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September 24, 2025

Media Encoder 25.1 Green Screen Artifacts with Scale Operations

  • September 24, 2025
  • 3 replies
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App Version: Adobe Media Encoder 25.1 Platform: Windows 10/11 64-bit
System: Intel Xeon W-2265, NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000, 64GB RAM

Basic Steps to Reproduce:

  1. Create Premiere Pro project with video requiring scale operations
  2. Send to Media Encoder via workflow extension
  3. Export with H.264/ProRes settings
  4. Random green screen artifacts appear in exported video

Expected Result: Clean video export without visual artifacts Actual Result: Intermittent green screen flashes (few frames to 10 seconds duration)

Additional Info:

  • Problem affects 7 identical production workstations
  • Issue occurs ONLY with scaled video content
  • Direct Premiere Pro export works perfectly (no artifacts)
  • Frequency: 2-3 occurrences per week across all stations
  • Hardware acceleration already disabled in preferences

Troubleshooting Completed:

  • Disabled H264/HEVC hardware encoding/decoding
  • Set Mercury Playback Engine to Software Only
  • Cleared media cache and reset warnings
  • Changed timeline base from 29.97fps to 25fps
  • Problem persists across all identical systems

Business Impact: Critical broadcast production workflow affected, causing delays and potential on-air quality issues.

GPU Driver: NVIDIA Studio 576.80 (considering update to 577.00)

Anyone experienced similar green screen issues in Media Encoder 25.1 with scale operations? Successful workarounds appreciated.

Topics: (pasirinkite iš sąrašo)

  • Performance
  • Error or problem
  • Export or render
  • Hardware or GPU

3 replies

EckiAME
Community Manager
Community Manager
October 1, 2025

So the question then is: did you upgrade any system software, component drivers or security software?

LTN 1&2Author
Participant
September 25, 2025

Thanks for the response.

We cannot upgrade to newer versions because we use GV Stratus Extensions for our workflow, and version 25.5 breaks this integration completely - media no longer transfers from Premiere to Media Encoder.

We're stuck with 25.1 (works with Stratus but has green screen bug) vs 25.5 (presumably fixes bug but breaks our essential workflow automation).

EckiAME
Community Manager
Community Manager
September 25, 2025

Did you try in newer versions? Can you share a project for us to tool into the issue? I can private message you the instructions in this User Forum.