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Any way to bypass Media Encoder in CS4 w/o going back to tape?
Howdy,
Folks at a Wedding Videography forum that I look at are being forced to abandon Adobe due to the way it forces you to use Media Encoder.
I know that I too may be forced to do the same or to go back to CS3 unless there is a workaround.
Currently as I (and many other wedding videographers) work through the project, we will dump STILLS (usually around 120) or BONUS CLIPS into a file for later montages and bonus features. Unfortunately, Premiere now seems to force you to go through Media Encoder and it takes a HECK of a lot longer. Like hours per project longer. If you do take the extra time to export everything into Media Encoder and Premiere crashes (an average of 2-3 times a day currently), you lose all your work.
Is there any way to go back to exporting to MOVIE and STILL without switching to CS3 or another software?
The other issue I have is that I can rarely get Media Encoder to work on either of my machines. I could not even open it (known issue) when I had CS3 but I could export to Movie.
Sorry for the long post, but this is seriously threatening to put me out of business and the interfaces on other softwares will probably cost me another month to catch up.
Thanks, any thoughts appreciated.
Best,
ToddTodd Roush
Dreamscape Digital Media
Panny DVX-100’s but changing so Sony or Cannon HDV soon. -
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hi Todd,
I am having similar problems with the AME. If it’s not one thing, it’s another. I have discovered that Quicktime files with strange Pixel Aspect Ratios often crash the AME.The AME is slower, sluggish, prone to crash, and unreliable in terms of quality. My current problem is that when exporting out of Premiere, I am getting what looks like typical DV compression on uncompressed clips. This didn’t use to happen with CS3 Premiere, but now it seems like Premiere is rendering my elements to DV first, and then rendering whatever parameters I have set in AME. Not good when you want an uncompressed Quicktime or AVI file. Not good at all.
So to answer your question, if you have CS3 disks it wouldn’t hurt to go back to them. I have spent a great deal of time trying to deal with the AME. I have spent a great deal of time on the Adobe forums, and on the phone with Adobe, and frankly they don’t have much to offer either.
If you figure out some magical way to export out of Premiere without the AME in CS4, I’d love to here it. My next thing is I’m gonna try exporting Premiere Sequences out of AE, see if that solves some of these quality loss issues I’m having.
Terry Hahin
Designer and Editor
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Some say it’s the HP systems and yet they are recommended by many sites and people are running them successfully.
Some say it’s the junkware on the HP systems so I have one with a fresh install but still with issues.
I’m going to reinstall CS3 and see if AME will open with the clean install of Vista 32.
Unfortunately no disks for CS3 but may have an EXE file on a desktop.
Best,
TOdd
Todd Roush
Dreamscape Digital Media
Panny DVX-100’s but changing so Sony or Cannon HDV soon. -
When you say going back to tape do you mean exporting to tape? Because I was in the exact same scenario as you, I couldn’t export my sequences in AME so I rendered my entire 50 minute sequence and exported to tape, and then recaptured the footage and used that captured clip to burn onto DVD. It might cost you a tape, but hey it is easier than starting again!
Plus I don’t think you would be able to open your project in CS3 being in a CS4 format.*Brainwave* Why didn’t Adobe just integrate their software to work in conjunction with Sorenson Squeeze?
Hope I helped out.
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