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Simon28852317rz18
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March 13, 2023

Adobe media encoder adding 1 frame to end of every MPEG export

  • March 13, 2023
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I am experiencing the following when exporting an MPEG file from Media Encoder (based on the H264 export preset). The file that is output always has an extra frame added to the end (displayed as black). So a 15 sec video becomes 15 secs and 1 frame.

 

If I deselect "export audio" inside the export settings the file exports without this extra frame.

 

I've seen a fair amount of discussion about a similar issue on Premiere Pro forums, but to be clear this happens without Premiere Pro involved. So it is something else.

 

I have exported an MPEG of the same file directly from Avid Media Composer and there is no extra frame at the end.

 

Does anyone have any thoughts on this one? And no it has nothing to do with export range before you start explaining about playhead position and in and out points. Even if I reduce the outpoint the new file will have an extra frame of black added.

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NJSS
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March 28, 2023

Does Avid see it even with the audio disabled? Is it still there, even if the system doesn't display it? 

This whole issue only revealed itself because I've been delivering assets to the Offline team (who are all on Avid). I went went back and compared my renders from AE to the encodes from ME. 

 

The last two films I was working on, they were  using Premeire, so no problem. 

My work around for now is encoding with offline stuff with Compressor. 

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Simon28852317rz18Author
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March 28, 2023

Although, of course that too could be the way QuickTime is decoding the file within Avid...

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Simon28852317rz18Author
Participant
March 28, 2023

Thanks for testing NJSS. I should say if I import the file into Avid Media Composer I do get that extra frame of black at the end. So it is definitely there...

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NJSS
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March 27, 2023

I have the same issue and contacted support about it. Interestingly, the black frame is not there when I import the encoded MP4 back into either AE or Premiere (or VLC). From what I can tell, it's something that Quicktime (on macOS at least) is seeing. I tried encoding with some other apps and the black wasn't present, so it's definitely something particular about the encode from Media Encoder that's tripping up the Quicktime framework.  

 

I just tried your suggestion of turning off audio and it worked! I think that puts the ball back in Adobe's court. 

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