AME error: Could not read from the source. Please check if it has moved or been deleted

[chris_z77-czYu1k]

When sending any file from premiere to AME, AME fails to encode if the project is closed or crashes. This only seems to happen if you close premiere before AME starts encoding, or if you send multiple files and Premiere is closed, AME will fail to encode the files it hasn't started on yet.

Error: Could not read from the source. Please check if it has moved or been deleted

The reason why this happens is easy, When a file is sent from Premiere to AME, Dynamic Link creates a TEMP project in the G8 Folder on a mac. By closing Premiere, those TEMP projects gets flushed, therefore when AME reaches the files, it can't find the source project anymore. Any way to change this behaviour?

It happened to me where AME was creating 600 Proxies. Midway, Premiere was closed due to a forced Mac Update, but AME prevented the restart, and kept encoding, only to fail on the rest of the files with the amazing not-creepy sheep sound (which definitely needs to be changed)

[Jim_Simon]

I can't reproduce this using version 12.1 on Windows 10 Pro (1709).  AME works whether PP is open or closed.

[chris_z77-czYu1k]

It happens mostly if Premiere crashes, Forced quite, or the compute is restarted and AME tries to pick from where it left off.

I never had this issue on a Windows machine, only on a MAC.

It is also more relevant to proxies vs regular encoding.

I can easily reproduce it if I manually delete the TEMP files, but can't really tell in which situations those files are automatically flushed.

[Jim_Simon]

I never had this issue on a Windows machine

I would argue you just solved the problem.

[chris_z77-czYu1k]

I had other issues on Windows, but that's not the topic.

[Kevin-Monahan]

Hi Chris_Z,

Can you place this issue into user voice? Premiere Pro: Hot (958 ideas) – Adobe video & audio apps

Thanks,
Kevin

[dhpd]

I'm getting the same error from an .aep comp. 8k, 3 hours long. It won't add to AME render queue. Just stalls. I've un/reinstalled AE, PP, & AME. I've tried dragging the comp into the queue, but it fails.

Any ideas?

[jaydude-wb]

Had this a lot from After Effects - kind of under control now (my work around was to change permissions in MacOS for the temp file that Ae creates when sending a Comp to Media Encoder.

But this seems solved.. Until... I started working with Character Animator, which relies completely on Media Encoder for rendering. But unfortunately the fail shows up again, with the same undescriptive and incorrect meese in AME's log.

Could not read from the source. Please check if it has moved or been deleted.