Adobe Media Encoder

I am not asking for AV1 to replace intraframe editing codecs, but basic decode/import support is long overdue and would immediately improve real-world workflows for a large portion of your user base.Please prioritize adding native AV1 support to Premiere Pro. It is a modern standard, and its absence in 2026 is increasingly difficult to justify.

I'm being pushed more and more into Davinci Resolve due to Adobe's inability to compete and stay up to date and keep us in their walled garden. We need AV1 support. Intel and Nvidia have had hardware AV1 encoding support for quite some time now. If I need to use AV1, I have to export as prores, then convert to AV1, doubling the export time. I shoot long videos, between 1-3 hours in length, and converting takes an insame amount of time. The filesize and quality AV1 provides is crucial so some of my workflows. 

Right now there's no way to know a render is done without sitting at my computer watching the progress bar. Since renders can take anywhere from a few minutes to several hours, I'd love a push notification to the Creative Cloud mobile app when an export completes so I can step away from my desk and get pinged the moment it's ready.Ideally the notification would tell whether the render succeeded or failed and include the file name and total render time. A simple toggle in preferences to turn it on or off would be perfect.

There is a critical bug in the Premiere Pro / Media Encoder API (app.encoder) where attempting to programmatically queue a sequence using an HEVC (H.265) preset fails entirely. While the API seamlessly processes H.264, ProRes, and WAV presets, passing an HEVC preset results in a silent failure—Media Encoder simply drops the request without adding the item to the queue or returning an error code.Scope of ImpactThis is not an isolated plugin issue. This API defect completely breaks the core functionality of major industry-standard automation extensions, including: Excalibur (by Knights of the Editing Table) RenderSegments Blinkl.io Any workflow or custom JSX script utilizing the Adobe API to automate exports to HEVC is currently non-functional.The Inefficient WorkaroundCurrently, editors are forced to use a highly disruptive workaround: Trigger the scripted export using an H.264 or ProRes preset to successfully force the item into the Media Encoder queue. Manually select the queued

Hello Adobe Team,I would love to suggest adding a built-in LTC timecode embedding feature to Adobe Media Encoder, similar to the functionality offered by Tentacle Timecode Tool.It would be extremely useful to have the ability to automatically detect and embed LTC timecode directly into video files during the encoding process inside Media Encoder. This would simplify post-production workflows, save time, and reduce the need for external software.For professionals working with multi-camera productions and audio synchronization, this feature would be a huge improvement to the Adobe ecosystem.Thank you for considering this feature request.Best regards,Mario Ponce

Dear Adobe,Media Encoder is called Media Encoder, not Media Encoder But Only If You Don’t Need Professional Image Sequence Naming.Please add advanced filename token support for image sequences:[####], ####, %04d, {frame:04}Expected output:SHOT010_KING.0001.pngSHOT010_KING.0002.pngCurrent goblin output:SHOT010_KING.[####]01.pngThis breaks pipeline cleanliness, batch workflows, farm handoffs, conform logic, and the sanity of anyone who has ever touched a render queue.Suggested fix:Add a preference called:Enable advanced image sequence filename tokensHide it under Advanced if you must. Put a skull icon next to it. Make us sign a waiver. But please let professional users name frames like professional users.Respectfully,Every TD, compositor, editor, and sleep-deprived human exporting PNG sequences

It would be very helpful to have a keyboard shortcut which clears the media cache of Media Encoder. I often have to clear the cache for changes made in After Effects to be reflected in Media Encoder. As of now the only way I can see to do this is from the menu or in Finder.It’s not a huge deal but it would remove a few extra steps which I’m doing multiple times a day.Thanks!

It would be nice for Adobe Media Encoder to have naming tokens just like within the After Effects Renderer, for example when exporting a composition named [projectName]-[width]x[height]-[YYYY-MM-DD] it will automatically name your export to the project name + size of the composition + the render date.

I would like to append a custom name to the end or beginning of a file name on export. Yes, I know you can select an option saying "Append preset name to filename on export", but I don't need this all the time. It would be much simpler if this was an option that is chosen within the preset itself. This would create much more flexibility when exporting.

Hi,   I am trying to use a watch folder to export out hundreds of proxies during a shoot day.   The workflow is like this:   Action filmed -> Copied off camera card to Hard drive -> *Hard drive folder will be a designated "Watch folder"* -> AME will be auto encoder this raw footage to a proxy preset that will live locally on the comp for quick edits during the shoot.This all works amazingly well, however when i copy over multiple clips into the Watch folder, AME encodes them, then places each "source" clip, into its our folder. Please see screenshot below     Is there any way to change it so that they all dont appear in their own subfolder?   Many thanks!     [Moderator note: moved to proper forum.]

Watch folders should be able to also watch and encode from subfolders. Having all footage in one folder or having to create multiple watch folders is very inefficient and impractical when dealing with a lot of footage.I would also like to be able to use Media Encoder to automatically render small HEVC backup files of all new footage to be sent to offsite backup. Setting my whole video project directory as a watch folder with subfolders would allow this; the output folder would be easy to back up.

Please add "Match Crop" to video output settings next to "match source"AND DISPLAY the current crop dimensions, currently you can only see them WHILE cropping and have to memorize themI just want to draw the crop and render everything inside of it, not sure how scaling or aspect ratio relates currently after drawing the crop, the output preview still shows it uncropped, there is no button to apply or reset it so then you have to use settings to manually adjust the output framing so i'm not sure why "crop" exists as is, its seems weird but I may be missing something

Now that the mobile Creative Cloud app is gone, is there any way to get Media Encoder to send a notification to your phone when all items have finished encoding? Bizarrely, the desktop app still has a settings panel for Notifications and instructs you to "download the Creative Cloud mobile app". Thanks.

I would like to submit a feature request for Adobe Media Encoder related to frame sizing and layout control.Currently, Media Encoder allows users to crop and scale source footage to fit an output frame, but it does not provide a way to scale footage smaller than the output resolution and position it within the output canvas (i.e., add padding or margins around the source).In many real-world delivery workflows, especially those involving mixed source resolutions, there is a need to: Shrink a source video inside a fixed output resolution Control its position on the canvas (centered or offset) Fill the remaining frame area with a defined background (black, color, or transparency) At present, achieving this requires routing assets through Premiere Pro or After Effects solely for layout purposes, even when no creative editing or compositing is otherwise needed. This adds unnecessary overhead for what is fundamentally a transcoding and formatting task—particularly in batch-processing env

Currently, it's near-impossible to get YouTube to understand and interpret an HDR video properly when exporting from Premiere/AME. I end up doing my final color and master export in Davinci, then upload to YouTube. It just works, every time. With Premiere, you have to tweak every setting, make sure everything is absolutely perfect, and use the "Include HDR10 Metadata" checkbox in AME, which disables the CUDA renderer and falls back to CPU. Most of my projects are 1-3 hours in length, so even on a 9950x3D, that can be over 24 hours on a complex project that would otherwise take a couple of hours on the 4090. Even with using the "Matroska Colour Metadata Ingestion Utility" to embed proper metadata, YouTube usually still won't accept the upload as HDR. 

It would be tremendous if some day MediaEncoder could do bulk AAF/OMF and XML/EDL exports. xo, L  

Live has never been this easy. Encode once, upload everywhere — all through Adobe Media Encoder. Efficiency unlocked. Done.

The "Encoding" panel shows Elapsed time and Remaining time, which is very helpful.  But there is extra dead space in that area which could be put to use to show additional information.  In particular:"Current Timecode" - sometimes I spot an error (such as Missing Media) during an export, or experience a hang or crash, and having the exact timecode displayed on the screen would help with quickly finding & fixing root problems."Current FPS" - the rendering speed averaged over, say, the last 5 seconds."Avg. FPS" - the rendering speed averaged over the encoding process thus far. This kind of data would also help with finding slow-rendering shots so they can be investigated for ways to optimize the editing/compositing to improve future render times. Example: 

Dear AME Community, as we approach the end of the year, the Adobe Media Enocder Team wants to express its gratitude to everyone who has contributed to the Adobe Media Encoder Forum this year. Software development is a journey, and your feedback is our compass. To every user who took the time to write a detailed bug report, share a log file, or explain a specific use case – thank you. Your detailed reports are critical in helping the engineering teams identify and squash bugs. A special thanks as well to our Community Experts who tirelessly monitor these threads to ensure our voices are heard. Here’s to a 2026 full of faster exports and smoother workflows. Happy Holidays! Best regards,Ecki (Adobe Media Encoder Team)

Ae is using project folders AME by default will export into those folders. Whereas the export from Pr --> AME uses the last location that has been set. This is a feature request to have an optional checkbox to set up the destiantion path from Pr --> AME next to the Pr project(thanks ChWard) 

While sending files from After Effects to AME (File>Export>Add to AME render queue), the default outputpath for the file is in the actual projectfolder. While sending from Premiere, the defoult path is somewhere from an verry old project. I prefere the way Ae it is doingIs ther a way to change that?

Add XAVC LongGOP support (422/10BPP) for DCI 4K (as for UHD 3840) - MainConcept supports it already but no plugin option exists.  The larger Intra codec is fine for some purposed but not all.  Going out to other tools for delivery when the LongGOP is needed at DCI  isn't ideal. 

Hiya.  Been using Adobe since the very beginning.  Man things take a long time to happen on the development front.Here's what I want to do.  We have a CLOSED broadcast System...very limited firewall access to the WWW.I've just setup a workstation just as a render machine.  5 Team members can save a copy of their their AE projects to Designated watch folders, and it renders and delivers the files where they are needed.  Added to studio, loaded onto the server...it's great and FAST!Problem is, only I get the notifications when renders finish, fail, or whatever...as I'm the one logged into my account on the cloud.Ideally, I'd love for the senders of the files can get notifications via CC.  THis would require USER metadata being embedded in the file header I imagine...but it sounds feasable.Alternativeley, Happy for everyone in the team to get the notifications.  Can I add users to the notifications section in the media encoder setup.  I can turn the

I would love a text display in Media Encoder to show how many files are in the queue and how many are complete. This could be a preference you can turn on and off in Encoder. This would be immensely helpful when rendering large amounts of files - like when creating proxy files within Premiere Pro. There is currently no way that I know of to check how many files are in the queue and I would use this function to double check I have every file accounted for.

When exporting multiple files, we can batch change the file location but not the file names.When having multiple exports for different resolutions or ratios, dynamic naming using placehoders would be great. This could be possible by using placeholders directly in the sequence name (e.g. Sequence-1_%SeqName%) which gets replaces on export (maybe also through a command "replace wildcards in project") or during export with naming presets that can be applied.On naming conflicts, these exports could be grayed out with a warning symbol, still allowing manual changes. Placeholders that would be great are: Sequence nameResolutionAspect RatioFrame rateFrame count/Durationany (custom) Metadata fieldCustom prefix/suffix Especially batch exports would benefit from this.