Help! Turn off Proxies!!!

A "watch folder" is a folder you create on a drive, then tell Media Encoder that it is a watch folder.

It wants to know then what to do with anything that appears in that watch folder.

So you set a series of actions. Say rename using X convention, transcode using Y preset, and put the output in Z folder.

After that, any time Me is open, and "sees" media in that folder, it automagically renames it, transcodes with your prescribed preset, and parks the exported media in the specified folder.

Some shops have a ingest machine set up so that some assistant editor takes camera cards and copies to specified watch folders for certain types of jobs. Walks away working elsewhere in the shop.

And somebody sits down later and moves things to their next stop.

Neil

I just kept closing it until it finally stopped. There was way too many assets for me to just "let it and be done". It finally stopped after my closing everything a few times... So, all is good/back to normal. I don't know what I did to ultimately get it to stop though. After I was done in premiere I went back to AME to clear out everything, here's what was in there, I killed it!

Do you have any Watch Folders set up? Uncheck "Auto-Encode Watch folders" in Media Encoder in the top right of the screen. Then click the red STOP button. Select everything in the queue and press delete.

Nothing else should be automatically going into Media Encoder.