Audio Render issue - Media Encoder

Hello All,
I just ran into a odd audio issue after a render. Anyone have any idea as to why this is happening? (audio file below)
Sequence is : ProRes 1080p 2997. Rendering to ProRes. Audio source is a .WAV
http://www.rtbstudio.com/Clients/AudioError.aif
Additional testing has shown that the issue only occurs when I render out of Adobe Media Encoder.
Rendering straight out of Premiere does not produce this issue.
Thanks!
- Ryan
Premiere 7

You are correct Jim, I was in a bit of a hurry and didn't check my language.
It is on exports. Odd thing about this, it only gave me an audio issue when 'exporting' to ProRes. I did a multitude of client review Quicktime H264's and never had the issue. Even with the 'Native Premiere Support' checkbox enabled.
It appears de-selecting the 'Native Premiere Support' option works for the prores.
Will Adobe ever address this issue? This issue makes me really nervous when exporting batches via AME.
Cheers!
-Ryan

Similar Messages

CS4 Audio Sync Issues After Render in Media Encoder

I'm editing a 6-part online promotional video right now using Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, using MPEG footage (MTS) imported from a Panasonic AG-HMC40 AVCCAM HD. Upon rendering each video to a Quicktime mov in Adobe Media Encoder, there's always at least one instance in each video where the audio is out of sync or there is a 1 to 2 second jitter in the video. Otherwise, the final product looks flawless.When viewed in the timeline, the video/audio mesh perfectly (although, if I keep re-playing the problem clips in the timeline, I can occassionally see some jitters). The same issues occur when rendering to H.264 Youtube Widescreen HD.
Anyone have any suggestions?
File Info:
Type: MPEG Movie
Image Size: 1280 x 720
Pixel Depth: 32
Frame Rate: 23.976
Source Audio Format: 48000 Hz - compressed - Stereo
Project Audio Format: 48000 Hz - 32 bit floating point - Stereo
Average Data Rate: 2.1 MB / second
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1.0

No, there is no blacklisting here. Now, some might be a tad confused by "Render" in the title, but I'd expect them to read, and understand. I just pointed that out, to avoid confusion down the thread. I expected to read of a Render messing up the sync, but it became very clear exactly where your issue was occurring.
I wish that I had more to add, than a question on the H.264 CODEC, but have not encountered this myself. I'm only relying on what seems to have worked for others, and might not have any bearing on your issue.
Good luck,
Hunt

Why wont my audio/video transitions render in media encoder

when im rendering a project from PP in media encoder the audio/video transitions i added to my project dont show up in the rendered version of the video (the affter affects compositions i added show up though) but when i open the project back up in PP there they are. am i just not applying them correctly, or is there an extra step to link them to the clips or something. im still new to the software so you'll probably have to explain this to me in very basic terms. thanks

I don't use Photoshop for video so am having to guess here, but you say H.264 but not what preset you are using. In PremPro there are something like a 100 prest options for H.264 Try something like Vimeo HD 1080p 29.97, but instead of exporting the entire video, drag the markers under the video preview window, to contain just enough to see if it is working. That will save you a heap of time. Can you select VBR 2 pass from the Citrate settings in media encoder? The Vimeo setting of 5Mbs for the target bitrate should easily give you nice transitions, but you can up that if you like, at the expense of file size.

Export Media in Premiere Pro CS6 ONLY produces an Audio File in Media Encoder

First, all the system info:
Windows 7 Home Premium Service Pack 1
Intel HD Graphics 3000 Display Adapter
I’m using Premiere Pro CS6 Version 6.0.5 (001 (MC: 264587)) “Mighty Kilt”
Version 6.0.3.1 (64 Bit) of Adobe Media Encoder CS6
Other Adobe applications installed: AIR, Creative Cloud, Download Assistant, Encore CS6 Library, Flash Player 12 ActiveX, Flash Player 12 Plugin, Help Manager, Premiere Pro CS6, Premiere Pro CS6 Functional Content, Reader XI
I’ve run check for updates on both Premiere Pro and Media Encoder and everything is up to date
I'm producing a two disc, dual layer DVD set for 100 families of my son's marching band.
I have a half hour "masterwork" of interviews, performance segments, rehearsal sequences, credits, etc that I've edited together complete with sound, etc.
I also then have various other video segments from the season, some high quality (1920x1080) and some lower quality.
Rather than import everything into Encore and have Encore transcode them all at the same quality, I wanted to ensure that the half-hour piece and certain other segments were transcoded as high quality as possible and given the largest file sizes I could and then transcode other segments at lower quality levels as needed so everything would fit on the discs.
The company I'm using to duplicate/replicate the 100 DVDs from my Master DVD advised me to encode them FIRST in Premiere Pro as desired, and THEN import those files into Encore.
I've used Adobe Media Encoder a lot to export the individual segments into files I could upload to Youtube and have had no problem for the last several months.
But now, two things happen:
1) AME automatically designates the "Output File" with an .aac extension (see attached)
2) When I do an "Import As" of the AME encoded file in Encore it only loads an audio file (obviously)
Huh?
Here are the settings I use in my Export Media dialogue in Premiere Pro CS6:
Format: MPEG2-DVD
Preset: NTSC Widescreen High Quality
Output Name (and filetype): ______ name with Save as Type of "Video Files(*.mpg)
BOTH the "Export Video" and "Export Audio" boxes are checked (see attached screen print)
Filters Tab: left as is, don't do anything here
Multiplexer Tab:
choose the "DVD" button (vs the "None" button)
Bitrate Type: left as Variable which is what is selected as a default
Video Tab:
Codec: Reads MainConcept MPEG Video
Quality: increase it to the max of 5
TV Standard: NTSC
Frame Rate: 29.97
Field Order: None (Progressive)
Pixel Aspect Ration: Widescreen 16:9
Render at Maximum Depth box checked
Bitrate Encoding: I choose CBR for my high quality segments and VBR 2-pass for my lower quality segments
Bitrate: kick it up to the max for high qulaity segments, adjust as needed to get the filesize I want for my lower quality segments
Audio Tab:
Audio Format: Dolby Digital
Codec: Dolby Digital
Bitrate: At least 320, sometimes higher for the segments I want to be the highest quality
I check the "Use Maximum Render Quality" box
I chose "Queue" for everything and then let it run overnight
And yes, the original media has BOTH a video track and an audio track that works (see Screenprint)
So... what am I doing wrong, helpful experts????

Larry, Mark, Jim & Bill -
It is 1 am Tuesday morning and I'd do a primal scream if my family weren't all sleeping upstairs.
Somewhere along the way, I either read or was given the advice to just skip AME, load my videos as timelines in Encore, and just do the transcoding there.
I spent almost a day trying to figure out how to get "buttons" for my menus I was building (they weren't appearing in Encore's library like they should) and eventually found a simply workaround.
So I then spent the last 24 hours or so building all my menus, creating small clips for my "motion menu" buttons, getting all that straightened away.
Got really excited earlier tonight since it seemed like I was nearly finished and coming down the home stretch.
I hit "build" in Encore, went away for a couple hours, and came back to find a big error message awaiting me telling me that "Encoding Failed."
I have read a lot of posts, and the outlook is not good, or at least the possible solution not simple or short from a time perspective.
I have a 100 families awaiting their DVD they've paid for that they initially were told they'd have by mid-February. I've been telling everybody that they would have it - guaranteed - by this weekend when there's a band festival that would be ideal for distribution. The DVD duplication company says they have to have it by Wed morning at the absolute latest. Meaning I've got about 24 hours to figure this out and burn my dual-layer masters of the two DVDs or once again tell people "I know I guaranteed you'd have it by this weekend, but I don't have it ready yet."
Almost as importantly, I can't afford to keep spending the hours and hours and hours on this that I have. It's impacting my personal and professional life.
Thus the primal scream.
The posts I read about the encoding failure all pretty much advise that I use AME to do all the transcoding work. Which of course brings me squarely back to my original problem: I cannot get a video file out of AME.
I'm embedding a screenshot of what I see when I click on the pull-down menu in the AME dialogue window. The problem: there is no MPEG2-DVD option listed to be chosen.
Although I'm relatively new to forums, I've read enough posts by now that it seems like most people are in crisis mode when they post. So I realize my situation is not all that unique. But from a newbie rookie in the field to you experts, I REALLY could use some assistance right now, because between this and the long, cold winter we've had, I'm about to lose it. :-)
P.S. Mark, in answer to your question about frame rates, I have 18 different videos/films/projects that I'm including in my two DVD-set. There have probably been nearly 6-7 different cameras that have contributed footage to one or more of those films by borrowing camcorders of different brands and types and quality levels from people. Nearly every one of those 18 films have multi-camera sequences in them. And many films are collections of sequences which themselves are "nested sequences" sometimes three deep. In otherwords, there is no way I can tell you all the various frame rates that may be represented among these 18 separate projects and I certainly can't go back and hope to change them all to the same one.
Help. Please. :-)

When is it best to render OR media encode

Adobe CS5 has the ability to encode AE comps and add to the queue without even having AE open. But i wonder what situations are better to render AE comps from the AE render queue or the standalone Media Encoder. Should a user expect better 64 bit performance from one? i know that codecs can limit that from happening, but i find that Media Encoder works all my processors into a frenzy when i render a comp from either AE or Premiere.
Would love to know whats going on under the hood so i can streamline my workflow. I have been buoyed by my recent attempts to collapse transformations and pre-render, and i want to improve my efficiency even more.

There are pros and cons to using the standalone Adobe Media Encoder. See this page for an overview of the ways of rendering and exporting from After Effects, including using AME.
One pro to using the standalone Adobe Media Encoder is that it can do two-pass encoding. So, if you're creating movies for final distribution and want to make them especially small, then you can use the standalone Adobe Media Encoder.
One con to using the standalone Adobe Media Encoder is that it doesn't have the ability to set multiple output modules for one render item. Within After Effects, you can set multiple outputs for each render item, which means that the actual rendering operation only happens once, but the encoding/compression/writing output files can happen for multiple output types from one internally held set of rendered frames. Adobe Media Encoder can't do that; if you have five output types, then the compsotion will get rendered again for each.
My workflow for creating F4V and FLV files is to render and export a losslessly encoded movie from After Effects, and have the destination for that output file be a watch folder. AME picks the item out of that watch folder and then compresses and encodes the FLV and F4V files according to the presets that I've set.

No audio on Adobe Media Encoder CS4

I'm using Adobe Media Encoder CS4 (4.1.0.107) to convert an MPEG2 clip with WAV audio to FLV or to F4V.
The export audio checkbox is checked but the output file I get has no audio.
I'm using Windows Vista SP2.
Please I need your help !!!

I have VBR as an option under FLV/F4V. Multiple passes, too.
Nothing special here. I have used most of these settings to test them out (VBR multipass wasn't available previously in PPro) and compare them to my Sorenson Squeeze results. You'd be better off with Squeeze, but it's not too bad in this version...much better than the previous implementation of the On2 VP6 encoding.
Different vendors with their different applications utilize codecs differently. In other words, just because VBR or multi-pass encoding is part of the available spec on a certain codec (for example, On2 VP6) does not mean that the entire spectrum of options will be fully implemented in your application of choice. Sorenson Squeeze has one of the better utilizations of On2 VP6 available for the price.
EDIT - Make sure you are using Flash 8 and higher, not Flash 7 and higher. Sorenson Spark codec is limited to CBR. It's all available in the video tab under Basic Video Settings and Bitrate Settings.

Audio Export - Adobe Media Encoder

Kudos to the Adobe team for making the export of frames soooo much better in the 4.1 update. Can you please do the same for audio export? I really don't enjoy spending 10 minutes to export a 30 second section of audio.
Cheers.

Spot on Jim. Once the AME has loaded the project, it renders quickly. The project has over 650 video clips, still images, titles, and audio clips, the AME loads everything, not just the work area selected. It really doesn't take 10 minutes but it is an excruciatingly slow process when one is 'in the groove' editing or compared to earlier versions.

No audio on Flash Media Encoder

I recently install the FME 3 in my computer and I try to broadcast live to justing.tv and there is no sound. The hardware I'm using is a TV tuner card or a web cam with a microphone. I reinstall the software and drivers fof all devices and I have no luck.
Thanks for any help.

Check you are using the same device that works fine for WMEnc, make sure the correct pin is enabled.
Make sure you arent using them both at the same time as most audio sources need to be locked to one program that is using it. If you want to run multiple encoders from the same audio source then you may need a decent capture card with software to allow is such as Viewcasts Simulstream.

Premiere CC and/or Media Encoder audio bad renders

Occasionally, but not always, when I export a timeline to Media Encoder queue, the video renders out with no audio.
I have not found a repeatable way to replicate this, but when it happens, it really blows up my workflow.
Typically I:
Import a ProRes 1080 clip into a fresh timeline, and only trim down the ends. Audio and Video playback great in premiere. I then, without changing anything, export to media encoder queue in h.264 1080p OR 720p (vimeo preset).
The queue runs and bang, video file with no audio.
My extended workflow is as such - once the h.264 file has arrived in the folder (it is a watchfolder), there are presets set to create OTHER Files - wav for CD, mp3 for podcast, DVD for distro, mp4 for podcast. So, as you can see, it snowballs into a trainwreck. I would also automate/schedule the podcast postings, but obviously I can't rely on media encoder/premiere to do it's job.
Has anyone experienced any lack of audio render issues? Is it tied to hardware at all, or is it just freak randomness? I even got to point to where I reboot the machine right before each original capture begins, but the error is always in the first render out of premiere.
I have checked for any muted tracks and such, and there are none. As I said, it is VERY random. For instance, this week, I dropped the capture into a timeline, exported as usual, and got a bad render. Did it again, this time moving the audio down a track. Still a bad render. Rebooted the Mac, tried it all again, and finally got a working render. This is the first time it has happened TWICE in a row, and I'm getting tired of it, as these renders are fairly long.
Any help would be much appreciated.
- Ben

Ben, I'm having the same issue. Never had it before yesterday.
I'm editing on CC with R3D's. I have 8 tracks of audio. When I'm exporting (either through Encoder or through Premier) I'm getting a final product that has no audio, and in its place a loud clicking sound. I performed a number of reboots and got it to export once. But I've tried dozen's of times now and can't get audio to export through this sequence.
When I go to render the project I'm getting an "Error Compiling Movie. Unknown Error" message. I suspect that's related. Not sure what's happening. I'm going to keep testing. I'll let you know if I discover anything. But it is VERY FRUSTRATING:( Deadlines are looming.
-Brian

Media Encoder CC audio question

I have a ProRes standard def file (.mov) with 2 stereo pairs of audio. I am trying to export it to a DVCPROHD Quicktime (.mov) with the same audio configuration.
This seems to be impossible. My audio export options as a Quicktime file with this codec are 1 mono track, 1 stereo pair or 2 mono channels. This would result in a downmix, which I do not want.
There is a setting which allows me to have this video codec and the audio configuration I want, but the resulting file will be in a .mxf wrapper, which I cannot use.
Is there really no way to just do audio passthrough in Media Encoder?

I am running version 8.2.0.54 currently.
So... I start Media Encoder, add a file with 1 video track and 8 discrete channels of audio to the queue, select "QuickTime" for my export, select "custom" from the dropdown under "export settings", select the "audio" tab and go to the "basic audio settings" where I can select the number of audio channels I need under the "channels" pull-down menu.
Yes, this seems to work fine! I wonder why I couldn't get this to work yesterday (or ever, really), despite doing what I thought was exactly that.
Thanks for the help!

Adobe Media Encoder wont Render from Beginning

Hi there I am trying to render a After Effects Project but when i try to render in Media Encoder it will only render from 1.47.26sec into my project ot the start,
i have tried to adjust the Source range in Encioder as well as make sure the work area is the full clip in after effects but cant figure it out, help would be much appreciated.
Thanks

Have never tried what you're doing. Perhaps Export a new clip from AE using a lossless codec, and then use AME on that clip? On Mac, use ProRes, and for PC you can install UT, Lagarith, or Avid DNxHD for instance.
Thanks
Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers

Adding to Media Encoder Render Queue Failure

Hey guys,
So every time I attempt to add my composition to the render queue (media encoder) it always just results in my AE crashing and it does not get exported to Media Encoder. Any solutions to this?
Thanks!
Kel

No idea why because I don't know anything about your OS or your version of AE or your project. Try this. Create a new AE project that is 8 bit. Create a new standard HD comp that is 10 seconds long. Add a shape layer or a text layer or a solid to the project. Save your project and then see if you can add it to the AME. If you can, then there's something in your composition that is causing the problem and you need to give us a complete description of what is in the composition. The easiest way to do that is select all of the layers in your timeline and press the U key twice to reveal all changed properties or added effects. Then post a screenshot. If you project contains pre-comps then a flow chart and the timelines from he nested comps will also help.

Media Encoder doesn't start rendering when I queue from Premiere Pro

I have Premiere Pro CC and Media Encoder CC, and it seems the render in Media Encoder never starts or takes a very long time to process.
When I start exporting on Media Encoder, the preview shows up, but the encoding time stucks at 00:00:00 or 00:00:01.
If I export videos using Premiere Pro, the video exports just fine. It just that Media Encoder is not working.
This happens when I use Audio Effects on my audio files. I've been exporting audio separately and re-importing them into my Premiere Pro project so that Media Encoder will export my videos. But this takes more time to make videos.
Anyone having this issue?

[Moved to AME forum.]

Premiere/Media Encoder Crashing/Inconsistent

Hello,
I am rendering a 75 minute long feature film timeline. It is a 4kHD timeline with mixed RED and 1080p content.
At first I was using CS6 but everytime I would render in media encoder it would crash. No matter the preset. I tried clearing the cache and so on but no dice.
I then updated to CC and after opening and converting the project I sent it to render. It had a new cache location and was still conforming files while rendering but it completed the entire 75 minute timeline in just under 4 hours. Rendering a 1080p h.264 Blu Ray. That was awesome.
The next time I tried to render the timer kept counting up... starting at 3 hours, and after ~4 hours it was indicating 30 hours remaining. Then it crashed.
I then cleared my cache again, and unplugged the two RAID drives I use as Cache. This forced Premiere CC to default my cache to the C: drive and it reloaded all the media and conformed audio. I sent it to render and it completed it in just under 4 hours again. awesome.
So now I have my final version. It is due tomorrow. I have a clean cache again on my C drive. I send it to render and it is 18 minutes in with the timer still climbing up, indicated 19 hours currently. So same as before. I have rebooted, cleaned cache, saved a copy of the project and re-opened and deleted the AME preferences. I have also tried rendering direct out of Premiere (crash after conforming audio)
So I'm probably going to miss my deadline and beyond frustrated. I know my system can export this in under 4 hours as it has done it before, but maybe 1/20 tries and now it seems I have hit a wall. Super stressed.
Using Premiere and AE CC. System is a X79 based i73930k. Windows 7. No overclocking or any of that business. Watercooled and temps are fine (65c on CPU). Has a GTX 680 and a GTX 660. C: drive is a 512SSD, also has an internal 8tb RAID 0, 2 external RAID 12tb drives and so on.
Any ideas?

still conforming files while rendering
Better not to do that. Let all conforming finish before sending it to export.

Using Premiere CC and Media Encoder CC at the same time

Is this possible? Doesn't seem to be. Media Encoder bails on every job as soon as you try to render anything in Premiere. I guess they don't play nice together, which is surprising. I was hoping that Media Encoder would pause and wait for Premiere to finish a render. Instead it dies on every render job, creating 0 size video files... while making a sheep bleating sound.
Is this a GPU issue? I have 2 nVidia cards, a 770GTX and 560GTX. (Windows 8.1, 16gb RAM, 3770k CPU)

As soon as I initiate a render in Premiere, Media Encoder bleats, and all subsequent render jobs bleat and produce 0 size video output files... even if I quit the Premiere render before Media Encoder reaches some of those render jobs.
I suspect this is a GPU sharing issue.... but can't be certain.
What do you mean by new install? Did I install it (AME or Premiere) recently? No. I've had Creative Cloud on my machine for almost a year, and both Premiere and Media Encoder have been updated periodically.
To my knowledge they have never worked together, but I only started using the queue feature within Premiere recently, so I haven't used AME until recently.

Audio Render issue - Media Encoder

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for