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February 4, 2021
Question

If I turn off my screen Media encoder stops rendering

  • February 4, 2021
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I realised this today.

 

It's not the first time this happened to me.

I had to leave the PC to render overnight. Project from AE. (besides all renders in ME are painfully slow, for example if I put same source files into Premierepro and export directly from there it takes fraction of the time )So I started exporting. estamined time was 7 hours. When I was leaving the PC 4 hours passed, 3 hour left. I turned off screen and left.In the morning ( about 8 hours later)  after turning on the screen I noticed that export time got stuck. 4hours passed, but estamined time was now 10 and half hours... Just afterwards the progress bar and passed time started to move again.

( my media server has power options set to never go to sleep, never turn on screensaver, all power savings are turned off)

 

I'm used to render a lot overnight ( not just video )  and this ( and slows renders from ME in general ) it's really annoying.

 

Does someone experience a similar issue? is there any solution?  

 

5 replies

Participant
March 18, 2024

I do have the same issue on Windows 10. I assume I do not need to give all the specs as many people have reported something similar on a multiple specs. Was there ever a resolution found in a separate thread maybe?

EckiAME
Community Manager
Community Manager
March 26, 2024

I just tried it on my Mac. And it worked as expected. This is why we need your specs.

KWStrick
Known Participant
September 19, 2023

Adding to the list here.  Simply compressing mp4's in AME; adaptive high bit rate, 2-pass.  On a mac, I turned off my display (Ctrl+Shift+Esc), left for the night, came back the next day and it was crawling.  I noticed it was on Mercury Playback Engine Software Only.  I switched it to GPU Acceleration (Metal) so we'll see if that makes it go faster, if at all.

Adobe Media Encoder 23.6 (Build 62)

iMac Pro 2017

2.5 GHz 14-Core Intel Xeon W

Radeon pro Vega 64 16GB

64 GB 2666 MHz DDR4

Ventura 13.5.2

Participant
November 6, 2022

Same expierence here: RTX 3070 Ryzen 5700x NVME and SATA Drives both with plently of storage Mercury Playback Engine GPU acceleration ( CUDA). Output to 1080p 60fps 4min Video and we currently at 3hours Elapsed 14hrs remaining after i left to the gym and the time remaining went from 3hours to 14hours with no progress during my time away.

Participant
July 27, 2021

Same experience here. Mac Big Sur, AME 2021 (15.4). If I set a render to go, then turn off my monitor, it doesn't proceed with the output. 

Shivangi_Gupta
Community Manager
Community Manager
February 4, 2021

Hi there,

This sounds strange. Ideally, Premiere Pro and AME use the same renderer for exporting.

 

We're here to help.

Thanks,

Shivangi

Marek5FF4Author
Participant
February 4, 2021

Hi,

PC specs are Win10pro 64bit. ryzen2700x. gtx1080ti. 32GB ddr4, NVME+SATA ssd discs.

renderer was Mercury Playback Engine GPU acceleration ( CUDA). output to FHD30p h264 mp4. 3Mb/s bitrate

video length +-12min   render time +-10hours...  source is one png image and one mp4 video with keyed out green from AE

 

render times AME gives me lately are out of hand. 

 

I tried to render som footage with alpha ( hap codec, from 4k30p source to FHD30p output. 15min video) with i9/32GB/rtx3090 in work. and it took 5+hours.