Hey everyone, I've been dealing with this annoying "feature" in AME for quite a while, and I really want to figure out how to avoid this. Basically, sometimes when I try to create proxies through Media Encoder, it'll auto-rename my output files to "FILENAME"_1. In the past, I've been fine with just renaming every file after they process so they can relink to full-res media in Premiere based off of name, but I really just want to figure out what I might be missing that's causing this. I'm running AME v13.1, and here are my system specs (although I have noticed this on older versions of AME, and on my PC at home): Let me walk you through my process... Right now, I'm working with footage from a Sony FS7 footage shot in 4K AVCHD, trying to create 1080 DNX LB proxies. I've imported my footage from my media onto my hard drive, and then I want to create proxies on that hard drive, so I created this ingest preset... ...with the default destination set to my desired folder on that hard drive, which is a different folder from where the full-res footage is stored. From there, I'll load the footage I want to transcode into the Media Browser window. I select all the clips, and drag it down to the preset that I just created. It adds them all to the queue, and as you can see, the output files all look fine (no _1's on any of them)... ...buuut, sometimes, I have needed to change the destination folder for the clips after they've been added to the queue, so I select them all and click on where it says "1080 DNX LB Proxies" on one of the clips to make changes to the preset. It gives me the warning, "You are about to edit encoding settings for multiple outputs. The settings of all selected outputs will be replaced. Do you want to continue?" and I hit OK. I browse to "change" the destination folder, but for the sake of troubleshooting, I just reselected the same folder as before. Keep in mind I haven't exported anything from AME to this folder at this point, and yet, once I confirm that "change" in destination, all my output files have been _1'd... I tried starting back from loading the files into the queue, then editing the preset on all clips, and changing the destination folder to a folder on a completely different hard drive, and it still _1's my clips: Is there any way to prevent Adobe Media Encoder from adding a _1 to my clip names when I change the transcoding destination of all clips in my queue? Or is there a better way to change the destination folder without tweaking the preset? Clicking the output file path only opens the destination folder in Finder. Can't wait to hear what you all think!
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