[Craig Rogers]

This doesn’t happen “some times” it happens every time. Unless I “dumb” down to only using 5 cores it’ll get all 16 cores blasting away at 100% and get stuck. Even after I force AE closed, I have to manually go in and end each an every process. What’s the point of having 16 cores and 32GB of RAM if I can’t use it? Thinking the problem may be slow hard drives, I’ve tried rendering to SSD and that didn’t solve any problems.

I can’t verify it yet, but these CS6 bugs seem to foul up my windows os as well. Everything was running great, I had AE and AME act up and then EVERYTHING started freezing up randomly. Windows boot time now takes upwards of 10 minutes.

After the first time, I did a fresh install of my OS and CS6 and the same thing is happening again. I’m ready to pull my hair out – and I can’t afford that! I’ve got work to do!

I’m very nearly ready to do another fresh OS install and trash CS6 and just go back to using CS5.5. What a waste of time and money CS6 has been.

Win7 Ultimate 64bit – SP1
dual E5-2650
32GB RAM
GTX 690

If ANYONE has any suggestions, I’m all ears.

[Craig Rogers]

This keeps getting crazier. I think AME CS6 is whacked.

There’s a certain point in my tif sequence that every output I do with AME it freeze frames that point. I’ve checked my tif sequence and it does NOT freeze frame. I’ve rendered a quicktime directly out of AE without an issue. All of this weirdness is only happening when I try to use Media Encoder.

As far as I can tell CS6 Media Encoder simply will not output an mp4 file. I just selected a YouTube preset and once again everything indicates that it will render out an mp4, but it always renders an m4v file.

Add this to the weirdness I’ve been having with CS6 AE and I’d say CS6 has been a colossal disaster.

Any idea how to work around these bugs and get proper videos output from Media Encoder?

[Craig Rogers]

My results:

dual E5-2650
32GB RAM
GTX 690

4m 33sec

[Craig Rogers]

Very odd. I created an image file of the dvd project on my local drive. That took less than a minute. Now I’m burning that image to DVD…1 hour 15 minutes projected.

blu-ray from iso = 5 minutes
dvd from iso = 75 minutes

If anyone has any ideas let me know. Thankfully I don’t need to burn dvd’s very often!

I have a LG burner which is rated at 16x for DVD and 12x for Blu-Ray burning. Go figure.

[Craig Rogers]

First dvd just finished. 1.5 hours+. Threw it in the dvd player and it’s fine. Weird.

Now blu-ray…

Wrote image to disc first. That went smoothly. Only took about 5 minutes to write blu-ray image to disc.

So far burning a blu-ray from iso is telling me it’ll be about 5 minutes. Fingers crossed this works. 🙂

I’ll try writing a DVD image and burning from that next.

[Craig Rogers]

I prepped files with media encoder, there’s no transcoding going on. This is all burn time.