This software is called media ENCODER so technically this doesn't really fall under it's rubric but, since one can queue multiple encodes to different locations it would also be helpful to have post encoding options such as the ability to copy a finished job to multiple locations, this allows one to automatically output to all needed locations, but also avoid unnecessary re-encoding. It's just a convenience thing.

I am often encoding to an external drive to be used as a delivery medium, but that is not the location that will be used for archiving of the project. A given encode can be quite large and take a long time to copy and an even longer time to encode. It would be good to queue the encode to go to the delivery drive first, so that it's on there as quick as possible but also have it copy to the archive storage location afterwards. This will allow me to go away and do other tasks while media encoder works and have everything be in it's place on my return, but also minimise how long that hiatus needs to be.

It's simple: please stop allowing your programs to steal focus from one another (or anything at all for that matter). How many times a day when working in Premiere do I click "ctrl-m" to export a clip or video, then continue my work on the timeline in Premiere only to have Adobe Media Player STEAL FOCUS when I don't care AT ALL that it is importing something into its queue. I know it's importing. I requested that. DO IT IN THE BACKGROUND. There is NO REASON WHATSOEVER to interrupt my continued work just to make me WATCH THE IMPORT PROGRESS. It's unbelievably ridiculous and frustrating, and it happens hundreds of times in my workday, every day.

After Effects and Adobe Media Encoder 2020 are rendering h264 codec MP4s too bright. The colors are washed out slightly and what I'm assuming is a gamma shift. I'm using Windows 10, After Effects v17.1.4, Adobe Media Encoder v14.4, and Nvidia driver 451.77.

This issue does not exist on After Effects 2019 and Adobe Media Encoder 2019. The MP4s look as you would expect, using identical settings for export.

One additional finding was that using After Codecs plugin, I'm able to export an MP4 using the x264 codec and the colors are correct. That is also using AE and AME 2020. So, from what I'm gathering there is definitely an issue with AME 2020.

I find this annoying issue with nearly every release of AME, and have had it pop up off and on since 2004. This is not an issue with playback between video players, but specifically a color shift in the actual render. I'm not using any display profiles, and have After Effects set to not use a Workspace color profile in Project settings. Have also tested rendering the files with and without Hardware encoding turned on.

Would be happy to send additional info or files if needed. Thank you!

After exporting a batch with identical settings, and having one item fail & the others print successfully, I spent considerable time troubleshooting. I was given error code 7, and after lots of research, the only viable answer I found was 'roll it back to 2019'. This is not a fix. I decided to restart the program- that was a bad idea. It kept encountering an unexpected error, and quitting during launch.

I have spent the last 8 hours trying to get media encoder to open. It was getting stuck trying to load a premiere plugin from a non-existent folder within the 'common' folder in application support. I had never opened this folder before, much less altered it. So I updated every adobe program I have, thinking it may be a dynamic link issue. Nope, same error.

I uninstalled & reinstalled media encoder, and now it will open. However, it is not exporting a single file into h.265, this time logging no errors.

Now I am a day behind on work, my client is getting upset, and I guess I have to import my ProRes files into premiere and export them one by one. I have never in my life used a program as buggy as premiere & media encoder have been in the last few years. It seems like every problem I encounter has been around for months if not over a year, and adobe does nothing to fix these issues. I am about done with these horrible programs, and today has solidified my choice to migrate over to DaVinci Resolve. Not only does their program seem to have much fewer problems, but it is faster, more intuitive, and I don't feel like their customer service & devs ignore workflow hindering bugs like this. It's an absolute shame, but the Adobe suite is no longer the power-house it used to be.

Trying to export two versions / sizes to H264 MP4 from a source 1080p ProRes file. I'm using CUDA accelerated Mercury Playback Engine. AME behavior is inconsistent. First attempt resulted in one of the two desired outputs being completed successfully, with the second output failing without an error.

Tried switching to CPU Mercury Playback Engine, re-added file to the queue, set desired outputs, but this time both output files failed to render. No error, just failed.

I switched back to CUDA accelerated, re-added file/outputs, and this time both files output successfully.

I'm on Windows 10 Pro, with an AMD Threadripper 3990X, 256GB of RAM, and dual RTX 3090s...on the latest version of Media Encoder Version 14.6 (Build 42).

Also, it would be great to have a Bug category to select when leaving feedback. This is filed under stability because ...