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.  

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

As the headline says you can have the same profile with different settings.Problem is that ME is not overwriting the current settings if you change a setting and then save it as the same name. 

The order of the Media Encoder queue has been reversed. Items are now added bottom-to-top and the queue runs in that reversed direction too. There is no option that I can see to revert this back. I assume this is a bug, as nobody would have requested this as a feature.

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

I'm trying to convert ProRes 4444 with alpha to a HEVC H265 with Alpha. I'm on an M1 Mac Studio (running Ventura 13.2.1). I've seen people say "hardware encoding" needs to be selected in Media Encoder (23.2.1), but it is not selectable. I've tried this conversion using Premiere and in also Mac finder using "Encode Selected Files"; everything seems to work correctly, but when I test the finished HEVC in AE or Pr, they never have alpha channels. Just black where there should be transparency. What am I doing wrong? Thanks.

The new masking feature is great imo, but they sometimes break / disappear when exporting through Media Encoder. I have experienced this when using the object mask tool to then copy a mask into “opacity” to essentially create a layout roto. Hoping this will work soon, or there is some solution to this, because I mainly use Encoder to render, as I have to do a lot of bulk exports. 

Hi there, I work as a video editor, and usually create videos in bulk on my home PC. To make rendering easier, I queue all the videos I edit with AME. I've been having issues with AME, however. Because I usually stack a lot of videos up at once, I'd still like to use my PC to do other stuff, such as playing games or watching videos on YouTube. Doing this, as well as editing videos with Premiere while the queue is running, seem to make the GPU driver crash. Whenever it crashes, rendering won't work until I restart my PC.I can't remember when exactly this started happening, but I'm pretty sure switching to Windows 11 had nothing to do with it. I've run both the Studio and Game Ready NVIDIA drivers, both resulting in the exact same problem. Could this just be a sign of my GPU failing, or is something else going on? I've attached my AMEEncodingErrorLog in the attachments. Hope someone can help me out here. I get very frustrated whenever this happens, and fixing it would save me a

Files are being removed from queue when I Quit Media Encoder, but my ME Settings/General/Remove completed files from queue on exit box is unchecked.I often want to modify a render setting, or view the log for one, and will have quit ME first.MacOS 15.6.1Media Encoder 26.2.2 build 2Macbook M1 16”

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

just 1 hour video just one hour. please help its too slow  

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

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