[Alex Golo]

Thank you Merlin,

I am actually testing it with Sony actioncam MP4 source files and in CC2018 it did create cfa files, but in 2020 it doesn’t create cfa but only pek which is really strange…

Can still see/hear audio and all the waveforms so it’s a bit puzzling…)

[Alex Golo]

Hi Ryan:

This is a basic h.264 cuda encode-no effects with timecode overlay. windows media player will not play the file at all. However if I break up the file in 2 parts in AME (6 hours each) it works perfectly! It is obviously another bug by adobe which has not been fixed since forever! all you have to do is export the full 12 hour clip and duplicate outputs in AME and mark the in-out points for 6 hours first and second part. It works with no issues!

This is a 12-hr endurance race video.

So overall here are the bugs I found in AME CC 2014:

1) Timecode effect overlay freezes after 12 hours! Supposed to run for 24 hours!
2) XMP errors for 12 hour files (or maybe even less). I believe the metadata gets saturated and xmp has problems on such a long file.Probably a limitation of XMP execution inside AME.
3) Target and Max bitrate – the file is actually encoded at MAX bitrate value and ignores the target field. Target is supposed to be an average bitrate for the video stream and yet the average bitrate ends up being the max value at max render settings. I haven’t checked this issues at non-max render settings.
4) Sorenson Squeeze presets from Premiere ignore the in/out encoding locations and encode the specified length from the beginning of the file regardless of the in/out setting in AME.

These things should work for the full 24-hour encoding.

I have only one question left at this point: How the hell adobe tests their software and who does it hire to write their code?????

Pathetic!

[Alex Golo]

Thank you, but is there a wat to extended timecode past 12 hours?

For example when timecode reaches 12-hour mark wwhen added adobe media encoder it just stops counting. The timecode limit seems to be 12 hours while premiere timeline is 24-hour limited….

Any ideas?