Hello All
Would really appreciate this being addressed very soon as it is having a huge negative effect on our workflow currently.
Basically we have 4 films all no more than 30mins in length that we need to encoded for BluRay and DVD having edited them in Premiere Pro CC. We open AME and load up the PP sequences we need to encode (they are all the 4 films from the same project just different sequences).The sequences load and we set destinations for the encoded files and check the formats that we are encoding too etc and then hit start/go and the encoding starts. However, it simply takes AGES to even begin encoding and sometimes it doesn't even start it just sits there like a lemon seemingly doing nothing at all! It has not frozen as I can access menus etc but it is just looking like it is about to do something but it either takes about 15-20mins for something to start happening, then it encodes fine (until it reaches the next sequence then AME usually becomes unresponsive and I have to Force Quit!)
Why is it freezing like this and why is it talking so long to begin the encodes?
We have kept the 'Enable native Premiere Pro sequence import' checked in the Preferences as this has been working okay for single encodes to the web and I really like the speed it brings the projects into AME at. I do not want to have to uncheck this option. If it is a bug that is causing the problem meaning we have to work around it by diabling this handy feature then Adobe should be busting their tail to bring out a fix for this. Doing without a feature is not a solution!
Also, we have GPU CUDA acceleration on in the Renderer again this should be on in my opinion and I am not happy with changing to 'Software Only' as a resolution. This will not do!
With these four films we have two different encoding formats happening at the same time often when the problem happens (one to BluRay and one to DVD) however it is now also happening with just DVD encodes so I am highly frustrated as I have deadlines and not meeting them as finding it nearly impossible to get anything out of AME in a resonable and timley manner. THIS NEEDS URGENT ATTENTION ADOBE! When CC was introduced I am pretty sure we were promised faster routes to upgrades and fixes to issues.
I'd really appreciate either some assistance to the problem or a confirmation of when the next update is coming that will resolve the problem. Otherwise, FCPX and Compressor is looking like a good investment and I'll jack in my CC subscription!
Many thanks