There is a bug that I have yet to see explained exactly the same as I am experiencing it. I'm trying to transcode some MP4 h.264 files into a higher compressed h.264 file to better fit in it's playback medium. I thought the issue was the computer going to sleep pausing the render, even though that should not have been the case.
-Fresh install of Windows 10 1809
-drop multiple mp4 files into AME, hit start and it will go for a while.
-after a few minutes it stops rendering. No error, no immediate crash. Just no movement, no change in Remaining time. Even the elapsed timer is locked up and not changing.
-Trying to stop the cue causes AME to become unresponsive, causing me to force quit it.
-checked all power settings and changed them to keep computer and monitor awake all the time, etc.
-Same issue persists.
-Tried adding in just one file instead of the multiple from before.
-Same issue, and funny enough, the Elapsed time is stuck at EXACTLY the same point as it was the last time (8:51)...... Computer never went to sleep.

This is an observation of problems with AME 2018 exports after many hours of paintstaking work late at night to try to produce a H264 Based Blu Ray disc through Encore 6, but I suspect other authoring SW would have same issue.

I know Encore 6 is a legacy product and out of support - but AME version 2017 encoded H264 blu ray files which always worked fine.

There is also a thread on Encore Community Forums about this issue where other people have found same problem as well.

Today I see no way to produce a Blu Ray H264 based disc with files encoded from Media Encoder 2018. This newer version has caused problems.

Whilst Adobe may feel Blu Ray discs are defunct and we should use Streaming ... this problem with Media Encoder 2018 needs fixing as in some cases we need to produce Blu Ray discs of our project/work.

Adobe Engineering Team : can you have a quick look at the difference between H264 encoded Blu Ray files from AME 2017 to AME 2018 please. Why is it broken ..and fix it please.

Feedback welcomed.

Adobe media encoder sorely need the ability to batch change render setting presets on all videos selected.
Example: Let's say I want to render 100 video from After Effects and send them to AME, then it chooses the last used render setting by default when loaded into AME. If I want to change I have to manually (!) add new render settings/preset to Every single of the 100 videos and then manually (!) delete the previous setting so I don't render each video two times. Also it automatically makes new names for the new video setting I added so I have to Manually (!) rename every single file. I hope you see how non-productive this is when rendering many files?

AME is suppose to to make rendering movies more efficient, but without this feature, it very often serves no purpose or is more tedious than actually rendering straight in AE of Premiere.

Please add this feature Adobe!

I believe we can all benefit from having a nice sound effect that indicates when a Render has Failed or Completed successfully.

It is incredibly frustrating to come back to my computer to see that devilish Red 'X', shamelessly telling me that AME decided to spontaneously abort mission without warning. Now this is, obviously, very frustrating and can ruin your entire mood and workflow. But, what if it didn't?

What if there was a little more satisfaction in successfully rendering a composition? Now here me out, I'm sure most of us have played a game or two at some point. A very popular video game in today's era is a game called, "Super Smash Bros." In this game there is a very iconic announcer with an extremely satisfying voice. There's a bit in the game where he says the words "Failure" and "Complete", based upon the players success on finishing a level.

Below I will link a sound bit from the Nintendo 64 version which happens to be my favorite announcer voice. I will also link a video made by an After Effects user who played the game. The skit accurately displays the amount frustration that the game can induce. I think it is also a good analogy to what it feels like when Adobe Media Encoder has a render failure.

If we had these sound effects in Adobe Media Encoder as indication of Render Failures and Completions I think users will very much appreciate it and enjoy the software much more!

Super Smash Bros Nintendo 64: https://youtu.be/P02YSj7A4s4?t=90

Rage Video: https://youtu.be/2fJf5bVDOug

I'm seeing a tremendous number of problems on long transcodes with camera cuts in the dailies. I'm working on a doc feature including a lot of Hi8 and MiniDV tapes. The source tapes are captured in long chunks, often over an hour. Within this are camera cuts, crash recorded blank tape spots, etc - the usual amateur issues. The source clips are all perfect on import. However, most of the transcodes (to ProRes 1080 @23.98) have serious problems as follows:

- clips can be truncated, i.e. can be 30 mins or more shorter than source clip.
- clips have internal problems. The audio continues correctly, but 20 mins of video will disappear. The means from this point in the transcoded clip on, the clip is completely out of sync, and the picture is permanently missing. Resulting clip is shorter than source.

Most of these problems seem to occur on the above mentioned recording errors, but not always. Often in the middle of a continuously recorded conversation, 20 mins will have just disappeared.

The result is a nightmare as I have to go back and create new, shorter Quicktime sources from the master source clip, then transcode these until I can get a clip that works.

See This wasted a whole day of rendering because even though I visually verified that the "Video is VR" checkbox was unselected, it still rendered with VR metadata.
Steps used to recreate:

1. Take two Gear 360 (2016) videos and drop into AME. See droptostitch.png
2. Verify that Export Settings->Video->"Video is VR" is unselected without making any changes.
3. Observe that the video is set to render as "Match source - high bitrate". At this point if left to render it will render with the "Video is VR" metadata injected. See result.png
4. To fix this issue you currently have to go in and manually check and uncheck the "Video is VR" box. Now returning to the main screen you'll see that instead of being "Match source - High bitrate" it will render as "Custom". Now the video will render as expected, sequencing the source clips together without injecting the Video is VR metadata. See expectedresult.png

Ability to modify naming conventions upon exporting image sequences and multiple files i.e. uniform amount of digits within the sequences frame number suffix. For example:

EXR_Export_Frame_00001 ... EXR_Export_Frame_10000

instead of the current default, which would export like

EXR_Export_Frame_1 ... EXR_Export_Frame_10000

The non-uniform digit amount in the sequence suffix creates problems when importing sequences with many frames into Nuke for example, as Nuke wants to group sequences based on how many characters are in their name rather than only reading the linear numerical sequence. Therefore, you would either have far too many read nodes OR have to batch rename the beginning portion of files in the sequence which can easily be done in Bridge if you have a reasonable amount of files. But if you're working with a 5 minute long EXR sequence exported from 4K 10-bit LOG Footage composed of over 20,000 files, this process now becomes quite unreasonable because of Bridges ridiculous need to populate image thumbnails for each file in the sequence. Which brings me to my second request... The ability to switch off thumbnails and caching of specific file groups or types in Bridge. This makes certain batch rename operations unnecessarily long and clutters GPU performance and valuable disk space which makes this operation nearly impossible if trying to complete on the go.

All this could be avoided if we simply had more control over naming conventions in the first place or at the very least being able to batch rename in Bridge without being interfered by its ridiculous amount of over processing. I realize I could easily download 3rd party programs to perform the same function, but I pay for Adobe Creative Suite and believe in the products to do what I need so I would rather use your programs.

When creating an Encoding preset, not all the installed LUTs, that show in PP, appear in the Lumetri Look / LUT dropdown. Further, I have been unable to import 3rd party Panasonic LUTS using the "Select" option in the dropdown. Apparently, the only compatible LUTs are in a legacy .ITX format? As a result, I am unable to apply a simple V-Log-to-Rec709 LUT to dailies footage that I want to transcode for client use, nor am I able to add such LUTs when creating proxy files. None of the supplied LUTs appear to have been designed as technical LUTs to convert log footage to Rec709.