I am having the an issue when I try to render a Quicktime ProRes 422 master. I can encode it without problems within Premiere, but when I send it to AME I get the Export Error message, with error code 2147287036 listed. I am on a brand new 27 iMac Retina 5K, 4.2 Ghz processor, 64GM RAM, and a Radeon Pro 580 with 6 GB VRAM. This is a fresh install of Creative Cloud. There are no previous versions running on this system, as I installed Creative Cloud apps for the first time on Thursday. I am running 12.1.2 on both Premiere and Media Encoder.

To be clear, I only encounter the issue when rendering a ProRes file from AME. I can render the same sequence as a H.264 for example, within AME. Or I can render a ProRes file of the sequence within Premiere. But not ProRes within AME.

Please advise.

I would really like to see more work be done on the Direct Publishing features that make it more automated when posting to social media, My suggestion would be to have the ability to have either a file or panel (some sort of dashboard) that has default content and an area to add a description that then gets updated into each preset in any given designated watch folder settings, essentially automatically propagating to all platforms with related Tags updated in the dashboard and only having to render out one file and thus posting to all platforms (using predetermined Presets nested in Watch Folders)

As it stands now one can automate the output of the individual file sizes and codecs for each platform but then will have to post each video to each platform manually. Or one can go into each social media setting and set default content for each preset but will have to add post specific content on a case per case basis for each file being exported (this mostly being duplicated for multiple platforms, with some exceptions). This being said it would be great to be able have a way to manage the user defined Direct publishing Presets without having to go into each context menu for each Publish.

Media encoder always worked fine for me up until the first 2018 CC update. Since then AME has been pretty close to useless. AME will use up all of my machine's RAM, (64gb) no matter how much I limit or increase the RAM usage within preferences. I've set all of my cache and memory folders to an external drive and I've exhausted every option to try and address this issue both on my own and with the assistance of adobe customer support and nothing works. The latest update of AME did not fix the issue either. It is killing the workflow of my company to have to export all of our batch projects one at a time through Premiere. This issue is pretty awful and I'm losing time and money as a result of it on a daily basis. Please address.

AE Grain effect is one of the powerful grain Ive seen.
I mainly use it to cancel banding (OnionRings) when encoding to MP4s.
It should be used as effect inside of encoder+be much faster because it is a very heavy effect.

Adding grain to a file makes it easy to get rid of banding, AE Grain effect knows:
1. To put grain in places based on highlights and shadows(where the risk of banding is usually high)
2. To put different amount of noise on different color channels. (Usually its enough for the encoder to have more detail in the blue channel ans less on the red and green, so there is no need to destroy the all quality of the picture.