Kevin, Appreciate the video, BUT I did NOT have to do any of this in Adobe Premiere CC 2017. Adobe can't honestly say they are making progress in 2018, 2019 when their 2017 product performs better with MP4 files. More things to note, media encoder frequently doesn't complete ... gets to 99% and just stops. Incredibly annoying when working processing has been going for 5 hrs ... only way out is to end task via Task Manager, not acceptable for a product claiming to be "professional". Adobe's stop button does NOTHING, bring up a message of "are you sure" and then nothing, eventually get a "Not responding" ... what's the point in having a cancel/stop button if it actually doesn't work? ProRes, GoPro Cineform, DNxHD/HR (which is 1080p only) generate files that are 20X to 30X larger than my source MP4 file, so a 2GB MP4 gets converted to 40-60GB MOV ... is Adobe honestly trying to suggest this is acceptable for professional workflow? Proxy, like you say, requires management, again, time I don't have ... I get paid to produce content NOT to work around problems in editing software ... problems that don't exist in CC 2017. Sooooo ... I know you are just trying to help people out, but we professionals really want to know WHY? What did Adobe do to CC 2018 and CC 2019 that broke it performance? These issues don't exist in CC 2017 using the EXACT same MP4 files, I mean exactly the same, so clearly some development decision was made that IS/WAS a bad for performance ... it baffles me that Adove refuse to address the problem. These work arounds ARE NOT solutions. I expect more for my years of paying monthly fees for software that keeps getting worse on the performance front. So what's the real problem Adobe? Stop the insanity and please be transparent, MP4 used to work just fine in CC 2017, now they don't. Rob.
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