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quaglinoman
quaglinoman
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July 6, 2018
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Why are we forced to use Media Encoder?

  • July 6, 2018
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I used to render fine out of Premiere and AFX, no 3rd application needed. I basically now wait until ME loads to open a dialog box that gives me the exact options as I had before. I used to never touch media encoder, what...does it encode with more gusto or something? It really feels like a giant pile of you know.

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    Correct answer Kevin-Monahan

    HI quaglinoman,

    You can export directly from Premiere Pro (File > Export > Media, then click Export) or by using the Render Queue in After Effects. No real need to use AME directly for most formats.

    Thanks,

    Kevin

    4 replies

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    Anonymous
    November 19, 2021

    Same problems here, trying to export a simple 22-second video in AE to mp4. No way to export this. Render que gives me a 2,5 gig video that looks like Minecraft, exporting via ME doesn't work because I can't even import a project. Haven't seen such an annoying program in a while. Are there any alternatives?

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    ysaxena
    New Participant
    June 30, 2020

    in 2020 now, and AME is still garbage. It's still always "Connecting to project". 

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      Anonymous
      November 19, 2021

      2021 and didn't change a bit.

      K
      kevinb30411870
      New Participant
      February 7, 2019

      Kevin-Monahan.... rendering in AE holds up production time. We don't have time to sit and watch the render rendering out in AE...

      So many crashes and lack of error code explanation going from AE to AME. AME Crashes and throws H.264 errors in different places all the time on different movies. We have had to revert back to rendering in AE which is slowing us down. The point of AME is to allow work to stack up and render out to allow production to continue... currently failing on this.

      SO many fixes to try that all do not help. It should just work for the money we pay for it. We are all capable of using the software to be creative.... we should not need to be hung up on fixing software.

      Adobe please fix your software.

        Kevin-Monahan
        Community Manager
        Kevin-MonahanCommunity ManagerCorrect answer
        Community Manager
        July 26, 2018

        HI quaglinoman,

        You can export directly from Premiere Pro (File > Export > Media, then click Export) or by using the Render Queue in After Effects. No real need to use AME directly for most formats.

        Thanks,

        Kevin

        Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community & Engagement Strategist – Pro Video and Audio
        rowli
        rowli
        Participating Frequently
        December 13, 2019

        @ Kevin

         

        Your answer is NOT correct - you cannot export to mp4 using the Render Queue - for any decent kind of compression options you are forced to use the bumbhole media encoder which seems to want to make my mac's fan's accelerate to the speed of light.

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