Hi Kevin !
Thank you for your answer.
Unfortunately I am also a victim of the Premiere Pro and Media Encoder bug. I just tried the beta versions and it's not fixed.
I will try to describe the problem, how it happened and how it persists, to give you something to think about.
The bug first appeared when I updated Adobe software to version 2024 on my Mac Mini M1 16gb Ram 512gb SSD.
I mainly film live music in multicam with BMPCC4k. My rushes are often more than 1 hour long, in constant quality Q3 braw, and the bug appeared the first time when I was generating the proxies of the 6 cameras that I had used for a concert (Prores low quality proxy).
So it wasn't a very complicated project at all!
I opened a new project, imported the 6 video files, started creating proxies with ME, and 2/3 of the way through the generation of the first proxy, my memory was full.
I didn't have time to think much to find a solution because the client was in a hurry, so without thinking I reinstalled the 2023 versions, and everything was back to normal. This was my first encounter with the bug.
I then worked for several months with the 2023 versions without problem.
Last week I decided to change computers, being a little limited by the Mac mini, I bought a second-hand Mac Studio M1 Max 32gb Ram and 512gb SSD.
After installing the latest versions of the Adobe software that I use (photoshop, photoshop beta, lightroom, after effects, PP, ME, ID, Acrobat), I wanted to export a very simple video again. It's 5 hours of video taken from a single camera that filmed a theater festival over a weekend.
I just created a sequence by putting the rushes one after the other, without any editing or color correction, and I exported everything in 720p. Normally everything should go well, and unfortunately when I was halfway through the export with ME, the ram had reached 120gb and the computer crashed.
Since several days I have been trying to find a solution by myself, I have tried more than 7 versions of PP and ME, from 2023 and 2024, and I still have the bug.
I also tried to uninstall creative cloud, start with the Intel versions, use different versions of PP and ME, basically everything I found on the internet, but the bug unfortunately does not disappear.
I still give details of what I was able to spot:
In the activity monitor, we can see that the memory consumption increases little by little without stopping until the computer freezes (up to 120GB in my case), but in the small graph at the bottom "pressure on the memory", the consumption gradually increases to 26gb (over 32gb) then stabilizes in yellow and stay around 26gb (so it looks normal here!). When it crashes, it turns red but doesn't reach the maximum (red at 26gb). As if the Mac couldn't see that the memory was consumed.
For the processor it's the same, ME consumes 900% of the processor, but on the graph below, it is not saturated.
Does the bug only occur with used computers? Could this be linked to the Adobe account (very strange that this happens to me on 2 different Macs).
I sincerely hope that you will be able to find a solution, I will be available for more details.
Thank you so much and kind regards from Switzerland.
Eric
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