Premiere Pro CS4 Does not support rendering streaming content!

[Eddie Lotter]

Read the Exporting for the web section of the PPro CS4 Help to see what PPro can do.

Cheers
Eddie

[Tim Kolb]

[Christopher Donald] ”
Windows Media is the only option for streaming media in Adobe Premiere
Pro CS4. This can be accessed in the Format box. There are no other
options for streaming media. You may have to seek third party software
to achieve these means.”

This is simply insane and incorrect. I suspect someone is in deep trouble, but for misinformation…AME has the same output capabilities that CS# AME had plus a bit…

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

CPO, Digieffects

[Christopher Donald]

Tim,

Thank you very much for taking the time to respond to my posting.

I always found it strange that in CS3 you would have to select a streaming preset in order to see the streaming options (hinting tracks, etc). The problem with CS4 is that they took away every streaming option except for the presets with WMV files. Even encoding using Sorenson will not allow you to set the encoder to optimize for streaming (you can see this if you try encoding in Sorenson and then click the codec properties).

I was hoping that I could open the old presets from CS3, which at first glance it appears that you can with the new AME (it has an option to open CS3 preset files if you try loading a preset). When I try to open any of my old CS3 presets though, I just get a generic error message that my presets are invalid (most likely because they were all streaming presets).

To compound the problem, the max bitrate setting in CS4 doesn’t work for H264 content using VBR. Even when you set the max bitrate, the final file can almost double the max bitrate for extended periods of time (which this is a confirmed bug by Adobe).

After many contacts with their support department, I have given up and re-installed CS3. Although the new features in Premiere CS4 are fantastic, I literally cannot do my job without being able to render out for a streaming server.

I hope that for the amount that I spent on CS4 I can use it at some point in the future.

[Lucas Catturini]

Adobe media encoder CS4 has stopped working…

A problem caused the program to stop working CORRECTLY. Windows will close the program and notify you if solution is available

Adobe Media Encoder CS4 has stopped working…