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Aug 3, 2026 11:12 AM UTC
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Media Encoder Uses Proxies in Render

When I send a render to Media Encoder, it will encode the video using proxies instead of my high resolution media despite the option in media encoder not being checked. All of my footage is properly linked. I can enable/disable proxies in premiere pro and the watermark appears/disappears. The only way I can get it to behave is by disabling proxies in premiere pro first, and then sending the render to Media Encoder, which I’ve never had to do and is not the expected behavior. This has burned me several times on very long renders with short deadlines. Proxies seem to work as expected when I render directly from Premiere Pro.

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    Michael2345
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    Oct 17, 2026 7:43 AM UTC

    Two months and an update later and Media Encoder is still doing this. To any Adobe employees out there, Media Encoder is incredibly useful for rendering a queue of sequences at once and shutting down when the queue has completed. If the renders incorrectly use the proxy, all that rendering time is down the drain. Now the only way I can guarantee my renders look right is to render each sequence individually in Premiere Pro. This needs a fix.

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    Participant
    Sep 1, 2026 10:06 AM UTC

    Same for me, Media Encoder is broken.

    Toggling proxy off in Premiere before exporting to Media Encoder seems to work

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