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Media Encoder CS4 Punch List
Got a few gripes – hoping someone might have a solution or knowledge of the reason for these. I will say that the update made Media Encoder much more stable and faster.
1. When I import a Premiere sequence into Media encoder by “exporting” from Premiere, Media encoder automatically sets the output file name to the sequence name. But if I import a Premiere Sequence directly into Media Encoder, without Premiere running, it sets the output file name to the project name.
2. No matter where my source file or sequence resides, Media encoder wants to set the output file location to a default location, never where the source file comes from. This is a problem if importing multiple sequences at once – you need to manually change the destination directory and file name for each individual item in the batch.
3. If a file or sequence fails to render, rather than stopping the whole batch, it would be nice if it could skip the offending file and keep going. This is a problem when you “set it and forget it”, go home for the night, and find in the morning that only 2 out of 10 files have rendered.
These are fairly minor usability issues. Once the rendering starts it is actually pretty fast based upon the source.
Mike Cohen
Core 2 Duo, 3 gigs ram, XP SP2.
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All valid issues, and I’ve pulled my hair out at night as well when having to manually set complex folder hierarchy, but not unique to Adobe I’m afraid.
That’s until I found that choosing “recent places” in Vista speeds things up quite a bit. Leave to MS to get rid of that feature in Win 7 🙂
Skipping a bad render would be nice as well.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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Mike,
I second those gripes and would like to add:4. Media Encoder should allow items in the cue to be “unchecked” so that the render will skip them without having to delete the entire line item and lose all of its settings.
5. I would also like to be able to save versions of the cue. Rather than having all of your render history pile up in one place, it would be nice to save each cue along with its respective project/client.
I think all of these issues exist because Media Encoder is in its infancy. It will be nice to see this tool develop in the forthcoming versions. Basically, if Adobe uses After Effects’ render queue as a template–it would make a lot of people happy.
James Brady
Senior Editor
Results Video & Animation
El Paso, Texas
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Luckily my hair pulling days are over. I do a lot of chin scratching. I used to be prone to banging my fist against the desk, but once or twice that caused something to reboot!
Let’s keep our fingers crossed for CS5 improvements. Question is will CS5 still work with XP?
Mike Cohen
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[Mike Cohen] “Question is will CS5 still work with XP?”
I’d say by then you will likely be much better off with Win7.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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[Vince Becquiot] “you will likely be much better off with Win7.”
Let’s hope so!
James Brady
Senior Editor
Results Video & Animation
El Paso, Texas
http://www.resultsvideo.com
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