Media Encoder File Destination

How do I set AME to output the encoded file in the same directory as the source material (or another directory of my choosing)? Right now, whenever I invoke AME from PPro CS4, it defaults to some obscure folder that I had opened WEEKS ago. So I have to execute seven or eight mouse clicks to get to the proper destination folder EVERY TIME I want to output a file. So much for workflow streamlining. Help, somebody.

My guess is file a improvement request and wait for the next release, it really is a pain that they made several steps backward on the user interface on CS4. This ranks right up with saving out a single frame "improvement" that they saddled us with in CS4.

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Adobe Media Encoder - File Size HUGE. HELP

I have a MPG that is 216mb. When I attempt to use Media Encoder 5 or 5.5 the estimated file size for a 640 x 480 f4v is 26456mb.
I have used the computer at my school with the same file and the file size is 2mb. What am I doing wrong at home? I can't image encoder can make a 216mb file become 2.6 gb.
Please help.
Howard

Please drop the source clip into MediaInfo and check what it says the duration is. (If you don't have MediaInfo, you can download it for free from the Internet.) If possible, please post a link to the clip so that we can download it and check it out for ourselves.
Two details catch my eye in the Source Summary. Both screenshots show that the field order is Unknown and that the clip has no audio. I doubt either of those details accounts for the incorrect duration, but the unknown field order, at least, makes me wonder whether AME is having trouble interpretting the footage correctly. I suggest going to the Interpret Footage dialog (right-click on the clip in AME's queue and select Interpret Footage), and setting the Field Order to the correct value [Upper Field First, Lower Field First, or No Fields (Progressive Scan)]. While you're there, check whether the frame rate is accurate--according to the screenshot, it's 30.000 fps. Is that accurate?

Media Encoder File Size Estimates Very Inaccurate (How to Reduce Blu-ray File Size)

Hello there!
I made several wedding videos last summer and exported my video and footage to HD .m2t files using a high profile h.264 codec and they always came out being plenty small to fit on my single layer Blu-ray disks. But this year I filmed a wedding (same camera) but my files seem way larger, so I'm doing something different, and I'm not sure what. Should I use MPEG2?
I'm attaching an image of my Encoder settings. I will say that the files it outputs are playing at the proper rate (in this case, the video rate hovers around 12mb/s like it should). Encoder estimates a file size of 2.7 gb, but the final file is 16.4 gb. That's not very close. This file is full HD, 23.976 fps, 8-bit and about 30 minutes long. I should be able to easily fit this, and the other videos I need on the same disk at these low data rates right? I have some of my Disney Blu-ray movies ripped on my computer and they play at 40 mb/s. That's twice my max rate and those files are 20 gb for an hour of video (including 3 5.1 audio streams, a 7.1 stream and several subtitle tracks, I just have stereo audio).
So should I switch all my files to MPEG2? What are your favorite settings for a putting Canon DSLR h.264 footage on Blu-ray? Thanks!
EDIT: I re-exported using MPEG2 and the file estimates were correct.

Encore, and I suspect most authoring programs, allows a maximum of 40 Mbps COMBINED video and audio. so anything over 35Mbps video only risks problems.
I don't know what all the specific differences are between Adobe Media Encoder/PR/EN's H.264 preset vs the H.264-Bluray, but bitrate going over 35 is one of them. And Encore clearly does not like that. Many encoders result in small (and for some larger) variations that result in spikes over the allowed level. Any of those issues can result in Encore "seeing" a file as not BD legal.
I think all Ann was saying was the she agreed with your using the H.264-BD present with multiplexing off. And she suggested (I thing with the H.264-BD preset) selecting the max bit depth. I'm not sure if she actually meant max bit depth, or max render quality.

Media Encoder Output Destination

Why is ME defaulting to an old destination, when I am invoking it from Premier Pro CS4? Shouldn't it at least default to the folder from where the project resides? How do I change this?

steve,
What? Never before? If you think that CS4 was a great pay for Retail Beta privilege, you should have been around for the true 'public beta' and the nine Retail Beta version and dot releases of Adobe LightRoom. Retail Beta Joy like never before! :)
Compared to that CS4 is super stable and bug free--pretty sad for a paid Retail Beta, actually. But, hang in there, there's hope. CS5 is coming, and that could potentially be an ADOBE Paid Retail Beta Triumph :) :)

Media encoder preview files folder

Hi!
I'm not sure this folder exisited the last version, but in media encoder CC it's there in my documents/adobe/media encoder preview files.
the problem is that it's getting realy big- 30 gigs. I'm not sure why is it created.
I want to know if I can delete those files and I realy need to change it's path so it wont block my c drive
thanks

If you are using a SSD there are likely to be a few very large files that you would like to relocate, not just those belonging to Adobe.
I too found that media encoder files within ‘c:\users\[ME]\My Documents\Adobe\Adobe Media Encoder\Adobe Adobe Media Encoder Preview Files\8.PRV’ with no obvious way of adjusting the settings to move them.
The solution I usually use for this type of problem is to create what is known as a ‘Windows Junction’, which is like a ‘shortcut’ but behaves exactly the same as a regular folder. I decided to move the whole of the ‘c:\users\[ME]\My Documents\Adobe’ folder from ‘My Documents’ to the root of another disk drive and then create then replace this with the ‘junction’ named ‘Adobe’ in . ‘c:\users\[ME]\My Documents\’
1: Close all Adobe software in case anything is in use in the Adobe folder (or the move will fail).
2: I was going to suggest moving the files at this point but it may be safer to copy them and then delete the ‘Adobe’ folder only if the copy is successful. Copy the Adobe folder to another drive using drag and drop, in this example I used the root of the ‘G’ drive. If the move is successful delete the original ‘Adobe’ folder from ‘My Documents’.
3: Start a command prompt window in administrator mode (right click / run as administrator)
4: Change the directory to your ‘Documents’ folder using the command (not My Documents):
CD “c:\users\[me]\documents”
Replace [me] with your folder name, which is usually your name
5: Assuming you moved the ‘Adobe’ folder to the ‘G’ drive, and replace ‘G’ if different enter the command:
Mklink /j Adobe G:\Adobe
I have put multiple spaces in the above where there must be at least 1 space.
I have used this solution to move parts of ‘program files’ and other folders from the SSD to a regular hard drive for software and files I do not use very much.
Maybe I should make a video of this procedure?

Adobe media encoder cc will not save output file destination

Hello all,
Hopefully a simple issue here. I'm running windows 7 and just downloaded AME CC. I've tried over and over to save my output file destination in Preferences and have saved my media cache files to the same location and the saves will not take. I was able to get it to go to the drive and folder I specified ONLY when I clicked the "Match Sequence Settings" tab in the AME pop up window. My settings need to be different, so I leave the box unchecked. Anyone else having this issue? Can anyone help me out getting this simple function to work? I saw a short thread on Creative Cow dated February 2013 with the same concern from a user and I did not see a resolution at the end. I have not been able to find anything on this anywhere. Sure, I can continue to manually save each file I render in AME, but it's a big PITA. I finally was in between projects so I downloaded the CC upgrade and replaced my CS6 version and now I have this simple problem from an alleged upgrade? Help please.
Thank you.
Todd

Premiere sequences queued to AME from the Export Settings dialog won't honor AME's output path preference. Instead, they default to the last path used from Exp. Settings via Premiere. However, you should be able to get the result you want by queue-ing to AME's default path once from Premiere, which will make it Premiere's default as well.
Or, you could drag and drop your sequence from the Project panel directly into AME's queue; that will use AME's preference instead of Premiere's default path.

Media Encoder CC specify file output location doesn't work?

Hello everybody! When i render a video from Media Encoder CC the "specify output file location" only works if i go to preferences then select the folder,then when i reboot the PC it still says it's going to that location but doesn't. Does this happen to any one else? And how can i fix this? thanks !

Check your permissions-settings. It sounds like your preference file is is written to a destination that has specific read-write permissions. Or that it is erased when rebooting (schools often have this implemented)

Adobe Media Encoder CS5 hangs when adding files of varying HD resolutions.

I've seen questions similar to this related to CS4 but never explained very well, and my CS4 for mac worked fine. I am unsure if this is a new problem or a windows specific problem but here is the situation, if you need more information I will gladly provide it.
For the past week or so I have been encoding 1920x1080i mov files (h.264/aac) to 1280x720p (vp6/mp3) flvs. When I stick to that single HD format in the AMC processing que everything works great. However, when I add older HD content into the AMC que, content with non-standard presets, the program hangs. I tried to import about 15 files last night and the program just sat there all night in a '...NOT RESPONDING' state. The video's have different audio and video settings and it's little difficult to pinpoint exactly what they were. Some are 1440x1080, some are 1280x900, some have PCM audio some of mp3.
Now I temporarily resolved this issue by simply using cs4 master on my mac pro which worked great. However I have noticed a huge speed increase in CS5 64bit AMC. It takes 2-3 hours to encode 1 flash video on my mac pro (dual quad core xeon 2.9Ghz/32GB ram) with CS4. It takes ~20 minutes on my windows 7 station (single core 2 quad 3Ghz/8GB ram) with CS5.
How to replicate:
If I drop a single file into the AMC CS5 que, regardless of the resolution, frame rate, or sound codec; it will import. If I then add another file with a different resolution AMC will hang and become non-responsive. It never crashed but I can't wait 12+ hours to see if it accepted a job or not. As I said before this problem was not observed on CS4 for mac - it worked flawlessly, albeit a little slow.
Software used:
Adobe Media Encoder CS5 windows 64bit
Adobe Media Encoder CS4 mac 32bit
System specs:
Windows 7 home:
Core 2 quad 3Ghz
8GB ram
80GB SSD x25-m
nVidia Quadro 580
OSX 10.6.3:
Dual Xeon 2.99Ghz
32GB ram
4 7200 disks in 4TB raid 0
Radeon HD 2600
Matrox MAX h.264 compressor card
Any advice on this situation would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time
-Michael Emanuel

Hi Michael,
Sorry to hear you're having problems with Adobe Media Encoder. I'd like to get some more information about the problem so I can better understand your workflow, and potentially try to recreate the problem. For what it's worth, I often import files of different resolutions without any problem, so I want to find out what's different about how you're using AME.
Apologies for the long list of questions; the small details can be important.
-- After you import the first file, what else do you do in AME? Change the preset? Change the settings? Change the output destination?
-- What are the properties of the files that are causing the problem? You said it happens on "non-standard" files, but can you describe the specifications for one or more files that cause the problem? Please include file type, length, frame rate, frame dimensions, field order (if applicable), alpha mode (if applicable), and audio type and rate. If you know more the bitrate, both video and audio, that would be nice, too.
-- If any of the files are small enough, could you post a couple online that I could try on my machine?
-- How were these files generated? What application created them?
-- Where are the files stored? A local drive, a network drive, a removeable drive (USB or Firewire), etc.?
-- Which Adobe application or suite do you have installed? AME a limited set of options if you're using Flash or Web Premium compared to Master Collection, Production Premium, Premiere Pro, or After Effects.
-=TimK
-=Adobe Media Encoder QE

Adobe Media Encoder P2 File Size Too Big for Fat32

Hi everyone,
I'm working on a project that has to be delivered on an actual P2 card.
I'm on a Mac running 10.9.1 using Media Encoder 7.2.2.29.
My final files are ProRes files and I dropped them into Media Encoder and selected the P2 AVC-Intra 100 1080 option. I set the destination to a local drive and everything seemed to encode properly. I have a CONTENTS folder and all the required subfolders and MXF files. The problem is, when I went to copy the folder to the actual P2 card, Finder told me that some of the files "can't be copied because [they are] too large for the volume's format." And, indeed, looking at several of the video files in the Finder, they seem to max out at 4.29GB (4,294,971,924 bytes), which is 4,629 bytes larger than the FAT-32 size limit.
I just now tried to encode directly to the P2 card and I got an error that was, ostensibly, a "Disk Full" error, but happened at right around where I would expect that 4GB limit to be.
Is this something others have encountered? Is there a setting I missed? According to the P2 workflow PDF here, the folder structure AME creates "can be exported directly to a connected P2 card, or it can be exported to a selected drive and the folders and files copied over to the card."
One possibility might be to split up the files into shorter videos, but I'm not sure how AME would handle ordering on the card.
Thanks
David

I wanted to mention, in case anybody else has this issue, installing and using Media Encoder CS6 produces P2 MXF files that are the proper size. I filed a bug report, hopefully Adobe can get the CC version fixed.

I can transcode my AVCHD files to DNxHD in Media Encoder, but when I ingest through Prelude, Media Encoder Fails.

I am instructing students working on longer form projects to transcode their AVCHD material to Quicktime using the DNxHD codec (which is installed, and then preset loaded into Media Encoder).
I am doing this since it is the suggested workflow in this article:
Audio and Video glitches | AVCHD footage
It worked great last year in CS6, but this workflow is not working at all in CC2014.
When I transcode directly through Media Encoder, the process works fine, but if I ingest using Prelude (where students choose which files to transcode, set destination, etc) the transcoding fails and we get an AME error. Not sure why this would be any different than transcoding right into Media Encoder...
We are working on PCs running Windows 7.
Any suggestions?
Thank you!

Sally Powell wrote:
When I transcode directly through Media Encoder, the process works fine, but if I ingest using Prelude (where students choose which files to transcode, set destination, etc) the transcoding fails and we get an AME error.
Hi Sally,
Could you please post a screen shot of the AME error you are getting? And as Michael asked, could you also let us know which preset are you using?
Thanks,
Ramesh.

CS4 Media Encoder Crash after rendering - two files, help?

I'm not a professional so I would appreciate any advice you can offer. I was encoding a WMV HD video (edited in Premiere Pro from CS4) that was just under 2 hours long. On an i7-920 with 9GB of RAM, it took just over 16 hours. At the end of the encoding, the Media Encoder bar displayed 0:00:00 time left. But it then froze at that point for about 30 minutes. Then the program crashed. I planned to take these WMV files and put them, via Encore, onto a dual-layer DVD with a few other special feature-related videos.
I now have two versions of the file in the destination folder, one that has the title I gave it and another that has a "._00_" before the title. Both files are .wmv files and the one with the normal name is 6.64 GB whereas the one with the ._00_ before the name is 6.60 GB. Both have problems if I try to play them beyond the 60% or so point.
Is there a way to salvage these files without another 16 hour render?
How long should I expect, on a normal/successful render, for Media Encoder to continue to process the file after the countdown reaches 0:00:00?
Thanks. Any advice for this very untrained editor would be appreciated.

On the topic of opening a project on the exact same version of Premiere Pro CC 2014 (yes it is definitely up to date, and the 2014 version), to overcome this export crash problem that ZachHinchy has brought up - you can't. Technically speaking, one should easily be able to open a Premiere Pro CC 2014 project from one system on another system running the exact same up to date, legitimate version of Premiere Pro CC 2014 without any kind of error. But for some reason, this has been disallowed(?) by Adobe. It has facepalm written all over it. Does anyone agree that this is at least a little bit silly?
I have tried exporting a Final Cut Pro XML from my project to try and open the sequence at uni on a Mac, so I can render my project when I finish my edit. It half works - the clips are there, but the sequence is gone - i.e. 12 hours of painstaking sequencing and micro-edits that had me at several points in time wanting to insert my hand through my monitor with enough force to make a large hole. I really cannot afford redo this sequence, as my assignment is due tomorrow, and I have to work at 6 oclock in the morning, so I also cannot afford to stay up till the early hours of tomorrow morning. Wish me luck that some miraculous event has taken place overnight that will somehow allow me to just open my project, on the same version of Premiere, on a Mac, without hassle. (Apple OS is not friendly to anything but its own selfish nature, so I am having doubts).
Adobe please, if you can do anything at all to help, you will save my assignment, and my faith will be restored. Otherwise, I'll just get my money back and buy Final Cut instead.
I cant even
If I find a way to fix either of these problems, I will post straight away.

Media Encoder CC 2014.0.1 error on install: I can't unpack the downloaded files (translation).

I have troubles with the latest update of Media Encoder CC (2014). I get an error which says: I can't unpack the downloaded files (translated from Dutch). Please try again. I try again, but it don't help. I have a MacPro early 2008 with Mavericks.
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Moderator moved thread from Premiere Pro forum to AME, and trimmed the title.

Looks like one component in Media Encoder is either missing or corrupted somehow.
Could you uninstall Adobe Media Encoder CC 2014 and please make sure all files are deleted after uninstall? Then, please try re-installing it.

Media Encoder CC 2014 Exports larger file than Media Encoder CC with same settings

We like to deliver final exports to most of our clients with the following settings:
Format: Quicktime
Codec: H.264
Quality: 100
1920x1080, 23.976, progressive, square pixels
use maximum render quality
audio: uncompressed, 48khz, stereo, 16 bit, single track
When I used to export a ~5 minute video using these settings with Premiere or Media Encoder CC (7.2.2.29), I would get a file ~1GB. If I export a ~5 minute video using these settings in Premiere or Media Encoder CC 2014 (8.0.1.48), the result is ~ 4GB.
Any thoughts on why this might be? I assume it's a user error but I can't nail down what it is.
Thanks for your help!

Hi matthewrichie88,
I used the same settings that you have mentioned above on a Windows 7 computer and got the same file size with both versions of Media Encoder. Please specify if you have a Mac or a Windows and which OS exactly? It would really help if you can post screenshots of your export settings with both versions. Give more details about the source files as well.
Thanks!
Rameez

Can't create any files beside AVI in Media encoder CC 7.2.2.29 (64 bit)

Hi there,
I have a recent problem with media encoder. when ever I export media from Premiere CC to Media encoder and send it to queue (as I usually do) it seems that I cant export it to any format beside lossless AVI.
If I choose for instance H264 match source - high bitrate or WMV , after I send it to queue I see that it export the file in AVI format and not as I asked.
I'ts a new problem and I can't recall that I've made any changes in my PC.
I uninstall and re install Premiere but with no help.
any suggestions will be appreciated.
Thanks
Rami

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Mac OS 10.7 and Premiere Pro CS5 not reading AVI and DV files, not rendering to Media Encoder

Hi Folks,
I've been wrestling with these problems since I bought my Macbook Pro running Lion (currently v10.7.3). I've had video editing and DVD authoring workflows that have worked perfectly for both CS3 and CS4 with Premiere Pro and Encore. I used to be able to import DV and AVI files and render timelines to Adobe Media Encoder so I can make DVD projects in Encore but it seems there are a lot of broken bits and pieces either with 10.7 or with CS5 or both. I've tired creating new projects or re-editing CS4 Premiere Pro projects that I can still edit with CS4 on my old Macbook Pro with 10.6.8. In fact I've given up on CS5 and I've gone back to my old laptop to edit. My problems with CS5/5.5 are:
1     Can't import DV files - error message saying this is an unsupported format
2     Can't import AVI files - error message saying this is an unsupported format
3     When I export media and try to use Adobe Media Encoder (AME) the render queue doesn't respond to the files being sent from Premiere Pro (PPro). I have to render the files one at a time from within PPro. I have no idea where the queued files go but even if I have AME open it doesn't respond. In CS4 AME would open automatically and wait until I told it to render the files.
4     In Encore I've had trouble burning to DVD. I have to make an ISO file and then burn that using Toast. I'n not particularly fussed about this but while I'm unloading I may as well give you the full picture.
Basically I'm really hating this vcersion of CS5/Mac OS. Lion is like using Vista from what I can tell. On my PCs I went from XP to Windows 7 so I kinda avoided all that pain it it seems the computer gods are smiting good and proper now. I don't care whose fault it is I want Apple and Adobe to fix it or if some kind soul can share their experiences and hopefully how they fixed it I'd be eternally grateful until the next upgrade totally blindsides us all.
Thank you in anticipation --> Mal/Melboure/AU

Sorry for your troubles.
Pr 5.5.2 is still a bit persnickety for me on 10.6.8, but overall, it's still faster than FCP7 and MC6, and overall pretty dependable. Imports and plays AVI files just fine.
Lion still isn't ready for prime time, from what I've seen. Like all Mac OS releases, it probably won't be until 10.7.6 or so. And that may never happen, becuase 10.8 is purported to be just around the corner.
So, my advice is, if possible, go back to what works, 10.6.8.

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