[Jerry Riojas]

@Tim Kolb

With changing the path…. that is what I was talking about in my other reply when I said I went thru all the settings trying to figure out where I could do that. In the Media encoder, the path is is grayed out and can’t be changed…

But yes, I also like the fact that the media encoder is it’s seprate app now, I just wish it would work.

@mike velte

That is the exact forum post at adobe I was referring to in my initial reply. I also stated that I tried that 3 times already, make that 5 now, haha. And every time I unistall, I run the CS4 Clean Script that is available at Adobe. But it still doesn’t help. This error took my entire weekend away from me. Unistalls took roughly 40 mins and installations were 45-50 mins. And it isn’t my machine being slow…. I have a AMD Quadcore 9550 and 6GB Dual Channel RAM, CS4 is just so beastly…

[Jerry Riojas]

@mike velte

Well, I am having the same problems. You asked why his project files were in temp folder?, well, In CS4 when you go to export and want to render your file, they took Adobe Media Encoder out of premiere and made it a seperate application. Now when you go to export your movie, it automatically transfers the job to Adobe Media Encoder, and this is where the problem is….

When the job opens in Media Encoder…. the path already says “temp” folder. My projects actually are in the “Documents/Adobe/Premiere Pro/4.0/” folder. Why does it put the path as the temp folder? I don’t know and have been thru every setting in Premiere and Media Encoder…. I read on the Adobe forums, that there is a known issue if you had CS3 installed before and un-installed CS3(and that it is a win-only problem). It said to un-install and re-install CS4, but that hasn’t worked for me. I tried that 3 times. I am at the point of reverting back to CS3.