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Adobe Media Encoder CS4 NOT RESPONDING….EVER
CS4 works great on my Time Machine Mac System at work. But on my brand new PC at the house running Vista 64-bit Home Premium on myQuad Core Intel Processor with 8 Gigabytes of Ram.
Adobe Media Encoder can’t ever seem to encode ANYTHING. I’ve about had it trying to figure it out. It gets stuck in a loading state, FOREVER and then proceeds to encode if it’s not a file bigger than a minute or two of DVCPRO HD 720p footage. Anything longer and I pray to God that he’ll allow it to encode and sometimes it does. Most of the time it gets stuck in a NOT RESPONDING state. Sometimes, if I break up a sequence into smaller sections, it works but I still have to wait FOREVER for each sequence to load. And sometimes it gets stuck in a NOT RESPONDING state for no reason. And when I do it again with all the same settings, it miraculously works as if my prayers were answered (perhaps they were?)This is SILLY Adobe. Is there some kind of fix for this? Am I Missing a crucial update or does technology just hate me?
I tried the fix I’ve seen for similar issues that involved copying a premiere shortcut into the dynamic link folder and that didn’t seem to help much. I’ve never had CS3 installed previously on this system either.
I am baffled. I just dropped about a grand into this system primarily to house Adobe’s Suite Collection. Did I waste my money? Or is there going to be a way for me export all the hard work I did without having to kill an extra 10 hours for a 2 hour job every single time?? Assuming of course that it will export, eventually.
Just exporting the audio was a doozy. I’ve given up at the moment and am taking the P2 exports I was able to generate up to the work computer and I’m finishing everything up there. What a drag that I have to do this.
Please somebody help!!
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By the way, I’ve noticed that both Premiere AND Media Encoder appear to be very sensitive. If you touch it the wrong way it will decide not to respond to you forcing you to restart
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I wish I had an answer for you man, but I don’t. I googled the words, “I hate adobe media encoder cs4” and this was top of the list. Everything you described is exactly the same behavior I have been dealing with for the last several months. I’ve tried a half dozen suggested fixes, have everything up to date, and usually sacrifice a kitten and cross my fingers every time I attempt to export from Premiere Pro through the CS4 Encoder.
It’s becoming harder and harder to supress my fantasies of sending multiple letter bombs to whoever engineered this piece of shit. Luckily, my therapist has me on meds for that though.
Simple exports that used to take 10-15 minutes now tend to take nearly 40 minutes to an hour due to the time I waste sitting around waiting for shit to “load”… and sometimes, just not at all.
Time to google photos of kittens or puppies or something or the anger will begin to rise again.
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I have worked with Premiere Pro for 5 years now in High Definition 1920x1080p mov H264 files from a Canon 5D mark II & Canon HV20 1920×1080/1440×1080 Cineform avi Export to Tape & Export to Movie and never go near the Encoder, it seems to do its own thing .45 min of clips in H264 takes about 4-5 hours to render & transcode with an older computer overnight.And when it does it, it does it well.
However, Adobe advise me to-day that Creative Suite CS5 will be out on 15 April and it may solve all our problems.I think it is the HD codecs causing the problems on our PC.Final Cut Pro has updated .
Freelance Imaging & Video
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Very Strange, as I DO NOT have these problems at all! At the moment, I am either working in projects at 10-30 secs for spots or a few minutes for demos, to around 45 minute projects of 1920x1080i or p. Have never had a problem exporting out of Premiere Pro CS4 nor Adobe Media Encoder. In fact, this past year, when strange formats came in at my main working site (Avid Systems), where it would not play with the format nor would the delivered Sorenson, I always ended up using one of my Systems with Adobe Media Encoder to save the day. I can not say too much about render times, as I am using an older HP xw8200 Workstation with AJA Xena/Kona and it does not have a massive punch as to be expected. But, it does work through the footage and does not hang in any way.
@ Bob, what are/were you thinking about?? H264 on an older System and worrying about performance. H264 is a Beetch to deal with…….. (not wanting to bash) but get a Real Machine or deal with a Format which is better to work with.
Sorry, just my 2 (Euro) Cents!
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Jeff,
You are right my old computer has got to go, but, I too have not had problems with the encoder, I will go to CS5 as soon as possible. My point was it works on my old computer untill I ran into H.264 mov and then it slowed down.(Retired Canon CPS Member)
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Bob,
ok, got it now, think I misintrepreted your post, my appologies.
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follo this
Edit/preferences/scratch disks (change location)
n than go in media click on clean
hope its work
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No clue if this is similar to your problem..
When I press export to adobe media encoder from Premiere, the export settings screen often doesn’t show up unless I “windows key” + “arrow key” it into my screen. On ALT+F4 the export settings screen can be closed to make sure Premiere hasn’t actually crashed.
This might be the solution to other peoples’ problems..
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