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Zachary29825943vx85
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April 10, 2026
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How to add naming convention for all exports from a single Media Encoder preset?

  • April 10, 2026
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Hello! I’m making a bunch of proxies in media encoder, and I’m doing by selecting the original media in the Media Encoder media browser, importing it to the queue, and it’s set to my preferred preset already. 

 

I’m going to hot swap these proxies with some previous incorrectly made proxies, so I want their output names to be the same as the original media plus the suffix “_Proxy”

 

Looking in Media Encoder and online, I have not been able to find a way to make the output name for all those videos the same. They automatically generate as “Original Media Name_1” and set to save by the original media. I change each clip manually to have “_Proxy” instead of “_1” and set it to the right place to save. Is there anyway to include that output suffix and save location with the preset? Or am I stuck doing it one by one?

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    EckiAME
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    EckiAMECommunity Manager
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    April 20, 2026

    Do you try to generate Proxies? If you do that in Premiere Pro using AME, they should be properly renamed. What exactly are you trying to accomplish?

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    Zachary29825943vx85Author
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    April 20, 2026

    I’ve since already done this all manually, but it seemed each time when I made the proxies from Premiere I could not assign my custom preset (with SDR conversion effect). So while it would have the right suffix and location selected for all of them, I could only chose basic proxy settings of pixel resolution

    EckiAME
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    EckiAMECommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    April 22, 2026

    You can actually combine both — the SDR conversion and the _Proxy naming — in one workflow:

    1. In AME, duplicate a Proxy-compatible preset (H.264 or ProRes Proxy/LT), open Export Settings, go to the Effectstab, and add your SDR Conform effect. Save the preset.
    2. In Premiere Pro, select your clips → right-click → Proxy > Create Proxies.
    3. In the dialog, click Add Ingest Preset and load your custom AME preset.
    4. Set the proxy destination and hit OK.

    Premiere will render the proxies through AME with your SDR effect applied and automatically name them OriginalName_Proxy.ext, properly attached to the source clips.

    Two things to check if your custom preset doesn't show up in the proxy dialog:

    • The base format must be proxy-compatible (H.264, ProRes Proxy/LT, CineForm, or QuickTime) — other formats are filtered out.
    • Make sure you're on a reasonably current version of Premiere/AME (24.x or later); the custom-preset option in the proxy dialog was flaky in older builds.

    If the format is right, this does everything in one pass — no manual renaming needed.

    LMK if this works for you.

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