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November 10, 2025

Encoding real slow in 26.0

  • November 10, 2025
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Anyone experiencing Media Encoder 26.0 running extremely slow and only using a small percentage of their GPUs?

    Pinned Reply By jamieclarke

    Hi ​@jeses649698 - There is a bug in AME version 26.2.0 build 12 and later on windows, where the renderer is stuck on “Software Rendering” the team is aware and working on a fix.

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    FlyingFourFun
    Inspiring
    February 11, 2026

    YEAH!  Build 21 Seems to correct the GPU acceleration for Media Encoder, but I am doign some testing to confirm further:

     

     

     

     

    ThisSoftwareisAwful
    Participant
    February 11, 2026

    No Disrespect for the employees whom I’m sure are beyond overworked and being blamed for this. But what in the world makes you think its ok to push out completely non functional software and use us as your quality assurance testers? When did we move from customers to becoming employees? I work on weekly shows that have 24 hour turn arounds and extremely tight workflows that require consistency with very little wiggle room and this is costing me hours upon hours. What am I even paying for? 

     

    Again, To the hard working people and engineers that work on this stuff, I’m sure you have been ringing the bell and saying “it’s not ready yet” and some shareholder minded dinosaur has been forcing to to push your teams harder, but this is so beyond unacceptable. Stop trying to force AI down my throat and just let me use the software!

    FlyingFourFun
    Inspiring
    February 10, 2026

    Build 20 - no charges, ME still doesn't use GP…..

    @Adobe Staff - any indication of when this bug can be corrected, and what build should I start paying attention to ?

     

    Known Participant
    February 9, 2026

    Probably be better if you didn't roll out a new version every single year. The decline in overall software quality has been getting steadily worse since Adobe decided this was a clever move. 

    FlyingFourFun
    Inspiring
    February 9, 2026

    Still not fixed in in Build 19….

     

    FlyingFourFun
    Inspiring
    February 8, 2026

    Build 18, still hasn't solved the issue……..

     

    FlyingFourFun
    Inspiring
    February 7, 2026

    Another Update to ME to Build 17, the ‘software render’ is now blank from the Render dialog, and the selection box cannot be used to change it.

    A test confirms there is no GPU involvement still with any ME processing, its all on the CPU.

     

     

     

     

    FlyingFourFun
    Inspiring
    February 6, 2026

    No improvement or correct in the latest Build 16 version…..   Any idea of when the fix for ME is coming?

     

     

    jamieclarke
    Community Manager
    Community Manager
    February 3, 2026

    Hi ​@jeses649698 - There is a bug in AME version 26.2.0 build 12 and later on windows, where the renderer is stuck on “Software Rendering” the team is aware and working on a fix.

    FlyingFourFun
    Inspiring
    February 4, 2026

    @jamieclarke thank you so much for confirming the issue, and the team is addressing it.  I thought I was going nuts, especially after seeing ​@jeses649698 response that he was seeing the same render time.  I look forward to getting the update.

     

    As a side note, are there any special conditions for when this happens?  such as a specific GPU, or CPU? or just across all configs kind of situation.  

    jeses649698
    Participant
    February 3, 2026

    I just did 2 renders one with effects and the other one with nothing and it took the same time (1:45:00)