Media Encoder Pauses itself when Premiere Pro is playing [macOS]

[Woody84]

I'm running into an issue that I have never run into before. I queued up a sequence to be rendered from Premiere to Media Encoder. I started the render in Media Encoder, I went back to Premiere to start on a new project in Premiere while Media Encoder renders in the background. The issue is that every time I hit play on the Premiere Timeline, it pauses the Media Encoder render. I've checked everywhere and can't find the issue within the software. I may be overlooking something. I also can't find anyone having the same issues online. This is a new problem. It hasn't acted like this before. I have attached a video below that demonstrated what I'm talking about. I'm on a 2017 iMac Pro with a 3.2 ghz Intel Xeon W. 32gb RAM. Raedon Pro Vega 56 8gb RAM.

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[David Arbor · Accepted solution]

AME has worked like this for quite some time, and it is intentional, but can be disabled in the Premiere Pro prefs.

Perhaps you or someone else disabled this option in the prefs before, but it is on by default.

Go to Premiere Pro > Preferences > Playback 

and uncheck the "Pause Media Encoder queue during playback" option. 

[markc5470970]

i just logged in to say THANK YOU for this!! i don't think it was ever changed manually for me, but i wonder if things get reset/changed when Adobe Creative Cloud installs updates/new versions of the software. this was driving me nuts!

[TycoonEdits]

It worked!! Thank you so much @David Arbor  for your contribution

[Shivangi_Gupta]

Hi there,

We're sorry for the delay in response. Did you try the suggestion provided by @davidarbor? Did it help?

Looking forward for an update.

Thanks,

Shivangi

[TheRomeroEffect]

YES! This absolutely worked! Thank you for your contribution @David Arbor - 5 stars!!!

[David Arbor]

Great, glad it helped!

[TheRomeroEffect]

Keep up the great work 🤙🏽