(ExtendScript) Send job to AME queue without starting the queue elaboration immediately.

[Il Ret]

Hi everyone, I'm coding a custom panel for Premiere Pro in ExtendScript. I'm referring to the PProPanel example project render function as a starting point:
https://github.com/Adobe-CEP/Samples/blob/5490c33ac8355ba394c693deb10414553b0a5685/PProPanel/jsx/PPR...

However, I can't seem to find a way to send the job to AME queue without having it to start the queue elaboration immediately. What I want to achieve is something similar to the behaviour of the default Premiere export sceen, where you click on "Send to Media Encoder" and it just queue up the job without starting the elaboration right after: in my panel I will send multiple segments from the timeline to the queue, and I will start the elaboration manually in AME at the end.

[Kevin-Monahan]

Hi,

Welcome to the forum. I read your case notes and I appreciate your question. I have pinged the team about your issue, so I have to ask for your patience until they arrive with a solution for you. Sorry for the frustration.

Cheers,

Kevin

[Bruce Bullis · Accepted solution]

Hello Il Ret,

the last (optional) parameter to app.encoder.encodeSequence() indicates whether or not to start rendering immediately:

https://github.com/Adobe-CEP/Samples/blob/9efca02ea88ad32a8c22571f5ffe2407ae732cd8/PProPanel/jsx/PPR...

[Il Ret]

Woah thank you so much Bruce, I must have missed that parameter. I'mg going to test it as soon as possible.

[Il Ret]

I've added the parameter correctly, but it seems to ignore it from time to time. Even the "Save sequence frame as .png" feature from the PProPanel example seems to behave the same. Is this a known bug?

[Bruce Bullis]

> Is this a known bug?

No, yours is the first report. Key to figuring it out = determining what's changing, "from time to time". 🙂

Confirming: In the AME prefs, do you happen to have "start queue immediately" enabled?