3 Replies Latest reply: May 13, 2014 4:41 PM by Jay Singh RSS

    Can't Edit While Encoding With Media Encoder

    CoachNick Community Member

      Does anyone else get this happening to them:

       

      When I begin the encoding process with Media Encoder, then go back to editing in Premiere Pro CC, EVERY time I hit the space bar to play a clip, Media Encoder Pauses its Encoding. Then when I stop playing the clip in Premiere Pro, Encoder begins encoding again. I'm fairly positive that Adobe touts that you can be encoding and editing at the same  time, but I can't believe that this is happening. Anyone else?

       

      Also, Encoder refuses to use my destination folder preference, instead targeting a folder I had used long ago and I have to manually target for every encode, every day.

       

      THANKS!!!

        • 1. Re: Can't Edit While Encoding With Media Encoder
          R Neil Haugen Community Member

          Encoding is a real CPU/disc hog ... heh, it's an intensive process. Trying to both encode and playback in real-time ... um ... if you've got a rig with say four CPU's with 128GB RAM, two really hot v-cards that the Adobe program actually love to play with, and all programs/cache/footage/outputs on RAIDed SSD internal drives, you can maybe do both at the same time.

           

          Think about what playback is doing ... it's not just playing the video off the disc ... not hardly. It's taking bits of video from this spot on the disk, skipping to this section of another video file there, to that one here ... and while doing that it's also immediately "reading" whatever changes you've made in editing, whether sound, size changes, color/grading, masks, EVERYTHING ... and applying that to the video it's grabbing of a disc somewhere AS it is playing it. Using a ton of CPU, disc read/write throughput, and probably a chunk of the v-card's GPU & vRAM. What's left for AME to use?

           

          I've seen a lot of complaints around here as to why editing playback isn't smooth ... hey, in VLC, play that file, it plays back easy, what the * is PrPro doing?

           

          Um ... VLC is playing the "straight" file, PrPro is playing back the file with all the other stuff added to it ... which isn't yet added to the file in reality, it's only instructions as to what to do to the file. So ... PrPro is essentially doing much the same work as when AME renders to an output simply to play the file in the program monitor.

          • 2. Re: Can't Edit While Encoding With Media Encoder
            CoachNick Community Member

            Thanks for the reply, Neil!

            Maybe I didn't explain perfectly what the issue was.


            First off, I've got a 3.2 GHz Quad Core with 32 GB of RAM, so I should be able to do some editing while also encoding with Media Encoder to a YouTube file.

             

            What's happening, though, is that somehow, the space bar is being shared with both programs. I refuse to believe this is the intended behavior by Adobe, that the encoding will pause while I'm hitting the space bar in Premiere Pro.

             

            So this isn't about stuttered playback, it's about the Media Encoder improbably toggling its encoding process while I'm using another app.

            Make sense?

            • 3. Re: Can't Edit While Encoding With Media Encoder
              Jay Singh

              Its normal. AME is encoding in the background, it will need to pause itself every time you try try to preview something in Premiere. The two programmes are linked together by Adobe Dynamic Link Manager. Its fully intended.