Warning: AME presets have "VR" button checked by default

Just happened to me. Checked by default. Thanks for this thread, it was perplexing me for a couple hours. Geesh.

Hello All!

Posting in an attempt to bring attention to this issue. I export lots of videos at all sorts of aspect ratios headed for all kinds of destination without issue. However, I've had two youtube premieres recently go awry because of this issue. In both cases it occurs when exporting at video at a 2:1 aspect ratio. When exporting at this ratio, the "Video is VR" becomes checked by default. As this setting is well below the fold in the export settings, I typically would not review it, having forgotten it is there. Video plays as expected in Finder, Quicktime, and Dropbox preview, but when uploaded to Youtube, the VR metadata is recognized and the video displays as such. 

Yes, in an ideal world, we should be dillegently reviewing ALL of our export settings, due to the volume of work, and different versions needed, this just ends up taking time. Yes, I sent a video to a client to post and didn't check the link before the premiere; this was unprofessional on my part, I will not be making this mistake again, but I do feel with all the new fearures being jammed into Premiere, it's becoming ever more difficult to manage and maintain trusted workflows. 

I produce VR videos from time to time, and the configuration of sequence settings and export settings requires a lot more foresight. I find that creating these projects requires a great deal more INTENTION, and thus, when I am INTENTIONALLY creating a VR video, I tend to review my export settings and check "Video is VR" accordingly (I don't recall ever having seen it checked by default before).

So I propose putting the onus of this checkbox on VR creators (they are going to be the ones scrolling to the bottom of the export settings to check on it anyway), instead of arbitrarily defaulting it for the rest of us.  

That is something either in your Preferences folder or somewhere else withing Premiere's numerous bits & pieces. So ... try Ann's suggestion to Trash Preferences or do an uninstall with the Adobe CC Cleaner Tool, then reboot/reinstall. 

I know the instructions for the CC Cleaner Tool say to use the CC app to do the uninstall, but often doing things that way means the CC Cleaner doesn't "see" anything to remove. Use it to do the full job, the uninstall AND the cleanup, it ... works.

And I've never figured out why so many insist that any anomaly that shows up on their machine must be a complete app-wide thing with bazillions of others getting it. But then ... I've had experience with the app enough to know that it can do weird stuff all by its lonesome on one machine.

Neil

I think that this is an isolated incident.

I most frequently use H264 Match Source - High Bit Rate and H264 Match Source - Adaptive High Bitrate, but a quick look through the Preset Settings in the Preset Browser shows that "Video is VR" is enabled or not enabled as expected.

I've included some screen shots for those that may want to double-check this on their own but not know where to look for the "Video is VR" setting.

-Warren

Not seeing this behavior on my installation.

MtD

The button is not by default on (at least not in my version)

Might want to trash prefernces.

OS X or Windows?

I am on Windows 10 and the preset for H.264, Youtube Full HD 1080p does not have "Video is VR" checked by default. I tested other YT presets as well and none have "Video is VR" checked by default.