Adobe Media Encoder Dogged?

[Todd Roush]

Well, there’s the good, the bad, and the ugly.

I thought it was garbage when I first used it and I HATE, that I have to use the media encoder to do quick exports of what used to be “movie” or “still” because when you’re exporting 100 stills for a montage it literally takes 10 times as long sending it to ME.

That said, it is kind of cool to be able to send multiple clips to ME and render them all automatically later, once you’re done doing your other work.

I don’t think it’s any slower for longer projects but certainly for some shorter ones it is. It is deceiving because it is VERY time consuming initially before the countdown begins. I actually thought for weeks that it just didn’t work but it’s really doing some kind of dll thing before sending it to ME.

I think it’s the same amount of time once you get it going….really slow for short stuff and abut the same.

I wish they would not have taken away the option to go straight to “movie” (AVI) or Still. Obviously there are no Event editors working for Adobe or they would have been screaming when they killed this critical option which I know has sent many running for Vegas.

I am hopeful that like Panasonic, there are Adobe folks scouring these forums in an effort to improve what appears to be a very premature software release.

I’ve never had more trouble with any software but it IS working fine for me now after months of tweaking and finally buying a computer specifically for CS4.

Best,

Todd

Todd Roush
Dreamscape Digital Media
Canon XH-A1’s – Dell Studio XPS i7, 920, 2.66 gig,6 gigs RAM (soon to be 12) 650 gig SATA, 1TB eSATA external, 3TB USB(storage). 512gig ATI video card, 28″ HannsG Monitor, 24″ Dell Monitor.

[Vince Becquiot]

It really depends on the machine you are using. If I want to do a quick export on our field laptop, it might take 20-30 seconds to process, but on our Quadcore edit machines it takes just a few seconds.

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Adrian Sancho]

Thanks for your replies. The machine is not a problem. I find it odd that I can view the timeline in realtime with all the effects and processes added, yet when it goes to render it chokes. It’s not like I’m going out to 2k or something. It’s UNCOMPRESSED SD. Something’s definitely not right. Premiere itself appears to work fine, but that Media Encoder, SHEESH!

>>I wish they would not have taken away the option to go straight to “movie” (AVI) or Still.<< Was this available in Premiere Pro CS3? I may consider going to that if necessary. I haven't worked with Premiere in several years, since the original Premiere Pro, which was way too unreliable out for me (as were previous versions before that, BSOD-PRO anyone 😀 ). This new version seems OK (so far), save for that insistence on using the Media Encoder.

[Todd Roush]

Almost every Premiere user I know now owns a copy of Vegas as a workaround. I too jumped on that bandwagon and it’s worked fine. Were it not for the significantly different interface (my fingers have lots of keys memorized and I’m months behind on my jobs) I think CS4 would be in much bigger trouble.

I am doing OK with mine but I never installed Bridge or Encore which may in fact have been the problem?

Bridge likes to run in the background like….McCaffee.

Best,

Todd

Todd Roush
Dreamscape Digital Media
Canon XH-A1’s – Dell Studio XPS i7, 920, 2.66 gig,6 gigs RAM (soon to be 12) 650 gig SATA, 1TB eSATA external, 3TB USB(storage). 512gig ATI video card, 28″ HannsG Monitor, 24″ Dell Monitor.

[Todd Roush]

PS, I lied, I did install Bridge and Encore, I just turned Bridge off.

***One Note: It may be that going from .AVI to uncompressed .AVI is time consuming? Does Premiere capture in uncompressed .AVI?

Best,

Todd

Todd Roush
Dreamscape Digital Media
Canon XH-A1’s – Dell Studio XPS i7, 920, 2.66 gig,6 gigs RAM (soon to be 12) 650 gig SATA, 1TB eSATA external, 3TB USB(storage). 512gig ATI video card, 28″ HannsG Monitor, 24″ Dell Monitor.