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rachelcenter
Legend
January 20, 2024

When I queue something in media encoder it just sits there forever and doesnt do anything

  • January 20, 2024
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When I'm in Premiere and I queue something in media encoder it just sits there forever and doesnt do anything. I wrote to Adobe months ago about this. They told me: "Open media encoder, and go to settings or preferences and uncheck 'import sequence natively'.  Quit encoder and re open it. Now go back to premiere, hit export and press queue in encoder and it should work." It's not working.  in the time that I'm waiting for it to do anything or make any movement I could've already been 5 to 10 minutes deep into my export. It's a 16 minute sequence. I'm trying to have media encoder use the vimeo 1080 preset (which I change to 720). if I want to export the normal way without media encoder, premiere is saying the export will be 44 minutes long. I dont want to sit here for 44 minutes while premiere is locked up in an export. I could be color correcting shots while it runs throug encoder, if encoder would work. This is an ongoing reoccuring issue.

Update: I tried a different experiment. This time with a totally different project, totally different external hard drive. This project I'm testing is only 30 seconds long and its on a Sandisk 4TB Extreme Portable SSD. It took about 2-3 minutes but after that it started encoding in Media Encoder. Which tells me that the issue might have to do with Premiere Encoder struggling to encode 13 minutes worth of 4k footage on a non ssd drive.

 

 

Media Encoder Version 24.1.1 (Build 2)
Mac OS Sonoma 14.12

Memory 64gb 2667 MHz DDR4

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22 replies

Participant
June 6, 2024

Is there a solution to this problem yet? I am currently experiencing the same issue. 

Bruce Bullis
Community Manager
Community Manager
January 22, 2024

re-opening, until we can determine why Rachel's system is unique]

rachelcenter
Legend
January 22, 2024

bruce can you please unpin and remove the "status fixed"?

rachelcenter
Legend
January 22, 2024

my 13 minute feature has been sitting in encoder for 5 minutes now, not moving. I even made sure to clear out any cancelled jobs out of the encoder queue and quit encoder and come back in fresh with nothing in the queue and try from scratch. it's still not moving. Do you want me to do a screen recording of this whole process that I can send to you privately?

rachelcenter
Legend
January 22, 2024

it's 1:25pm. thats the time I started the experiment. I saw 2 "loading" progress bars go across the bottom of the encoder screen and then disapear again. Now my timeline is just sitting there in the encoder queue not moving, not doing anything. no progress bar is moving. output preview is all gray. no signs of life. its now 1:26pm. I'll give it another 5 minutes but still no progress.

rachelcenter
Legend
January 22, 2024

I probably have markers on the timeline but i dont think i'm actively using them so let me go delete them from the timeline and try this experiment again

Kevin J. Monahan Jr.
Community Manager
Community Manager
January 22, 2024

Hi @rachelcenter,

Thanks for writing in. I also tried to reproduce the issue on a similar system but could not. Do you have any markers on the sequence you are exporting, by any chance? Let us know. I hope we can help you.

 

Thanks,

Kevin

Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community and Engagement Strategist – Adobe Pro Video and Audio
Bruce Bullis
Community Manager
Community Manager
January 22, 2024

First step to any fix, is being able to reproduce the behavior.
So far, we cannot; I've confirmed correct behavior in current shipping and beta PPro, on multiple machines. 
I'll ask our support staff to reach out, and try to determine what's going on with your system.

rachelcenter
Legend
January 22, 2024

still doesnt work. please let me know how to fix this.

rachelcenter
Legend
January 22, 2024

Ok I restarted. Bad news: one progress bar shot across the screen saying loading feature. then the progress bar disappeared. and now its just sitting there. experiment started at 10:57am. I'll give it 5 minutes to see if it moves, but so far, its just sitting there in the queue NOT encoding.