Repeated Render Errors - Code -1609629695

[Chris Colton]

Over the past week or two I'm having a ton of render failures in Adobe Media Encoder with the error code -1609629695. Last night 5 different renders all failed. I've tried switching the renderer to Software Only and it didn't help. I've pasted some of the error messages below. Several of these sequences have failed dozens of times. One particular sequence has failed so many times that its version number is now 42 - and it's the first cut sent to the client. Or, I should say, not sent, because it still hasn't worked.

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- Encoding Time: 00:57:29

12/04/2017 12:42:34 AM : Encoding Failed

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Export Error

Error compiling movie.

Render Error

Render returned error.

Writing with exporter: HEVC (H.265)

Writing to file: \\?\B:\IW\IW14 Christine Allwine\Exports\IW14A Christine Allwine Feature Length Video v06-01.mp4

Writing file type: HEVC

Around timecode: 00:11:05:01 - 00:11:05:17

Rendering at offset: 665.707 seconds

Component: HEVC (H.265) of type Exporter

Selector: 9

Error code: -1609629695

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- Encoding Time: 00:58:05

12/04/2017 01:41:28 AM : Encoding Failed

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Export Error

Error compiling movie.

Render Error

Render returned error.

Writing with exporter: DNxHR/DNxHD MXF OP1a

Writing to file: B:\IW\IW14 Christine Allwine\Exports\IW14A Christine Allwine Feature Length Video v06-01_1.mxf

Around timecode: 00:11:05:01 - 00:11:05:06

Rendering at offset: 665.707 seconds

Component: DNxHR/DNxHD MXF OP1a of type Exporter

Selector: 9

Error code: -1609629695

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- Encoding Time: 00:05:10

12/04/2017 01:46:40 AM : Encoding Failed

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Export Error

Error compiling movie.

Render Error

Render returned error.

Writing with exporter: DNxHR/DNxHD MXF OP1a

Writing to file: B:\ps\ps12\Exports\PS12A Testimonials v03-03.mxf

Around timecode: 00;01;30;22 - 00;01;30;27

Rendering at offset: 90.757 seconds

Component: DNxHR/DNxHD MXF OP1a of type Exporter

Selector: 9

Error code: -1609629695

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[Chris Colton]

Trying turning off GPU acceleration (change to Software Only). Also given my past experience you'll be waiting for Adobe to help forever.

[johns56813176]

So I got the same Selector: 9 Error code: -1609629695 error in premiere and I think I've found a solution for me, but no idea if it works in relations to you.

I had two separate clips with a bunch of effects on each. I added an adjustment layer, and applied the effects that work on the adjustment layer, and then nested each adjustment layer with each individual clip. I am currently past my normal error spot and it seems to be exporting.

[Chris Colton]

Thanks John! Switching the effects to an adjustment layer just worked for

me in After Effects and looks like at the very least it's helping in

Premiere as well.

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[Chris Colton]

I'm having this same error code again on a Premiere sequence with After

Effects dynamic link clips in it. Turning off GPU doesn't help and there

are no effects that can be moved to adjustment layers. Would be really nice

if Adobe clarified what 1609629695 means so I could actually know what I'm

trying to troubleshoot.

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[SuperGus]

For what it's worth, I struggled with error 1609629695 for many hours. I finally discovered that the export fails if I select "Use Maximum Render Quality" but it's OK if I de-select it.

[Guest]

I am getting the same error here. Adobe PR ver12.12 (build 69) on a Intel i7 6850k no overclocking. MSI nVidia GeForce 1080ti card.  64 gigs of ram.   I have tried every setting I can think of except turning off Rendering at Max quality, because WHY would I want to do that!??!   I might as well use Final Cut.  Anyway, in a production environment suffering with the rest of you... Adobe, do you get pissed if my Credit card errors every month??  No, you don't...because I make sure it doesn't. 

[nathanw44462318]

Just to try to help I just had this same issue. If you have a PNG sequence with a missing frame the render will stop at the exact point that frame with no data is. It won't appear as missing it will just have 0 data in it. if you re render that one frame you can replace it. The way I found out which frame did this was by pre-rendering the png sequences layer in after effects around the area where the render errors out. If you have a frame that is messed up after effects will error out and list the exact frame number.

[Welli]

I had exactly same error, but I realized, that I had one corrupted frame in PNG sequence. I fixed that and now everything works fine again.

[tyrones97003060]

SOLVED!!!!
Set your Media Export to Software, not Hardware GPU (within the Media Export dialogue)
You may or may choose 1 pass or 2 passes. I've only tested single pass.
And increase your Windows Paging file to at least 55GB -

Restart the machine

I was able to export an entire 6K 30 minute film.
And PROBLEMS ARE SOLVED.