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No QT / PR422 option exporting via Media Encoder?
Hi all, I’m the videographer on an extended video project for a local theatre production, and I’m working out a good workflow with the editor. She’s working in FCPX, but I use Premiere CS6 to do initial audio sync and color grading. After adjusting color and audio, I need to be able to output the footage again in ProRes 422 HQ, 1080p, at 23.976 frames per second. I selected the Quicktime -> ProRes 422 HQ preset in Premiere, but changed the pixel aspect ratio to square and set the resolution, correspondingly, to 1920×1080 (rather than 1440 x 1080 with anamorphic pixels, which is the default).
This custom preset encodes just fine in Premiere as a .mov file, as expected. However, when I try to export it via Adobe Media Encoder, it defaults to a .f4v file. The only other options I have in Media Encoder are .flv and h.264. No options for Quicktime formats, much less ProRes.
This is obviously not satisfactory. Any ideas how to get Premiere sequences to output as ProRes 422 through Media Encoder? I’ve tried updating both software, and reinstalling FCPX in case AME wasn’t seeing my ProRes codec installation.
Thanks!
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Sounds like you don’t know where to look. Every option available in Premiere export is available in the Encoder. A simple way to get the footage out is if you’re in Premiere’s export window, click “Queue” instead of “export” and the sequence (and it’s settings) will be sent to Media encoder.
You’re absolutely right that there should be (and there is) a QT prores option in AME.
If you are still having trouble, can you attach a screenshot of the settings dialog where you can’t select QT?
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Thanks for the reply. I am pressing Queue, and am being correctly sent to Media Encoder. However, once there, I do not see any option for ProRes.
Here is the dialogue box when I press export in Premiere, including the settings I would like to use.
Here is the Adobe Media Encoder window that appears after I press Queue.
I couldn’t take a screenshot with the drop-down menus selected, but under Format I am limited to F4V, FLV, H.264, H.264 (Legacy), and MP3. With F4V selected, I have a number of presets available (including various “Match Source Attributes”, Mobile, PC & TV, Phone & Tablet, and Web options). H.264 gives all of the standard device and web output options. Obviously, neither Flash, H.264, nor MP3 formats will give me the ProRes preset that I need.
As you can see in the upper right panel, when I search “prores”, no presets appear.
Just to reiterate, Premiere recognizes that I have ProRes available as a codec, and exports my footage as ProRes just fine. The issue is that Media Encoder doesn’t give me that option. Unless I am missing something? Thanks again.
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Are you still in trial mode?
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Okay, that’s weird. Premiere / AME is doing something weird – your export presets should carry over into AME, and even if they didn’t, you should be able to change them in the encoder.
One last idea would be to click on the orange text that says “FLV” and in theory that should bring up the export dialog box again, and perhaps you’ll have access to more settings there?
There DEFINITELY should be Quicktime presets available to you, though… this is weird.
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When I did a clean install of OS Lion and CS6 I too saw that there was no ProRes options in Media Encoder. So I did a quick install of Final Cut (just FC7 and Color, nothing else from the FCS3 suite) this gave me all of the ProRes options within Media Encoder.
Hope this helps.
Do you have FCP laying around somewhere?Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, Alaska
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It’s so frustrating! I’m having the exact same problem..
It’s not just about ProRes not being there, the entire quicktime output module is missing in AME.
I read a lot about it, and usually it seems to be somehow influenced by the kind of install you have. Like if you only install flash, and AME is installed with it, you won’t get quicktime. But if you install the entire Master Collection, it should be there, but just isnt.I’m having a thread in the adobe forums, but no one came up with a solution there neither…
Trying to reinstall FCP 7 now! -
reinstalled fcp 7 studio -> No effect!
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Wow, I am stumped. It worked here but reading your other post about what all is installed, I DO have the entire Master collection but I have not installed everything yet. I am traveling now but will be back to the studio tomorrow and let you know what all I have installed currently.
Hope we get this figured out for you.
All the best,Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, Alaska
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Hi all, just a quick update. Reinstalling FCPX did NOT fix it for me. However, this did: https://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=5411
Thanks for your help everyone.
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I’m glad that things worked out. I had this issue a month ago with half of the codec options missing. (in my case, the codec that I was looking for and couldn’t find was MXF.) It was fixed by the first update to AME, 6.0.1.
Are you still perhaps running 6.0.0?
John-Michael
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