Adobe Media Encoder

Media Encoder Version 26.2.2 (Build 3) Renderer menu is greyed out with Mercury Playback Engine Software Only selected. System Compatibility Report shows “No conflicts to report”.Tested with NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 driver versions 596.36 (most current) and 582.53 (previous) with identical results.Media Encoder Version 26.3 (Beta) has the same problem.  

When I launch AME (directly or when it is launched from ingest settings for a Premiere project), the renderer defaults to to “Mercury Playback Engine Software Only” with no option to change it to any hardware acceleration option. If I open Preferences and clean the Media Cache database, the renderer will give me the Hardware Acceleration options (CUDA or OpenGL).  I have verified all my perferences/settings favor hardware acceleration, cleaned/remapped media cache and cache database folder destinations for all adobe programs, clean install of latest NVIDIA studio driver, reset AME preferences, performed Windows updates, verified the GPUSniffer is identifying my GPU (it is), reinstalled AME. None of these solutions have solved it.  The issue does resolve when I clean my media cache database within AME, but I must do this each time I launch AME, which is not ideal. System: Intel Ultra 9 285HX64GB RAMNVIDIA RTX PRO5000 Blackwell GPUOS Drive: 1TB M.2 SSDMedia and Cache Drive: 2 TB M.2 SSD

Hello,I am seeing what looks like a reproducible issue with H.264 Blu-ray export in Adobe Media Encoder on Apple Silicon Macs.I tested this on the following machines, and all of them showed the same problem:Mac mini (M4 Pro) Mac mini (M4) MacBook Air (M4)OS:macOS SequoiaAME versions tested:AME 2024 AME 2026Using the factory H.264 Blu-ray preset, Media Encoder creates an .m4v file that is not playable even in VLC. Because it already fails there, this seems to be a problem with the exported file itself, not just a Blu-ray authoring issue.I have not tested older Mac generations yet, but I can confirm that the same version of AME on Windows exports correctly.My current workaround is to export a high-bitrate AVC file on Mac, move it to Windows, and re-encode it there before authoring. That works, but it is not practical for long-form projects.I also checked one of the exported files with ffprobe, and it was detected as raw h264 with Duration: N/A and inconsistent timing information, which m

Exporting a 10 minute, most R3D footage with AE comps and third party fx. The plugins used is digital anarchy flicker free and deep glow—never have issues with either.  Renders usually take about 25-30 min. Today on the latest build, it took 5 hours and then once I came back, it had restarted the render and made a duplicate.Since downgrading to 26, it seems more stable except render times are still 2-3 hours. Ryzen 59050x64 DDR4RTX 4070ti4tb NVME 

When I export a video directly from Premiere Pro, all captions and text graphics render correctly.However, when I send the same sequence to Adobe Media Encoder (using batch export), the captions and text elements are missing in the final render.I’ve already tried:Using different fonts Reinstalling Premiere Pro and Media Encoder Trying different versions of Adobe softwareBut the issue keeps happening only when exporting via Media Encoder. version: 26.0.2

This has been happening for about two years now but it’s inconsistent so I have no idea what’s causing it.  Basically the entire comps is exported in the upper left corner and the rest is black. Happens with different projects, different pixel sizes, different frame rates, different plugins used. I mainly use Media Encoder from After Effects, so I have no idea if it happens with Premiere too. The only thing that seems to be consistent is that it generally happens on bigger projects, where there’s a lot of materials, although the exported comp might not necessarily be heavy or complex.In AE the comp exports just fine.I realized that the bug appears in the preview as well, and if I change the pixel size of the export inside Media Encoder even of just 1px then it goes back to normal. Changing the export to Mp4 or to Quicktime doesn’t solve it, nor changing the bitrate. Both After Effects and Media Encoder are up to date, right now it’s AE 26.2.1 and ME 26.2I’m on Mac Os Tahoe 26.3.132 GB

Over the past couple years I've exported dozens of long (1-2 hr) 4K 60fps videos with both Premiere Pro and Media Encoder.  Rendering times were basically the same (about 3 hours per hour of video), so I usually exported with Media Encoder because it was easier to run in the background while doing other things (including working on new projects in Premiere Pro). After Abobe updated Premiere Pro and Media Encoder to the 2025 version, Media Encoder has become ridiculously slow.  Exporting a 2hr 4K60 directly from Premiere Pro takes about 6 hours, but exporting that same video with Media Encoder is estimated to take 320 hours!!!  And no, that's not just a time estimation bug; I once let it run for a few hours and come back to confirm that it had only rendered a minute or two of video. I've read that other people are having the same problem with the 2025 version, and that for now the only "solution" is to roll back Media Encoder and Premiere Pro to their 2024 versi

I have a project. In Premiere I can render it for 20 minutes, but in Encoder, it’s 60 minutes. Why?Why would anyone deliberately slow down my work? I notice this sometimes in different projects and different software versions. I thought the rendering time would be the same or even faster than in Premiere

I’m having a very frustrating issue where every time I open a project, the progress panel in Adobe Premiere Pro starts “relinking media” and “generating audio” and “preparing audio”  which takes many hours to complete and severely slows down my editing process.I’m currently using version 26.0.2 and working on a large project with a lot of footage. I’m working from a 14TB external USB-C drive. I’ve already cleared the cache that was linked to the external drive and reassigned it to my computer’s internal drive.I need help solving this problem. Thank you.  

On and off for months now I have been faced with the exporting bug "Preparing Audio (X of XXXX)." Adobe Media Encoder claims to be processing a range of hundreds to thousands of audio files when I have, at max, 7 audio tracks. I have found many other posts here and on Reddit with the same problem with no answer from Adobe. I'm hoping they will see this and help! I'm going to break down my sequences, troubleshooting, fixes, and failures. All of these projects are for a remote video podcast whose workflow has evolved and grown more complicated but maintains the same bug. May 2023: I begin the podcast editing process.I'm using Adobe Premiere 2022.My timeline has one video source (export from OBS), another video track for nested graphics and After Effects animations, 4 podcast audio tracks, one audio track for sound effects, and 1-2 audio tracks for musicThe "preparing audio" bug begins. Takes hours to process THOUSANDS of audio files, then it takes another hour or 2 to process t

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When I use Media Encoder to transcode a video—for example, Apple ProRes 422 HQ with Linear PCM audio—After Effects and Premiere create a delay of about one frame between the audio and the video, which is very annoying. This problem only occurs when I set the output settings to MP4 H.264 with AAC audio. As I need to deliver an MP4 H.264 file with AAC as the audio codec to my client, I have no choice but to use other video transcoding software. And in that case, I don’t have any issues with the audio and video being out of sync; the audio is exactly the same as in the source Apple ProRes file.Is this a bug or have I configured the settings incorrectly?I have attached my ME output preset along with a screenshot of the delay caused by the encoding . Thanks.

Hello! I’m making a bunch of proxies in media encoder, and I’m doing by selecting the original media in the Media Encoder media browser, importing it to the queue, and it’s set to my preferred preset already.  I’m going to hot swap these proxies with some previous incorrectly made proxies, so I want their output names to be the same as the original media plus the suffix “_Proxy” Looking in Media Encoder and online, I have not been able to find a way to make the output name for all those videos the same. They automatically generate as “Original Media Name_1” and set to save by the original media. I change each clip manually to have “_Proxy” instead of “_1” and set it to the right place to save. Is there anyway to include that output suffix and save location with the preset? Or am I stuck doing it one by one?

Hi everyone,I’m facing a major issue with rendering performance that started about 1–2 months ago. I’ve been working for the same company for several years with a consistent workflow and project complexity, but lately, rendering has become a nightmare.Projects that used to take under 10 minutes to export now take 40+ minutes. The performance seems inconsistent and unpredictable, even though the source files and effects remain the same as before. I am NOT using any third-party plugins.Troubleshooting steps I’ve already taken:1. Performed a clean reinstall of the Adobe ecosystem using the Adobe Creative Cloud Cleaner Tool.2. Tried rolling back to previous versions of Premiere Pro/Media Encoder.3. Did a clean GPU driver install using DDU in Safe Mode.4. Tested multiple driver versions, including the latest Adrenalin 26.3.1 and an older stable version from September 2025.None of these steps resolved the issue. It feels like hardware acceleration is either failing or not being utilized prop

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When I send any file to the queue from Pr or AE after I specifically told the programme the file needs to be replaced, Media Encoder does not respect that decision and adds "_1" behind the chosen file name for a newly created video file.How can I tell Media Encoder to stop doing this? 

Hi everyone,For some time now, I've been experiencing annoying static glitches/artifacts in my Media Encoder exports. These glitches appear randomly on different frames.I've already tried several troubleshooting steps, including: Switching between Hardware and Software encoding. Clearing all Media Cache and Disk Cache (both in AE and AME). Ensuring my NVIDIA Studio Drivers are up to date. Interestingly, the first one or two renders usually come out clean, but the glitches start appearing in subsequent queue items.System Specs: Laptop: Asus ProArt P16 GPU: RTX 5070 (8GB VRAM) RAM: 64GB normal framecorrupt frame 

HIhaving a major issue with media encoder. Title says it all. i go to encode a simple video just a single clip and at random intervals it actually shuts my ENTIRE computer off. this only started happening when i updated media encoder. before i updated, i had no problems whatsoever. system info:Current Windows 10 software16 gb ramNvidia GEforce gtx 760 (current as well)(Note i have solid works cadcam software with 3D modeling and pulling up massive sub assemblies with hundreds of parts and assemblies the computer doesnt even blink at it. no problems there. makes me think issue is entirely with media encoder)(note videos i am trying to edit with premier pro are just usually one video clip with titles at beginning and end from adobe. i only add maybe a cross dissolve in and thats it. videos are shot with a nikon D7000 camera. using same process i have done so for a few years now with media encoder and premiere pro with no problems till now. also again encoding crashes at random intervals.

At my work I am downloading and encoding A LOT of commercial every day.  My question is, can I create a preset that will start at a dedicated in-point in order to cut off the slate or black video at the beginning of the commercial and create an out-point to encode either a 30, 15 or 10 second video file?