Bug: third party VST audio plugins are bypassed when rendering videos from Premiere Pro
After upgrading Creative Cloud to 2021.
VST plugins are bypassed when rendering videos from Premiere Pro. However, if exported directly from Premiere Pro, VST effects are applied, no problem.


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Toby Wallwork commented
I think this may have been resolved at one point, only to comeback again. I did not have this issue until I updated Media Encoder to 22.5 last week. I’m on an M1 Mac mini (MacOS 12.4). Premiere Pro 22.5 exports the file correctly.
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Frieder Dillmann commented
same problem here using beatrig sidekick vst plugin.
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Chris V. commented
Hello Adobe... Any comment?
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Gabriele Lo Surdo commented
Same problem here.
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Gabriel Pass commented
Agreed! I am using up-to-date VST3 plugins from iZotope and Waves. All work perfectly in real-time playback from Premiere, and all are being bypassed in renders from the latest version of Media encoder.
Those of us who rely on Premiere to achieve really professional results are often invested in costly collections of audio plugins, we have honed our application of them as a critical part of our craft, and absolutely need them to work.This always used to work, so it's clearly a bug.
Dear Adobe Development team, we appreciate the work you do to maintain this valuable product.
This one is serious for those of us who rely on achieving professional results from Premiere.
Please prioritize the resolution of this issue. -
Chris V. commented
Maybe this could be because the extra VST directories that have been added in premiere pro (and audition) are have not been send to media encoder?
It would be great to have [one place] to set directories to look for third party VST audio effects for all adobe programs that use them.
Audition / Premiere / Premiere Rush(?)/After effects / MEDIA ENCODER
Or that when I change the directories in Premiere pro that the other adobe programs know the directories also. -
Chris V. commented
Same. It diid work normal before the last update.
(There has been this bug before):-(
Sad. -
Gareth Hughes commented
same
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Jake Pierce commented
Same
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MOTIK PRODUCTIE commented
Same problem here
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Florent Porta commented
Same Problem here
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Pénélope Jolicoeur commented
Same here.
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Dennis Pombo commented
Same here.
Just found out the problem.
It was all normal befor the latest update.