors on you main computer with a render job. Apple just took it out with 10.4, which was a deal breaker for me.
I know Premiere/Media Encoder does not have the ability to split the job up, but was wondering if there as a way I could send a render job to Queue up on the Media Encoder of another system...say my Mac mini server which also has Media Encoder on it. Is there any way to select the path to the Media Encoder and thus have it deploy the render job to the other machine?
Thanks.
I've been encountering the following error the last few times I've tried outputting video. It is causing a significant setback for my work. Any help is appreciated.
So far, this is what I've tried to do to troubleshoot:
My current machine is a Dell Precision M4800, i7 with NVIDIA Quadro M2100. It's running Windows 7 Enterprise Service Pack 1. The last time the error occurred I sent the laptop to our IT department. They did a thorough hardware test, and also re-imaged the drive, so this is basically a new (tho' older) machine.
I've been trying to debug the cause of this error. It was reported to me as happening during an export from a Premiere time line.
I got as far as loading a source clip into AME and attempting to encode it directly and still received the error.
I have tried many different export formats all fail with the same error.
I've tried turning the GPU acceleration on and off, without success.
It doesn't happen with all clips, so I was about to log a fault with our DAM vendor, I tried analysing the clips but couldn't see anything obviously wrong with them, Premiere CC 2017 even plays them fine and AME CC 2015 does not have any issues exporting these clips. However I'm not that keen on rolling back all of our editing machines. Does anyone have a solution?
This is an example log of an error when exporting from Premiere:
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- Encoding Time: 00:00:15
03/10/2018 03:50:02 PM : Encoding Failed
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Export Error
Error compiling movie.
Render Error
Render returned error.
Writing with exporter: MPEG2
Writing to file: /Volumes/MediaCache/LOCAL RENDER/M-DISABLED-JHA-1800M-SA1_2.mpg
Writing file type: mpg2
Around timecode: 00:00:38:22
Rendering at offset: 18.960 seconds
Component: MPEG2 of type Exporter
Selector: 9
Error code: -1610153867
I tried Exporting a composition in After Effects to the Media Encoder Queue, Once I opened the Media Encoder, I went to find the composition and it was not present. I Saved the composition as an .aep file on my desktop and dragged it into Media Encoder and it gave me this Error. I have updated After Effects and Media Encoder to their latest versions as of 11/17/2018.
I am new to the Adober Creative Cloud and I have search all over the forums for something relating to this and could not find anything. I am not sure how to resolve this. Please help!
I'm getting frustrated. I have a 1hr long project that i'm trying to export and been fighting with it for a week.
Media encoder starts its work, it goes on for hours and eventually, at some random point it just stops encoding. It doesn't freeze, it doesn't show any error, it doesn't physically "stop" but the output preview just freezes on a random frame (different each time) and the 'remaning' export time instead of getting shorter just gradually gets longer and keeps increasing to show that it's gonna take hundreds of hours to finish... I didn't trust the preview/remaining time so i kept it on and encoding for 48 hours - at that time it showed that it was gonna take 600 something hours to finish and was still increasing. ridiculous.
I'm on an HP elitebook workstation. Nvidia Quadro 2000, 8GB ram. Win7, Using Premiere CS6. My sequence is pretty heavy - 1hr long, 9 video tracks, 10 or so audio tracks. Most clips have MB Looks color correction on them, some clips have stabilization, few clips use MB MisFire effect. 95% of my footage are 1080p or 720p MOV files from the Canon 7D and from GoPro. Few other clips are different formats (flv/mp4) and i have some stills + tiff timelapses and imported photoshop graphics. Also, just a few AfterEffects clips imported into my timeline. It's pretty heavy but i exported my rough cuts of this project many times before - most recently with the 720p youtube HD preset - always took a while, but it always DID export.
Now I'm trying to export with the 1080p YoutubeHD preset (except i checked 'render in max quality') and I also tried exporting as 1080p H.264 - and it just will not export... It's been a week now, i tried many times, i deleted the cache, i started a new project and imported the old one into it, nothing makes any difference and i'm out of ideas...
*** Few potential clues i need to mention:
- For some time now I've been getting the [..\..\src\TickTime.cpp-207] error whenever opening the premiere project. There are several discussions on this error on the forums - so far no solution and no clear source of the problem (aparrently sth to do with stabilization). But after clicking 'ok' on the pop up error message continuously for a minute or so, the error goes away and the project doesn't seem affected in any way.
- a couple of my previous exports of this project had 1-2 clips that looked 'scrambled' in the finished exported file. It was mostly the stills. This only happened 2 times though, many other exports were just fine. not sure why...
i'd much appreciate any advice...
Hi, with the new 2018 upgrade, I came upon to the issue of EFS not estimating the file size properly.
Speaking of a simple 30 second long H.264 mp4 format, rendered at 3mbit/s (1080p) - it normally wouldn't be bigger than 10MB. Via Media Encoder estimated file size shows up accurate but output after rendering is usually 5-10 times bigger than that with the same bitrate. So that 30 second video now renders at 30-40MB. Currently I have to use a 3rd party compression tool like handbrake after each render. This is a new issue and was not happening in CC 2017. Anyone had this issue with their renders? This is making processes longer and ineffective at the moment.
Thanks in advance for any reply!
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When I use Premiere, there is an option to export to HEVC, and at the first time it showed a popup asking install the codec and I clicked yes.
But now I can only find HEVC option in Premiere export menu but cannot find any in Media Encoder.
How to fix this? Thanks.
Hi,
I can't find any presets for convert from MOV or any files to WMW in Adobe Media Encoder CC 2019?
Is this function still existing?
Could you help me for the way to do?
Thank You
Hi guys,
The latest version of Media Encoder exporting a batch of sequences to master deliverables as well as for proxy generation continues to crash a few files into a batch encode. I've seen it crash on the second file, I've seen it crash on the 20th file depending on length of exports. Seems like it's about 10-15 minutes in when the crash appears. The latest crashes are with Apple ProRes Match Source 1920x1080 & H264 1920x1080 15MB Final Deliverable files exported concurrently under the same sequence. The proxies were a custom Apple ProRes Proxy 1920x1080 sequence preset. I did find someone that mentioned that closing Premiere prior to starting the encodes might fix the problem so I am testing that theory now, but curious if anyone's seeing it. I filed a bug report to the newly (albeit terribly) designed feature/bug report "forum" that Adobe made, but am still running into issues. Any others seeing it? Any thoughts on how to go about a workaround? Losing AME is going to screw me in the coming weeks with a ton of masters going out the door in the near future. Thanks.
Computer Specs -
27" Retina 5K iMac
4GHz Intel Core i7
32Gb RAM
AMD Radeon R9 M395X 4GB
MacOS Sierra 10.12.6
12TB Thunderbay RAID 5 w/Thunderbolt 2 connections
I am fully aware that Adobe does not "officially" support Media Encoder scripting through ExtendScript in the way they do for most of the other applications. But it is possible:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2170163/is-adobe-media-encoder-scriptable-with-extends cript
However, it only seems that the script can be run by opening up the ExtendScript Toolkit and manually clicking the green arrow which causes the script to run.
Naturally, this is far from ideal. For other Adobe applications, such as After Effects, the script can be run from command line in the following fashion:
"C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects CC 2018\Support Files\afterfx.exe" -r "script/path/here.jsx"
(See here for a reference: Run .jsx File From Command Line Windows )
However, when trying the same thing for Adobe Media Encoder (replacing it with the appropriate path), no such luck. Although the Media Encoder window becomes active, the script does not run.
Another thought was to put `#target ame` at the beginning of the script and then try running it with ExtendScript directly. When doing so, you get this window:
Unfortunately, clicking "Yes" does absolutely nothing.
The goal here is to be able to run my .jsx script for Media Encoder in some kind of automated fashion, without having to open ExtendScript and manually click on the green arrow each time. Surely there's some way to do this, but apart from the methods I've tried above which don't work, I cannot think of anything. What exactly is clicking that little green arrow doing, and is there any way to emulate that click from command line? I'm willing to try anything to enable me to run this script completely automated.
Any ideas?!?
For reference, I am using Adobe Media Encoder CC 2017 and Windows 10 build 14393.
Hi there,
I want to export with media encoder and got the following error-message. I tried several times, but it occurs again and again. Anybody knows a solution to this?
Thanks, Christoph
I use the search thing in the Start menu to open Adobe Media Encoder, but nothing happens. The splash screen doesn't appear, or anything. I tried exporting my After Effects file to MP4 by adding it to Media Encoder Queue, but nothing appears. I even searched for the application launcher in the Program Files Adobe folder. That didn't work.
I tried uninstalling and installing the latest version, which is 12.0. That didn't work.
I tried running as administrator. That didn't work.
I tried running it in Compatibility Mode for Windows 8 and 7. That didn't work.
I tried creating a Presets folder in Documents>Adobe>Adobe Media Encoder>12.0. That didn't work.
I'm at the end of my rope here. I'm just trying to export my After Effects composition, but nothing's working. I'm currently trying to use Dynamic Link with Premiere Pro, but it shows nothing. I know it takes time to render, but my whole composition looks black in Premiere Pro. Does anyone know of a way to help me get Media Encoder working, or a workaround to this issue?
Hi, I wonder if I can pause encoding in AME, close the application (reboot my PC), and relaunch AME to coninue rendering.
Couldn't find the answer anywhere. Currently I'm rendering large Premiere Pro project so I can not check it myself.
Thanks for help
Hi,
I have just started using AE CC and I was trying to output some videos but there was some bugs with the time using render queue but I had found the problem and fix it. But while solving this issue I found an odd problem with the Adobe Media Encoder CC. Everytime I click on export to Media Encoder it renders the video with no content just a black blank screen. The temp AE files it generates is fine no issues just the video file is blank. I tried a different animation that I had also created same problem. I got someone who knows AE and he tried using different codecs but its blank too. There is no problems with AE or the working file because I can render videos with no problems using the internal render queue, Its only media encoder having this odd issue.
I had tried updating Media Encoder to 7.01 even though its already 7.01 but still the same problem. How do I uninstall and reinstall? I have media encoder cs6 installed on my mac too. Will that cause any conflicts?
Currently I have these Adobe software installed - Adobe CS6 Design Premium (Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat Pro, Fireworks, Flash, Indesign, Dreamweaver - Full Liscene Version) and (Audition CS6, Edge Animate, Encore CS6, Premiere Pro CS6, Photoshop Light Room 5, After Effects CC - All Trial Versions).
I am using a Macbook Pro with Mountain Lion 10.8.5. All software up to date.
As in title, I would like to import .ae project to encoder to batch all compositions, and it doesn't work. Video below.
My spec:
Adobe Media Encoder CS6 (6.0.2.81(64bit))
After Effects CS6
Mac OSX 10.8.2
Project don't have any third-party plug-ins
I'm currently starting work on a project where we are capturing footage from several different places around the country. All the footage gets sent to me. What I'm looking to do is set up a fairly automated workflow using watch folders and Adobe Media Encoder to export small file size outputs of the footage that we can make available for the rest of the team to preview. So those exported clips get saved to another folder that gets posted.
The goal is to take what we shoot (very large in file size and lengthy clips and therefore takes a lot of time to post back up) and be able to give a small reference view to others on our connected team.
I know this can be done and I've seen the steps to take to set this up with watch folders - BUT -I need assistance in choosing the right output settings that will give me a small file size video clip that is of a decent image quality and audio quality, something that is widely viewable format wise. Looking for ideas on export settings to choose for this goal?
Thanks, Will
I have a problem with the encoder after upgrading to version 2019. The same problem occurs on two workstations. At random moments, the program stops working for no particular reason. This is a very big problem for me because I can not go back to the 2018 version at this stage of the post-production and I have to encode over 250 films. The only solution that work for me right now is direct export from Premier Pro. But how can you imagine the employment of someone who is sitting and every 30 minutes is encoding another movie is not the best solution.
What I did:
- reinstall all Adobe apps
- clean cash
- update graphic card drivers
- on one of the stations, I even reinstalled the entire windows
- I tried to encode without CUDA
- I did update to 13.0.1
- I did update to 13.0.2
... nothing works. Since I've experienced the problem, Adobe has already sent two updates, but none of them solved my problem. There is only one machine in the entire office that has no problems with 2019 Encoder and it's a laptop (Lenovo IdeaPad with Intel Core i7 6700HQ and GeForce GTX 950M).
Workstation parameters:
Intel Core i7 7700K
B250-HD3P-CF (Motherboard)
16GB RAM (ViperX)
GeForce GTX 1050Ti
Additional information
all postproduction takes place on network drives available in the local network
Printscreens
1. sometimes hangs during conforming (printscreen was made after 15 minutes in this state - the application did not report any error or crash)
2. but in most cases it looks like this ( the application did not report any error or crash)
Help?
Hi,
The Problem
After upgrading to the 2019 version of After Effects (16.0.0 Build 235) and the 2019 version of Media Encoder (13.0 build 203) I am not able to render my footage in Media Encoder. It won't connect to the Dynamic Link Server.
I am able to drag and drop my composition from AE to AME. But when I try to render the composition it gets stuck on 'connecting to the Dynamic Link server'.
My system
MacOS Sierra Version 10.12.6
Processor: 2,7 GHZ Intel Core i5
Memory: 16GB
Videocard: Intel Iris Pro 1536MB
Extra info
It all worked when i was using AME version 12.1.2 and AE version 15.1.2
What I have tried
- I tried this solution AME cannot connect to Dynamic Link Server
(I looked into this further and find out this problem happens when the following conditions are both met.
AE Preferences > General > "Show Start Screen at Startup" is disabled
AE Preferences > New Project > "New Project loads template" is enabled)<- which didn't work for me.
- I tried to install the previous version (12.1.2). I was able to render footage, but wasn't able to drag and drop my AE composition in AME.
- I tried to reinstall AE and AME.
- I tried to reset my AE preferences.
- I checked my Dynamic Link connection in After Effects and Premiere Pro.
Anybody else got this issue? Really appreciate the help!
Thanks!