PProheadless.exe

Report · May 05, 2009

Hello,

first post here. I'm running Adobe Production Suite CS4, v. 4.01.

System specs.: Asus P6t Deluxe v2, i7 processor, 12 gb ram, matrox rt.x2, 4 internal sata drives at 250 gb each, 2 tb raid 0 for video. Window Vista Ultimate 64 bit.

I'm also encountering this same issue on a seperate computer:

specs.: Asus P5E3 Deluxe, 8 GB ram, quad core processor at 2.67 mghz, 4 internal sata drives, 1 tb raid 0 for video. Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit. Again, running Adobe CS4 Production Premium.

The issue: from Premiere Pro export uncompressed avi through Adobe Media Encoder, 30fps, progressive. The timeline contains simple lower thirds and an avi. Media Encoder will begin the coding process and about 1/4 of the way through the timeline this error will appear: "PProheadless.exe has stopped working." I have already searched this forum concerning this issue and did find one entry that stated a resolution ... Edit>Preferences>General, and then check "optimize the render=memory." This did not resolve the issue. I also have Windows Vista running fast with the bare essentials and have virtual memory set for efficient operation. Anyway, it would seem with 12 GB of ram that Media Encoder would have enough to work with. I have used CS4 for several months and at first the PProheadless.exe never appeared. I'm scratching my head as to why now.

Is anyone else encountering this issue with AME? Suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

thanks,

Cliff

Report · Jul 22, 2009

Dear Expecial,

In one of your post you said " It seems that Premiere Pro CS4 has a bug when it comes to having a hi-res JPEG image streched along the timeline longer than 10 seconds in length"..what do you consider high res? In my case I have 1024 pixel x 666 pixels JPEG images (which does not seem really high rs to me but..) and they are stretched along the timeline up to 6 sec

Could that be an issue?? Is there a way to solve it rather than reduce teh image size (which would affect video quality)

Thanks a lot

Eric

Report · Jul 23, 2009

Just as a side note you say your on Version 4.01

Version 4.1 is out.

Have you updated ?

Report · Jul 23, 2009

Just had a friend with this error. In desperation he exported his timeline in 4 chunks. 3 exported fine, one with a jumpback.mov would not. Took that out and then it exported fine..

Report · Jul 23, 2009

Sorry, my mistake! I meant 4.1

Report · Feb 03, 2011

I got the same problem. Looks like when PProHeadless.exe needs too much memory, then it crashs. This works for me: open the task manager, select processes tab, sort by memory. After some time the PProHeadless.exe is on top. If the memory exceeds 1 GB (on my 4 GB maschine), I click "pause" in the Adobe Media Encoder. Then I wait some seconds, and then I kill the PProHeadless.exe process in the task manager. Then I continue the encoding in the Adobe Media Encoder, which restarts the PProHeadless.exe again.

Maybe Adobe can implement this automaticly? It is very boring to do this manually ten times or more per video encoding. Maybe a checkbox in Adobe Media Encoder titled "kill and restart buggy PProHeadless.exe automaticly, if there are too many unfixed memory holes"

Report · Feb 25, 2011

Those who are still using CS4 and having this problem here is a fix that worked for me:

Instead of going to Export Uncompressed AVI I tried going to Export Avi and then chose V210 as the codec. Worked like a charm!

Report · Apr 26, 2011

Sorry to hear about your problem. I have the same problem with Asus P5E Win XP-3, 32bit and CS4 premium 4GB RAM. I noticed that I always crash as RAM useage for PProheadless gets to 286MB. At that time AME is using 631MB. This happens regardless if Premiere is running or not. This is very frustrating because it makes ones computer useless for exporting any kind of AME encoded data. Perhaps tapeout will still work.