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Does Premiere Pro allow for MPEG editing? I wish it would.
Any project I do that is at all complex eventually gives me a crash during MPEG compression with the dreaded message “Failed to return a video frame”. By editing the resultant bits and pieces of rendered MPEG as a pathetically desperate work-around I could at least get a project out in a complete state to DVD.
Yes, I have put in all the Premiere Pro and Media Encoder updates. Nothing works. Earlier when first I had these problems which Adobe’s tech team could not solve, it just passed the buck to Media Encoder and told me I would have to work it out with them.
But Premiere Pro licences my Canopus hardware as compatible and it includes Media Encoder as part of the software package I paid for. As I see it, it is therefore Premiere Pro front and center on the carpet. Adobe needs to be the guiding force to work out these bugs. Even if the problem were with my hardware or 3rd party software, Adobe should take responsibility and see the solution though.
I went to a Premiere Pro promotion recently here in Vancouver that started its pitch by alleging that Adobe is listening to its customers. You could have fooled me.
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1. MPEG is primarly meant for delivery and not for editing (unless you are editing HDV, I guess)
2. If you want to edit MPEG videos, purchase the MPEG Pro Plugin from MainConcept
3. Regarding “Failed to return a video frame”, try turning off your system’s hyperthreading. -
I am being facetious.
It is demeaning to NEED to resort to the likes of an MPEG editor when Premiere Pro’s implementation of Media Encoder is NOT doing the MPEG output I need except in fits and starts.
Thanks for tip 3 though. This is not an option suggested to me over the hours and hours and hours of useless Adobe telephone support I’ve logged on this one maddening matter that had cost me incalculable productivity time.
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You may have had better resuts, if you would have called me 🙂
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I called my dealer to learn how to turn off multi-threading, assuming it was an operation I would have to do in Windows. He didn’t know, so I’m guessing it is a Premiere Pro setting. But where?
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Not a Premiere Pro setting. When booting up your system, go into your BIOS (F2 or F12) and then look for the Hyperthreading option.
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You can turn off HT in Windows…with Premiere running, run Task Manager and select the Processes tab. Right click on Premiere.exe and choose “Set Affinity” and deselect Processor 1, leaving Processor 0 checked.
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