Rendering a Premiere Timeline using Media Encoder on a remote machine

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July 11, 2024
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I know similar discussions have happened before but I didn't find things that worked exactly to my requirements.

My setup: I am editing the a Premiere Project with multiple timelines on an M1 MacBook Pro. My company pays for enterprise plan so I still have a folder with full cloud sync enabled, i.e. all project files and assets are in the CC Sync Folder. I have a 2nd machine which is a Windows gaming laptop with the CC Sync Folder set up on its SSD as well.

Is there a way that I can send individual timelines to the 2nd laptop? E.g. I click on Export Media > Send to Media Encoder but instead of opening Media Encoder locally it queues up on the Windows machine? Is there a file I can copy? I know After Effects creates AEP files for its render queue but these are pure Premiere jobs.

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PaulMurphy

Community Expert

You can easily render a Premiere timeline using Media Encoder on a remote machine by creating a watch folder.

Adobe Media Encoder
1. Open Adobe Media Encoder on your PC.
2. Go to Settings > General and under Queue, set the time for automatic exporting.
3. In the Watch Folder tab, click Add Folder and select a location in your synced folder. Add the presets you want to export to.

Premiere Pro
1. On your Macbook Pro, ensure sequences are not in any bins (on the root level of the project).
2. Select them in the Project panel and choose File > Export > Selection as Premiere Project and save to the same location in your sync folder.

When the exported project file syncs on your PC and Media Encoder sees it, it will automatically start encoding.

Note: Your PC needs to have access to all the same media, effects, and fonts as your Macbook.

Hope this helps! If you have any more questions, feel free to ask.

Cheers,
Paul

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Akshay30014633pt4nAutor

Inspiring

Hi Paul, I'd tried that previously before writing this post, but Media Encoder simply doesn't start encoding .prproj files for some reason. This technique works if I drop normal video files but it doesn't work for project files, which is pointless for what I need. I even tried it again with the Queue settings you mentioned but nothing happened.

Edit: I went through everything step by step, making sure that plugins were present in Premiere on both systems, and I had the timeline in the root of the project before exporting, so it should work. I'm updating Media Encoder to the latest version, which was the only thing I hadn't done previously. I'll report back after a restart on whether it works now.

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PaulMurphy

Community Expert

Just to re-iterate - it's crucial that the sequence or sequences are not inside any bin, they have to be on the root level of the project.

MyerPj

Community Expert

From @R Neil Haugen

<<We are getting a fair number of posts by various dev team staffers these days. Annika, Todd, Cliff, Matt, Ishan, a whole bunch of others. More than we ever used to have.>>

I just wanted to agree with this, it's been great having so many devs posting here and in the beta forum. Thanks everyone!

Ann Bens

Community Expert

Moved to Idea board.

Ann Bens

Community Expert

Premiere does not support render farms.

Ae does.

https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/automated-rendering-network-rendering.html

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Akshay30014633pt4nAutor

Inspiring

It's not exactly a render farm, it's the other machine logged into my CC account...

And of course such a basic feature should be available to paid subscribers, its quite a basic ask that I be able to work on a different timeline while exporting a previous one.