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vfxmarc
vfxmarc
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June 11, 2026
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Can't change to Hardware rendering at Media Encoder

  • June 11, 2026
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When rendering a Premiere Pro project, trying to change de “Performance” option to “Hardware Encoding” is not possible as it is greyed out at “Software Encoding”

Premiere Pro settings, although this happens both on Media Encoder and Premiere Pro


I have tried Main profile with 4.1 and 4.2 levels as sugested by searches, but none of the combinations of profile and level seems to enable it.

 

CUDA rendering seems to be enabled, but it is also greyed out
Hardware rendering enabled at Media Encoder Media preferences

This happens both on Media Encoder and Premiere Pro

I have a Nvidia 4060ti GPU, latest Studio Drivers, CUDA Toolkit instaled (I even did a gpu driver clean install with ddu), reinstalled premiere and media encoder, and nothing seems to change this.

I can still use render with nvenc through ffmpeg, wich tells me that the problem might not be the GPU itself.

 

How can I solve this?

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    kglad
    Community Expert
    kgladCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    June 11, 2026

    post this in the me forum, https://community.adobe.com/adobe-media-encoder-503

     

    and change your title slightly to avoid a duplicate post error.

      vfxmarc
      vfxmarcAuthor
      Participant
      June 11, 2026

      done.
      new to the forums, sorry

      kglad
      Community Expert
      kgladCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      June 12, 2026

      ​@vfxmarc 

       

      no problem.

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