CS4 Media Encoder hangs while encoding

I've seen a number of other users post a similar problem to this forum. I'm wanted to open a new post to explain my problem so that I can post a link here into everyone else's post.
I'm running Premiere Pro CS4 on Windows XP, with a 3GHz single-core CPU, and 4GB or RAM.
For some projects, AME hangs about half way through the encoding and completely locks up my computer. The problem only happens on one particular set of input files (which are H.264 720p 24fps .mov files), and it is 100% reproducible. I've tried all of the ad-hoc workarounds that I've seen posted here (cleaning out the cache directory, moving the .MOV files to a different location, deleting the .proj and starting over). Nothing helps.
I suspect the following will work:
     1. Use AME to convert the .MOV input files into a different format (.AVI?) with the same resolution and frame rate.
     2. Create a new project, import the AME-converted input files
     3. Re-export
It's annoying that AME crashes so easily (I've only been using PPro CS4 for one month, and only for five projects of less than ten minutes run-time each). I'm surprised I ran into this crash so quickly (maybe it's because a full-time software QA engineer.... but I hope not).
I'll update this post when I confirm my workaround.
Andy Frazer
http://www.gorillasites.com/nightphotos

>
> That thing is bound to happen if your system does not meet minimum requirements.
> What are your specs?
>
As I mentioned in my original posting, I'm running Premiere Pro CS4 on Windows XP, with a 3GHz single-core CPU, and 4GB or RAM.
I'm not sure what other specs I can provide?
The video is on a rather small 400GB hard drive with 80GB free, right now. Is there anything else I can provide?
But I'm not sure why you think this problem is related to specs. As I mentioned, it only happens on one particular set of video files. I didn't mention that that particular set of video (720p) is actually smaller than my other projects (1080) which do not have this problem.
Also, I've been able to lock up the system once by dragging these same imported files into the timeline, and one while trying to save this project. Again, this only happens with one particular set of small input files. It's three H.264 720p files each approximately two minutes long. I've been able to do the same encoding on H.264 1080 files that are 30 minutes long with no problems.
Thanks
Andy

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Microsoft RLE
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     FileDescription   = Microsoft Video 1 Compressor
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     LegalCopyright    = © Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
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     ProductName       = Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
     ProductVersion    = 6.0.6000.16386
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     InternalName      = wmvsencd.dll
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     OriginalFileName = wmvsencd.dll
     ProductName       = Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
     ProductVersion    = 11.0.6001.7000
Nero DVD Decoder
     FileVersion       = 4,11,3,7
     CompanyName       = Nero AG
     FileDescription   = MPEG-1/2/4 & AVC video decoder w/ DxVA
What should I do? Can I just reinstall the codec from my Adobe CS4 Production Suite (Without) creating more issues and problems? It seemed the Wiki hints were helpful to pin point a problem but not always at giving solution.
Thanks in advance,
Seb
P.S: Could Adobe throw a little software to download to ensure all codecs are what they should be like and prompt user to reinstall straight from our Dvds? It would be soo much easier that way.
Seb

Choppy and lagging playback from videos/animations exported from Cs4 (Media Encoder)

Hello!
I got Creative Suite 4 (Production Premium). I usally uses AE and PrePro, saves the project and uses Media Encoder to export the footage. My filmcrew got a Sony HDR-200 (I think) who saves in AVCHD, m2ts full HD.
First I edit the clip with Sony Vegas... Cut the things I do not want.
Then, I applie visualFX with After Effects and sometimes Premiere Pro. Saves the project. Fire up Adobe Media Encoder and selects "add After Effects Composition".
I always render in:
H.264
HDTV 1080p 25fps
PAL 16:9 Ratio
The Video was/is original i:
Sony AVCHD (m2ts)
1080p 25fps
Everything seemes ok. No error messages or anything like that.
Next step, I import the footage (from any Cs4 application) into Vegas, Movie Maker or whatever software.
The whole clip, is "choppy". Frames mixes together. The footage is choppy even in Windows Media Player, Winamp... Not just Vegas...
Example: My actor is going to stand up from the couch. While rising, several frames from when he sat and when he has risen appears. The mixes, last ca. 2 frames each.
Summary: All Cs4 products exports choppy video... Media Encoder or not... Same problem.
Please help me!
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CS4 Media encoder - Crop+Resize problem

I`m attempting to both crop and resize a video at the same time.
I have an AVCHD 1920X1080 premiere CS4 project. I export it to media encoder.
I`m attempting to encode it to flv or f4v.
After having cropped the video in Media encoder I would like to resize it but then I encounter a problem:
I have 3 options in the output settings:
Scale to fit/Black borders/Change output size.
`Black borders` is not what I want. I need my frame to contain nothing outside of the image.
If I choose `Scale to fit` the video immidiately becomes terribly blurred. It can`t be not a resolution issue as the size is 429X622 after the crop and the original is HD (and if I encode it the result is accordingly strangely blurred) I can resize the video but it will be `blurred`.
If instead, in the output settings I choose `Change output size` I get a normal video image (no blur, that is) but the the `resize video` interface under the `video` tab is disabled - it is greyed out ( even though the checkbox next to it is still marked) and the width and height boxs are greyed out too. I can`t resize.
I`ve attached to this message a JPEG capturing a part of the frame to show the strange blurring problem as well as the greyed out `Resize` interface.
What am I doing wrong ?

Jim Simon asked:
But isn't that the size you want? If not, how did it get set that way?
Thanks for your interest, Jim Simon. Well, no, it`s not the size I want. I want to be able to resize at will, after I had cropped. How did it get set that way ? I got that 429WX622H frame merely by cropping the original 1920X1080 frame by using the `Media encoder` crop function, while the output is set to`Change output size` . If I would go now and rechange the size of the cropping frame I would get different dimension numbers. But as to how it got `set` this way, and now I refer to the word `set` as in `not being able to change anymore, being greyed out and disabled` - I have no idea at all, and this actually stands at the core of my bewilderment. If i choose to go about it differently and change the order of actions by resizing first and then cropping, for example, if I would choose first to change the size of the video from 1920X1080 to let`s arbitrarly say: 720X440 and then I would go and crop it in order to exclude from the frame certain imagery that I don`t need, then, Oddly enough, my previous resizing action will be strangely ignored and the cropping is re-calculated from the original 1920X1080 frame. I may even end up with a `crop` which is larger than my `resize`.
In other words: I need to be able to change both what I include in my frame and the final video resolution, and media encoder would not allow it in `Change output settings` and it would allow it in `Scale to fit` but then it insists on adding a strange and impossible bluriness effect even in the result encoded video.

CS4 Media Encoder won't encode!

Hi!
Resently upgraded to CS4 and tried to encode a couple of
video files to FLV for a project, only to discover it did't work!
The media encoder didn't accept any video format, avi, mpeg etc to
be encoded. It accepted FLV files though...It worked flawlessly in
CS3, encoded anything you throwed at it, but not in CS4. Any
clues??

quote:
Originally posted by:
BWolfe [ADOBE]
You're the first I've seen reporting this. Could you be more
specific about the behavior you're seeing? What are the repro
steps?
Well, I open up the program by itself or trough flash. Then i
press the add button to find the file or i just drag it in, after
that, a window pops up that says "The file could not be imported".
Thats all, and as i said it doesen't matter what kind of file type
it is, exept FLV. The system i use is a macbook pro.

CS4 Media Encoder doesn't launch

Have been exporting and rendering files in CS4 for years and for some reason, yesterday, ADOBE Media Encoder stopped launching from the export window of PPRO? I still get the setting box, save box, but when I click okay, nothing happens; ME does not automatically launch. ME is still there, I can bring it up manually, but it doesn't have the export file in it.
Anyone know why this would drop out suddenly? No updates/reinstalls, or weirdness from the day it worked to the day it didn't?
Plus, anyone know of a way of getting a PPROJ into ME without going from PPRO? A short cut, if you will, of dropping a project into an already open ME?
I have searched around for answers to this but have not found a similar issue (I did not have CS3 before, so that whole thread doesn't seem to help me)
thanks everyone,
Planetarium Guy

I am afraid I never did get any answers. I uninstalled everything (I have the whole suite) and reinstalled it.
Then, when I wanted to export from PPRO, AME did launch but didn't have the sequence auto loaded in (as it used to); it just came up and I still had to manually load in the sequence. After I did all the updates on the reinstall, even that stopped happening; AME stopped launching automatically.
So I have been manually bringing up AME and manually loading in the sequences and then opening the settings from AME to configure the export settings I want (as it doesn't remember what you had saved in the export window of PPRO).
I wish I had an answer for you, but it looks like this work-a-round is what I will using for the near future,
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CS4 Media Encoder- Two Pass CBR settings?

I have come across something strange in the stand alone Adobe Media Encoder CS4 (Windows and Mac) when attempting to encode an FLV with on2vp6.
There is an option under CBR that allows for a two pass, however it also has the minimum bitrate, maximum bitrate and bitrate variability options. This makes sense for VBR, but why are they there for in CBR? Are they inactive for CBR? Shouldn't they be dimmed? Are you supposed to set to 100% and leave it? Is it a bug? I know H.264 only has one pass, and it acts the same way as FLV/on2vp6 One Pass.
One of the whole points CBR is that you have a defined bitrate with no variation, used predominantly for HTTP Pseudo Streaming or Streaming. I have a bitrate limit imposed on a server, so I add video and audio bitrates together and get the total bitrate and I want a steady stream. With minimum and maximum settings it would vary depending on your content hence the term VBR which seems contradictory to CBR...
Can anyone please shed some light on this?
Thanks in advance.
Jon

Thanks again for the reply. The next question would be, is One Pass CBR then the only true CBR (or best for streaming/pseudo streaming)?
Adobe's Docs skipped right over that (2 Pass and CBR)...seems pretty important, maybe they figure most will just use One Pass for CBR.
The funny thing is you can't find any real references on the web to Two Pass CBR either. Even Google wants me to change it to VBR Two Pass in my searches :-)
The reason I ask is that when we ran Two Pass CBR, it flagged an error on the HTTP Psuedo Stream server (similar to Xmoov PHP) because it exceeded the bitrate limit at a portion of the video (evidentially) and stopped it in its tracks... Unless maybe it was a coincidence but it was tried several times supposedly. I didn't witness this, because we don't have access to the client's Intranet/VPN (long story). I built a JWPlayer/Xmoov PHP setup at our site to replicate, but it doesn't have the bandwidth throttling enabled to test that theory. I will try to run some more tests and post back here if I find the anomaly.
I much prefer VBR 2-Pass anyway for quality but you can't really stream it effectively.
-Jon

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