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Agh, it's so close! I can see you took the time to work on the YouTube UI, and I appreciate it The UI works fine (amusing, sometimes the built-in ones don't, but switching to a Voukoder preset fixes it), however, sending it to "Media Encoder" or just directly "Exporting" it causes...nothing. The preview UI goes blank, and it just kind of sits there. Toggling to another preset and back fixes to UI again, but it's the same behavior. I've tested this with exporting just as a Media file, and that works perfectly, either direct or queued.

Mmm, probably, but I'd really like to stay in my workflow. I may go back to the "old" software, but don't worry, I'm not going to ask for a refund or anything Gotta pay the rent.

Oh. That's...pretty rough, as it's essential to my workflow. Is this a thing that can be modified?

Well, here's another fun one. When the "YouTube" destination of the Export tab is set to use a Voukoder Pro preset, the UI in the Export panel gets all screwy, as seen in the attachment. I just toggled between two presets, and you can see what happens. Very odd. Trying to use the "Send to Media Encoder" or "Export" buttons doesn't do anything. Everything renders out perfectly fine in the "Media File" destination, but one of the reasons I pay for Premiere is for huge Media Encoder queues.

I'm not sure what kind of diagnostics you'd like? I'm not getting any errors, because it's not even making it to the moving parts, as far as I can tell. I've attached the scene (with an extra .txt extension), which is pretty simple, and the encoder profile in Premiere is basically the same.

[ed: one of these days I'm going to create a thread that's not about bugs & problems...]

...aaaand it stopped working already. That was quick, even for Adobe.

ed: ...aaaand it started working again, after the standard reboot. Look, I've been using flaky software since DOS TSR's were a good idea, and I have never found anything as fragile as Premiere/Media Encoder. And it costs infinity dollars!

Aha! It lives! Whatever you changed made it suddenly produce correct files! I did note that Premiere was previously adamant that my input FPS was 29.97 (instead of 60); once I'd finished screwing around, it identifies the actual timecode! (easiest to see in the preset settings, in the "Summary" window.) Thanks again for your help and work!

[For future web searches] If anyone's curious, these are the settings I use. Bear in mind, this is for recorded gameplay -> YouTube. For the items in the Designer, the text in curly braces {} is what you should see in the bottom window:

Designer
Video Input: All tracks
Video Encoder: LIBX264, CRF 18, G 30, Bf 2
{
 "rc": 0,
 "crf": 18,
 "g": 30,
 "bf": 2
}

Audio Input: All tracks
Audio Encoder: AAC (General), CBR 320 kbps/s, Low-complexity, Cutoff 17000 Hz
{
 "rc": "cbr",
 "b": 320000,
 "profile": "aac_low",
 "cutoff": 17000
}

Muxer: MP4
Movflags: Faststart: True [often called 'moov']
{
 "movflags": 64
}

Output: File
Your preference may vary.

Premiere's presets are always a land of mystery and terror. In this case, best to pick a preset that already does x264, copy, and modify. That said, it's basically "Match Source" and the correct Scene.

Sorry, not ghosting, I just haven't been able to get to my computer yet! The Voukoder Pro log said I should go buy a license, so I did I'll catch up when I can!

I've been beating my head against this wall for a couple hours now, so I'm just tossing this out for you First pictures, then error logs.

So, I uninstalled the deprecated program & connector for Adobe Media Encoder, and installed v2.0.2 of the Pro version. The designer is really neat, by the way So. Here's my pain. This is Adobe Premiere/Media Encoder v25.1 (the most recent as of this post), computer is Windows 10 and gets along with Adobe suspiciously well.

Virtually everything I do is YouTube uploads, hence some of the options (or I was too tired to click my mouse again). As you can see in the "Designer" file, I'm running video through libx264, audio through AAC, muxing them to MP4, then tossing it in the output folder.
You can see the options listed in the "Video" file, encoding via LIBX264, basically stock. Generally I'd mess with it more, but I wanted to just do the bare minimum of changes. "Audio" is just straight-up AAC, CBR 320, low complexity. The MP4 output has the faststart flag set.

And now the horror that is Adobe presets. I tried to capture most of it in the "Fill size preset" image (Premiere is being a bitch and adding "_1" to the end of all my presets). This is just showing that I'm not doing anything weird except that I forgot to set the framerate to 60 for the screenshot. The "Smaller preset" image is the Voukoder Pro tab, I just left the color options alone.

And now, on to logs. Or rather, not much, because Adobe gives me fuck-all for feedback. The first time I was playing with it, I was getting:

Zitat

Export Error

Error compiling movie.

Export Error

Exporter returned bad result.

Writing with exporter: Voukoder Pro

Writing to file: C:\LP\Completed\Alan Wake 2 Ep 4_1.mp4

Around timecode: 00:02:19:23

Component: Voukoder Pro of type Exporter

Selector: 9

Exit code: 20

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(I think the selector was the same number). The most helpful info suggested that "Exit Code 20 comes when he required files are missing in the installer", but I don't believe that. Reinstalled anyway, just in case, and now all I get is:

Zitat

Export Error
Error compiling movie.

Export Error

Exporter returned bad result.

Writing with exporter: Voukoder Pro
Writing to file: C:\LP\Completed\Alan Wake 2 Ep 4_1.mp4
Around timecode: 00:02:19:23
Component: Voukoder Pro of type Exporter
Selector: 9
Error code: -2147287026

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This is just as helpful as you might expect.

I need to go fix my back and get some work done, hopefully this is something fairly easy!

What's the implication of the _mf suffix for h264 and hevc? Google is being surprisingly useless.