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AME Proxies Progress Bar Stuck – Bugged Audio?
Recently, I’ve adopted proxies into my Premiere Pro workflow for my YouTube channel. I’ve been working with ridiculously large files (60 GB each), and while I’m working on getting those file sizes smaller for future edits, I still have to maintain a timely editing schedule.
Because of their size, I can’t edit these files without encountering large amounts of lag in Premiere. The lag is so bad that it’s practically not even worth editing. It feels like I’m stumbling around in a dark cave trying to paint the Mona Lisa with a toothbrush. ?
However, using proxies completely eliminates the editing lag I would normally experience with files this big. I’ve been able to successfully make proxies for similar size .mp4 files with no issue. However, once or twice a video, I’ll run into two files that Adobe Media Encoder just can’t seem to create a proxy for. It starts encoding the proxy just fine, but 15-65% of the way through, the progress bar will completely freeze.
Whenever it runs into the issue, that file is completely bugged. There’s no way to get AME to render a proxy for that specific file. Yet I’ll still be able to get it to render a proxy for another file recorded with the same program (OBS), same OBS settings, same file size, same file type. No matter what type of proxy I try to create (QuickTime, H.264, ProRes, etc.), nor what quality proxy I try to create (Low, Medium, High), AME will be unable to create a proxy on these bugged files.
The very first time I encountered this issue, it was with a specific file that I had also encountered Premiere problems with. About halfway through the file, Premiere couldn’t generate the rest of the audio waveform. Premiere would still operate as normal up until a ~20 second radius of where the audio waveform cut off. If my playhead got in that radius, Premiere locked up, and there was no way to get it back besides restarting and instantly moving my playhead away from that space on the timeline.
The strange thing is…the audio was still there. I could open up the file and play it in VLC just fine. I could venture into the part of the file that was crash Premiere with no audio or video problems. Since I couldn’t generate a proxy to replace that bugged audio, the only solution I found was deleting the audio track on that video file, and using a backup microphone track that I had luckily recorded.
Based on this experience, I feel like the issue that Premiere had with the file is completely audio-based, and I would guess the same for AME. I just have no clue what that issue is, or remotely how to go about fixing it.
If anybody could assist me in getting to the bottom of this issue, that would be fantastic. I’m in a very awkward position where my edits take 2-4 days longer than usual since I have to go through a testing phase where I render each proxy, then find the audio waveform cutoff points in Premiere where I need to replace each file with the backup audio. I also have to deal with considerable lag, since I can’t generate video proxies for any of these files that have the bugged audio.
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