When I press No, it comes back in like half a second. So far have tried to reinstall everything, cleared cache. Problem is still there. Thanks to that it is impossible to leave something rendering over night without some stupid macro workaround method.
Well, CC2018 AME is slow and hangs while making proxies r doing normal h264 render. CC2019 version of it finally fixed the slowness problem for me, but the fact that I need to be next to computer to make proxies is frustrating.
The exact same issue started for me today. I have a little over a dozen or so files waitign to encode in Adobe Media Encoder 2020 and the popup came up after encoding a few files. The popup kept coming back after clicking "No." I have to clock "No" after every file encodes or it won't move on to encode the next one.
I'm experiencing this as well. Latest version of ME (14.8) and logged into CC. I tried logging out and logging back into CC but no luck. One of my last sessions of PP just up and decided to quit too.
Same thing for me, but I'm on Windows and only encoding a single file. On this one I'm exporting from After Effects to Media Encoder. The oddest part is when it does this when exporting from another adobe app, that Adobe App also did it, except I only had the option to save or not and had to close AE.
Update intel graphics, update NVIDIA\other discreet Graphics, install adobe software by installing each update in succession, and finally, go to antivirus and unblock all adobe related apps. This also involved a refresh of Creative Cloud app, and a force quit of all adobe processes in active memory before starting the creative cloud app. The steps above enabled all apps to function normally. I had issues with everything, and found that what adobe has now done is to modularize their apps, making small apps run inside a windowed process so that each small process can be tackled in a modular fashion. This has both benefits and retractions. In SAAS, software as a service, the modular model allows for troubleshooting targeted areas, and enables faster turnaround; it also allows for updating, enhancing and otherwise moving forward. The downside is that you'll have more apps to worry about when you have an antivirus, or other security running on your machine that requires foreknowledge or proper setup so your software is "Trusted", and you'll have problems until that is handled. Since many users are only at the level of user not administrator, this has to be handled by somebody not using the software everyday, and it makes it difficult for businesses to work with unless you send out a massive warning about just this kind of problem. That also makes you look less competent to some who don't know the specifics and degrades consumer confidence, which is what they hope to avoid by not putting out a grand notice of this issue.
I have at least temporarily fixed this problem again. I noticed that the creative cloud app had an issue as well, so I thought it might be related. Check if your CC App continually logs you out. If so, this will help you. Here's what I did: Log out of Creative Cloud from the app. Close all apps from adobe and creative cloud using the process monitor, open creative cloud app again and log in. This will update the caches with new data. Try media encoder again.
On a possibly related note, I had a strange suspicion that Encoder might be asking me if I really wanted to quit premiere... even though the prompt was coming from Encoder. So after doing your log out/log in method, I re-opened media encoder and restarted the process of creating proxies for 27 interviews, and it was doing okay, but ALSO, I had premiere open, and did not quit premiere. I was actually not getting the media encoder prompt previously, until I quit premiere. I didn't think premiere had to be open for media encoder to work, but maybe it does in some strange buggy world?
This is happening to me as well. Seemingly after I opened another adobe app and it asked me to login- encoder decided to start trying to quit ... asking over and over like you said because I was 2/3 through with a 10hr render.... which upsets me to no end I assure you.
This is the exact situation I'm going through right now. Its beyond frustrating. I'm glad to know that it will keep rendering. Thanks for that helpful information. I thought a full work day was lost for sure.
I'm having the same problem too. Been trying to export a 1.2GB file since yesterday. It kept crashing and now this. Thought I'm paying too much for my new hobby of making videos but obviously it doesnt even worth the money.
Created a video in Premiere and AME just stops and hangs when it reaches a certain part of the video. Premiere won't export it either. I have created dozens of videos so I have no idea what's different this time. The video is about 10 minutes of 4k drone footage with a music back - super simple.
I have reset Premiere (shift-alt on startup) and deleted all the cache files. I rendered the clip where encoder hangs and then added it back, then I deleted the clip entirely, then I deleted the clip and the music track and no matter - it stops in the same place every time (about 14% done with Premiere, and about 14 minutes in on what AME estimates is a 2 hour job).
I read a few places that people had a "bad clip" in their video, and once they removed it it worked - how on earth am I supposed to find the one "bad" clip if premiere previews fine and the clip in question isn't the one AME stops on?
This is what I was able to get to work for me. Your mileage may vary. When my Media Encoder would stop rendering I would click the "pause" button to pause the rendering operation that had stopped anyway. Press Ctrl-Alt-Del to bring up Task Manager. Under "Background Processes" you'll see Adobe After Effects. Click on it and then click "End task". AE will come right back up but it will be at much lower memory use. Un-pause your render job in ME and after a few seconds it should start going again.
Ok... that can happen in several cases:
a) one of the files is corrupted - and does not matter if it play ok - if file is corrupted in some specific way - it can play but durring rendering it will generate errors
b) maby some transition or effect doing that
How to check that? If
a) try to eiminate that clip on witch render freezes (or even that one and previous one) - if render goes ok - you have your corrupted file. To fix that - try to rerender that file as separate one in AME or any other rendering tool, if everyting will go ok - put you new rerendered file to your template.
b) the same thing as in a) turn off all transitions and effects in your composition/timeline. If your timeline is long and complicated shorten render area to that place where yiour render freezes and turn off all efffects only there and try to render. If render will go ok. turn on effects one by one until error will occure - and there will be your guity party.
Both Premiere 14.3.2 and Media Encoder 14.3.2 freeze at random points in my timeline that's a little over an hour long. These failure points change dramatically on each attempt (with no changes in the project file) and occur whether I select GPU or CPU rendering. Also, if I put in/out points before and after the failure points it works fine for that brief segment. I am also using an iMac Pro with 32GB RAM, plenty of disk swap space, and the latest Catalina update, 10.15.6. The only other application that's running at the same time is FireFox.
I have tried everything in this thread and nothing helps and I need to solve this problem for a commercial project with a deadline. Is there a stable third party rendering product that you can recommend?
I'm very young and I don't know how to properly fix things on after effects or media encoder. I've been crying non stop because of this and nothing works. I've uninstalled both media encoder and after effects and it doesn't work. If I try to render it through after effects and not media encoder, the video is black but the sound is still there! And when I open my after effects it opens TWO...I don't know what to do...did I do something on accident?!
Having the same issue in AME, but mine happens after I render multiple shorter clips, and hangs after 30-40 min of render time. Seems to be no rhyme or reason for what is causing the issue , as it occurs on different files at different points. The render simply stops, and doesn't say that it's paused. If I hit the Stop button, and I click the option to not finish the render before stopping, AME freezes completely and needs to be force quit before I can do anything.
I'm finding the issue persists in AME 2023. The answer above (ending AE in background processes) does seem to largely work, however, I wouldn't consider this as Adobe having "solved" the problem. We should be able to run a queue of files without hangs or freezes along the way. Also fyi -- I don't find the issue related to specific files or moments in a composition on my end as the encoder will freeze sometimes on a file and then render it totally fine without hiccups minutes later. Similarly I'll run 20 iterations based on a template and one file might hang/freeze while the other 19 don't, even though the animation and compositions are the exact same in each file -- the only difference is a change in text.
I am having the same problems... But, I found the problem (this can be different from yours offcourse). For me the problem was the "Add Grain" effect. I don't know a lot about the processing off this effect, but it really heavy when you want to render this on a full video. I think this was the cause of the freezing in the Encoder.
My workaround: Render the layer where you have your "heavy" effect on without the effect as an png sequence (this way you keep most of the quality). Then paste the png sequence in your timline and add your heavy effect on that. I don't know technically why this worked for me, but it did.
Always make sure all your programs are up to date before getting too frustrated and digging around too much. I had this same problem and saw that After Effects had an update available (last time I updated was less than 2 months ago). I updated it and was able to render without a problem.
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