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Inspiring
November 27, 2024

Media Ecoder won't write to andy hard drives or ssds

  • November 27, 2024
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Adobe Media Encoder ( Version 25.0 Build 54) appears to be writing exclusively to RAM rather than to any of my drives.

With 128 GB of RAM, I encounter crashes during the export of large projects as Media Encoder fills the RAM to capacity. Monitoring drive activity reveals high levels of read activity but no corresponding write activity. Towards the end of some of the exports that are being rendered , I noticed very high write speeds from Media Ecoder on any of the SSDs I try to write to but the ram values don't go down and the containers are never closed.  My SSDs are more than capable at writing at speeds much faster than the program can render at.  Why can’t Adobe's software just work? 

 

 

 

Windows 10 Pro 64bit - 22H2  OS Build 19045.5198

AMD 2950x 

128GB Ram at 2667mhz

3x 2TB Samsung 970 NVMe , Scratch, Cache, OS 

2x Nvidia 2080 Super

Nvidia Studio Driver Version 566.14

 

 

 

6 replies

Inspiring
December 4, 2024

My projects involve multi-camera setups using three cameras. The source files are in ProRes format within an MOV container. I export them in H.264 format using the YouTube 4K preset. The sequence includes title graphics and an adjustment layers for Sharpness Lumetri Color grading.

 

ChWard
Community Manager
Community Manager
December 3, 2024

Hi

Do you use "Native Sequence Import" in AME (under Preferences)?

Could you give us more details on the projects you want to export (length, codecs, plug ins, motion graphics)? How much memory do you allocate for AME (also visible in the Prefs)? 

Inspiring
December 2, 2024

I send my projects from premiere pro to media encoder.  "Export, send to media encoder" 

EckiAME
Community Manager
Community Manager
December 2, 2024

Do you send over projects from Premiere Pro? Do you encode directly in AME?

Inspiring
November 28, 2024

1.2TB free on my system drive and the system drive is an NVMe drive. In the past I've had less space and never had this issue so obviously it's a new bug that Adobe introuduced to Media Encoder. 

EckiAME
Community Manager
Community Manager
November 28, 2024

How much space do you have on your internal system drive? This is where the swapping would happen.