Why does Premiere open something called Media Encoder?

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June 2, 2021
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Hi! Can somebody please help me out? Why does Premiere open something called Media Encoder? My computer is lagging really badly when I try to edit videos. Does it have to do with that app? I have emptied the Premiere cache - I do it once per hour, and shut down the aplication, wich helps for a while. From time to time - at least once a day - Premiere crashes.

Here is what I can tell you about my computer - sorry, I coudn´t translate it all to English - I don´t know the words for this stuff...
mac os Big sur 11.2.3
MacBook Pro
Prosessor: Four cores Intel Core i7

2,2 GHz
Prosessors: 1
cores: 4
L2-välimuisti (per core): 256 kt
L3-välimuisti: 6 Mt
Hyper-Threading-tekniikka: in use
Memory: 16 Gt

Thank you in advance! 🙂
Katarina

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Warren Heaton

Community Expert

No, you do not have to export video from Premiere Pro with Media Encoder.

In the Premiere Pro Export Settings dialog box, choose Export instead of Queue.

Premiere Pro will export the file.

That said, you may still experience a drop in system respnosiveness as you do other tasks while the video exports. The two things that are going to improve this are more RAM and faster processor cores.

Since you're on Mac, are you using an all Apple ProRes workflow? That is, transcoding your source footage to Apple ProRes422 LT, setting your Sequence settign to ProRes422 LT and then exporting your editing master to ProRes422 LT? You would then drop your ProRes422 LT edited master into Media Encoder to encode it for delivery like H264. You should notice a significant improvement in responsiveness. By using ProRes, you're taking advantage of Premiere Pro's Smart Rendering.

KataKosAuthor

Participant

Hi Warren!

I haven´t tried to export anything, that´s the thing. I don´t have any issues with exporting. It AME just launches itself. And I use the settings Premiere suggests. I rather not mess with the presets.

Warren Heaton

Community Expert

There are other instances that can launch Adobe Media Encoder:

Ingest Settings
Proxy Creation
Open at Login (macOS option)

To check if it's Ingest Settings, go to File > Project > Project Settings while your project is open and choose the Ingest Settings tab. Look to see if "Ingest" is enabled. If this is enabled and set to Transcode, Create Proxies or Copy and Create Proxies then Media Encoder will launch.

To avoid launching Media Encoder when you import footage, make sure that Ingest is disabled (unchecked).

Proxy creation is much more obvious in that you have to right-click a clip or clips that you've imported and then choose Proxy > Create Proxies.

You could also double-check that "Open at Login" is disabled. It's off by default. When Media Encoder is open, right click its icon in the macOS Dock and double-check that Options > Open at Login is not checked.