Adobe Media Encoder pausing rendering while working in Premiere Pro

[Barre2Faire]

Hello everyone,

So I am redering a video in Adobe Media Encoder and at the same time I am editing a new one in Premiere Pro.

I noticed that AME is constantly pausing the rendering and did not know why. It turns out that while I'm editing a video in Premiere Pro, I am constantly pressing the space bar to start/pause the video I'm editing. While I do that, AME keeps pausing/unpausing the rendering. Somehow, pressing the space bar in PP has an effect in AME.

I have no clue why it does that because the Premiere Pro window has the focus, not the AME one.

Has anyone ever seen that?

I use Windows 8 and Adobe CC.

[gepetto77]

hmm.. I get it but I'm working on a new Mac Pro with 8 cores. I know I have enough power for both to run fine. Seems silly I still cant utilize my computer even with the new update.

[excited_Genie16B8]

Mac Pro with 8 cores.

That's not as much power as you think.

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[gepetto77]

Actually, I don't get it... just playing pre rendered video in Premier stops AME from working. I get that Pr takes priority but how would there not be enough power to do both?

[RickBRock · Accepted solution]

Here is your answer...

in PremierePro Preferences (I'm using CC v12.1.1)

Preferences

Playback

uncheck "pause Media Encoder queue during playback"

click <OK>

enjoy your extra beer money caused by double efficiency

[madelinenorthway]

Wow. Bless you.

[vertovian]

Thank you! I can't believe I had to wade through the first two endless pages of absolute nerdery, which never addressed the completely simple question at hand. Honestly it's a wonder some editors manage to successfully butter their toast in the morning without overcomplicating it.