Adobe Media Encoder has stopped working

I checked too quickly and didn't saw link to solutions...

Thank I'll try first one and post result.

>The reply has disappeared

That's been happening to mine too, lately.

The knowledgebase article in the link I provided gives you two work arounds. I'm not sure how you missed that.

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Eddie

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Ok this says my issue is not resolved yet and that I'm screwed for the moment.

Any work around? Export into another program I could do?

Maybe bring it back in PP3 can I bring a PP4 project into PP3 ?

See Error:Encoding Failed Could not read from the source

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Eddie

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Here's my error message, I tried unchecking box didn't worked (my bug is same as Kai). I'm trying to export a WAV on an audio only timeline.

- Source File: C:\Users\POODLE~1\AppData\Local\Temp\Totem & Taboo - OMF export_6.prproj
- Output File: Y:\Totem & Taboo - scènes 1 à 121.wav
- Preset Used: Windows Waveform 48kHz 16-bit
- Video:
- Audio:
- Bitrate:
- Encoding Time: 01:07:04
13/03/2009 10:40:46 AM : Encoding Failed
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Could not read from the source. Please check if it has moved or been deleted.
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All my files are online and havenb't been moved or anything, just transfered from PP3 to PP4.

The reply has disappeared, but someone suggested creating, and signing in under, a new administrator. I did this last night, and it solved the problem, at least for now. I didn't have time to actually encode anything, but I'm hopeful that this takes care of it.

I have no idea why it would, but am thankful for the suggestion.

Sorry - I didn't get that you actually got the message "Adobe Media Encoder has stopped working"...in my case, AME just stopped working and didn't do anything - it just stopped on "loading project" and froze.

In my case, I tried about anything.
I Reinstalled (unisntalled with Cleanscript) the whole Suite a couple of times, even set up a complete new OS and didn't install any 3rd party codecs, installed any actual graphix- and audio-drivers,tried any suggestion from Adobe Support and nothing worked.....

Since I found out about this XMP-Metadata thing, I had no problems at all rendering any files, any format, any size....

Sorry, that this doesn't work for you...but maybe it's helpful to others having trouble with AME....In my case, I could have saved loads of time and nerves spending on the search for solutions...

Well - anyway - good luck! Hope you'll get your problems fixed soon !

AME Crashes: Now this may sound weird but try running MS process explorer before you start to encode (its a Microsoft alternative to task manager processes) Make sure windows sidebar is also closed (vista crap)or the process killed - and make sure there are no itunes helper processes running (disable them from startup) I used to have lots of probs with Media encoder crashing out / stopping / stalling and for some reason the above few combined tips really helped. Not so sure it will help if it wont even start! but maybe worth a try.

If AME wont even start you could first delete any AME references in the windows prefetch folder (or delete the entire contents of the prefetch folder for that matter - but not the folder itself)- Restart and try again

I also restart my PC before I attempt any longish AME excercises. I have had crashes / BSODs and spent ages trying to track down the culprit clip, still etc with crash after crash at the same point - and then the above process explorer stuff running in the sys tray saw AME sail through to the end.

Talking of annoying crashes, albeit slightly off topic, - I also never let PP go out to Encore and burn to disk in one hit - I always burn to a folder first (especially if bluray) and then burn disk with ImgBurn or similar freebie. Learnt that after a painful day of lock ups and crashes between PP and Encore. Could of course be my setup.

I found changing to new administrator and logging on again fixed this problem

Vince