Adobe Media Encoder

Hi, I was wondering why all my footage was noticeably lower in quality after using AE and exporting through AME... Now I just think its the process of rendering full stop. To test it I imported a 4k 100mbps file from my GH4 camera and exported it exactly as it originally was (4k h.264 100mbps). The result was a video similar in quality to my GH4's 720hd out-of-camera footage.... this means that Media Encoder reduced my 4k video so much in quality that it looks like a 720hd 10mbps video - a video 10 times smaller in file size and EIGHT times smaller in definition... Is it something I am doing wrong? I tried exporting to VP9 also but no difference at all. Would really appreciate some help! Thanks.

I've seen several older posts but I haven't found any solutions. We are trying to convert our recorded meetings from Adobe Connect to a format our staff can view offline, such as an MP4 or WMV. The downloaded file from Adobe Connect is an FLV. For some reason when we do the conversion using AME, the video is fine but there is no audio. When the FLV is imported it also shows as "No audio" in the Source field. I know the FLV has audio because I can use a 3rd party media player such as VLC and it plays fine, with audio. We are using Adobe Connect version 9.4.2 and AME CS6 version 6.0.3.1. Also I am aware there are 3rd party apps that can do this but we aren't allowed to use 3rd party apps. I am also aware there is a paid feature in Connect 9.4 and is included in Connect 9.5 but we will not be getting that anytime soon. Thanks.

This is one of the enduring doubts for most of us, especially for those that never worked inside a broadcast station (my case). The context is the same as (almost) always. I'm mastering two documentaries for television and both were recorded and edited in 23.976 and broadcasters in Brazil ask for a XDCAM 4:2:2 50Mbits 60i - Stereo 48Khz 24bits, a very clear description. AME has the preset, it is called XDCAM HD 50 NTSC 60i. So far so good.I've been tinkering with these matter and ended up with two possible workflows that render different results. Here they are:WORKFLOW 1:1. Export a MASTER with the native settings: 1920x1080 @ 23.976 on DNxHD 10bits, because the source files were 10 bits.2. Transcode the file to the XDCAM HD 50 NTSC 60i directly.The 3:2 pulldown works correctly but on the "2" I get this. On top of that, it plays jittery. I've been told that this happens because I'm playing it directly to my computer monitor, that this will not happen on broadcasting.WORKFLOW 2:1. Expor

Screenshot speaks for himself!Just simply adding from AE to ME. Its' darker ...or more contrast ...or gamma shifting...Tried everything:- nvidia DR 0-255 / 16-235- software / Mercure CUDA engine- in AE working space is "none"- in ME any codec, any settingsAdobe Media Encoder just makes a different look to the image! Any suggestions?But don't tell me that h264 changes colors... and some player issues... CAUSE IT'S OBVIOUSLY NOT THE CASE!ME renders that way! His own different way))

On a mac, as many of us have seen, when you export an mp4 for vimeo or youtube using the H264 codec, the results are awful. The files look flat and desaturated. All that time spent doing color correction only to have a pretty terrible result.We have been doing a lot of testing regarding this. Our exports look flat and lifeless. Did we need to use a LUT while exporting to compensate for this? What if we were then compensating for something that didn't look that way on other platforms?Turns out, its definitely an adobe media encoder problem.If you open your exported mp4 in a player like VLC. It looks fine. Same file in the quicktime player - awful. Well, anyone on a mac that is looking at youtube or vimeo sees the file like quicktime does - flat and lifeless from the gamma shift.I'm not sure exactly how its happening but the files that media encoder creates, either send information to quicktime causing it to gamma shift or, more likely, doesn't have information that other H264 files crea

Hey Community,my iMac crashed and I lost all rendered out video files somehow.Is there a way to re-do the rendering from some kind of render library?Thanks in advance! 😃Timon

Bonjour, j'essaye de faire un rendu d'une video de 4 minutes sur AME mais le rendu dure 7 heures...Mon CPU n'est meme pas à 100% il reste à 20% alors que c'est un i7-6700k et en tant que GPU : geforce 1080J'ai besoin de votre aide ! Merci beaucoup

How to solve the export video when prompted error: Frame dimension not supported. Please check that both width/height valuse are within limits.

Hi,I am looking for some IVTC settings to reverse telecine a film, I've tried the simple solution of changing the frame rate from 29.97 to 23.976, but am still getting duplicate frames and dropping good frames. Is there anyone who has good experience in Media Encoder that could shed some light on some settings to properly IVTC?Thanks,Matt

I sent a client a 30-minute video I produced in Premiere/Adobe Media Encoder and it does not play. Client tried it in Windows Media Player and VLC Player on a Windows 10 computer. I used the Windows Media Player codec HD 1080p 29.97 preset. Video plays perfectly on my computer, but not on my client's computer. I have also had similar issues in the past when using the H.264 output preset. Seems no matter what I do, my videos will not play on my customer's PC or Mac.I need to know what is the preferred output when making videos to be played on a computer. Is there not a universal format that will play reliably?

Hi-I am working with 2K source material which is 10bit linear DPX, and am looking to export back out to the same color space.I have made a pretty careful study of the DPX export settings. Is there any way to know if my export is linear or log? Or to specify it in AME? MediaInfo confirms that the source material is indeed linear. When I inspect the 10bit DPX output file with MediaInfo, it doesn't say either way (linear or log), and would like to have some confirmation that I am hitting my customer's spec.Thanks-- John

Hi there,I will highly appreciate if somebody can give an answer of my issue. I have a Trapcode composition in HD which contains some audio-reactive visuals and a grunge background. I have created this in 30 and 60 fps and export as PNG sequence and Quicktime MOV.When I tried to encode it for Vimeo or with just a Custom H.264 preset I received a very weird result. The first one second of the video is fine but after that I have a mass drop in quality so everything goes pixelated. I tried to change the bitrate and level and set them to the highest values. Than I received an excellent quality in approximately 9 GB. No chance to upload anywhere.I have the same issue on 2 different machines. Still cannot figure out the problem. I see that it is something about the bitrate but how can I get the good quality in a smaller file size.Thank you in advance!Anna

Dear all Tech Boffs and Problem solvers collective,I have a curious question on; when I import a Premiere Pro CC sequence into Media Encoder, which has more than 2 channels of audio. It fails to export.This works fine when i export from Premiere directly. However the opposite when done in ME.What i'm trying to export is a ProRes 4444 with 6 channel stereo output via Media Encoder, using a Premiere Pro sequence of an edit.I have done experiments with 2 channels of audio, which has been absolutely fine.I did a quick test whereby i tried it with picture and audio selected (Which failed) than without audio (Which worked).Thus the conclusion has to be audio output conflict!I have also gone into forums which suggested other options, which didn't work either.We work on a Mac, so Nvidia firmware updates are not the issue as we use ATI graphics card and Black-magic video card.This was the error message that is getting logged below. However it has been discussed that its a generic message rather

HiI'm new to Adobe Media Encoder, and have been getting great results with the free Wraptor DCP plug-in.Video is exported from Avid MC as PRoRes HQ with video levels [64-960].Black backgrounds to titles look a bit washed out on our DCPs, so I'm wondering if I need to scale to dat levels on export for Wraptor?This is not necessary for mp4, mov etc as all the Mac players [VLC, QT, Mpeg streamclip] automatically scale to data levels.Thanks for any advice or infoNigel

Guten Tag,ich habe ein merkwürdiges Problem mit Adobe Encoder CC2015.2 Wenn ich versuche einen Clip (egal welcher Dateityp) in das Programm zu laden,bekomme ich folgende Fehlermeldung:Adobe Media Encoder Debug EventAdobe Media Encoder has encountered an error.[..\..\BatchItemGroup.cpp-431]Ich habe bereits alle Adobe Programme aktualisiert und bereits einige Beiträge in diversen Foren dazu gefunden, leider ohne Ergebnis. Auch die Kontaktierung beim Adobe Kundensupport blieb wie leider so oft ohne Ergebnis. Ich nutze Adobe Encoder gewerblich und bin darauf angewiesen das ich mit den Programmen arbeiten kann.Bitte Bitte Bitte, ich benötige Eure Hilfe !!!

is it possible to created animated gifs from After effects to Adobe Media Encoder CC2017?I don't see the option in the menu. I saw a tutorial on YouTube that shows the option, but that looks like an older version.

I've been using Premier Pro CC and Media encoder for several years Today suddenly I started getting a media off line message after exporting from PP to ME. The video is fine in PP but somehow it's showing up as off line in ME I've used this same video codec for years as well so I have no clue why the images and audio are not going to ME. I've tried reimporting the video into PP and also reimporting the video into the computer as well as starting a new PP project. It's driving me crazy.ThanksTed

New to AME so please pardon the question , how do I delete files from media encoder  ?Thanks

Hi, When setting up an FTP publish in a watchfolder I hit "Test" and then AME creates the following error:If I use the same credentials on FileZilla I don't get access issues.Any ideas please?

It would appear that Media Encoder is now applying a pretty aggressive black level shift to all footage rendered.  If I render to TIFF from After Effects from a 32 bit composition it looks perfect.  If I just send to Media Encoder and look at the preview, the preview "Source" and "Output" both are much much darker.  Anyone else seeing this?Simple solution, I think to myself, I'll just render out an uncompressed Animation Quicktime and load that into media encoder.  Same thing.  Big black level shift.  Has ME 2017 broken color consistency?

I have been trying to convert some small AVI files and cannot get audio to export.I have tried every codec, every setting combo, even every video format with zero success.I am on a Win7 64 bit machine:Intel Xenon Quad core processor16GB RAMNVIDIA High Def Audio card (drivers are up to date)Any thoughts, help, tips, recommended Sound Cards, whatever it takes, this is frustrating to the nth degree.I can do these conversions in Windows Movie Make just fine but there is no batch option (that I'm aware of) and Media Encoder used to handle these flawlessly.Help. Please!

Hi there,I'm editing 30 half hour or longer presentations and I want to find the quickest workflow for this...what would anyone suggest as the quickest/easiest way to export these?The last export was a custom one at:h.2641080p10,000 bitrateAnd it took absolutely forever... 6 hours plus in encoder.In FCPx there's a 'native' setting for exports (which although produces large files can then be batch transcoded in handbrake or similar) which is pretty fast to export. Is there something like this I could use on Premiere?Thanks!Jack

I have a specific client request to export an opening logo animation at 15,360 x 8,640. Although I cannot imagine 15k would show a difference to the naked eye when compared to 5k or even 8k, (which will in the end depend upon the projector they are using which I do not have the specs on) the client requested this format because it is being projected at an event.It appears as thought AME on all the codecs including QuickTime Animation, QuickTime Uncompressed, and a few others do not allow the Height of the frame to exceed 8,192 pixels. Odd as the maximum Width of the frame can go all the way up until 30,000 pixels!Ae rendering saves the day once again and allows me to export at the 15,360 x 8,640 which the client requested, but I am curious if anyone has encountered a work around when exporting large format files or if there is a spec sheet somewhere detailing the maximum frame size for various AME codecs?Thanks,Chris

Hi, I have come back to editing with Avid Media Composer after a break of some years and I am having a few issues importing material. I would like to encode my footage from MP4 to MXF op1a which Avid should accept. I am using the pre-set DNxHD for NLEs which looks like it uses the MXF container but I can't get Avid to recognise the files. I am using the most up to date version of Avid and Media Encoder. Any help would be most appreciated.Thanks!