Alongside last week’s updates of After Effects and Premiere Pro came a new version of Adobe Media Encoder, 2015.2. You can find this release in the Creative Cloud desktop application.
Encode and export video and audio with Media Encoder. IMX is MPEG-2. DNxHR/DNxHD MXF OP1a. (ISO/IEC 13818) format and the Wikipedia website. Adobe Creative Suite 6 Production Premium is an edition of the Adobe Creative Suite 6 family of products intended for professional rich media and video post-production experts who create projects for film, video, broadcast, web, DVD, Blu-ray Disc, and mobile devices.
This release addressed several issues, details of which appear below:
- The application could crash on shut down when used on a system with an AMD Phenom II processor.
- J2K exports with an odd-numbered frame width could fail.
- Issues were encountered when directly importing After Effects compositions.
- The Generate Timecode effect could incorrectly change the start timecode after the frame rate was changed.
- XDCAM 35 exports could fail when smart rendering was enabled.
- Encoding could fail when importing projects containing the ‘/’ or ‘’ symbols in their name.
- Exporting to H265 media less than 64 pixels across could cause a Debug event.
- The installation wording for HEVC and Dolby was not clear.
- Incorrect audio could be inserted in areas of a sequence where audio was not present.
- Smart rendering could cause unexpected results.
- Corrupt frames could occur in exports to MXF HDCAM 422 when using smart rendering.
- Some Panasonic 50i/60i media imported with incorrect frame rates.
- H265 exports sometimes encoded incorrect duration and frame rates
- Older AMD systems (e.g. Athlon) could not utilize QuickTime.
- 4K projects featuring synthetics or Gaussian Blur could fail to encode, and subsequently cause crashes.
- Setting the Start Timecode could give unexpected results.
- Videos that were created by Skype Video Recorder were importing out of sync in some cases.
Today, the Adobe Media Encoder CS6 (6.0.1) update was released.
If Adobe Application Manager hasn’t already told you about this, go ahead and check for new updates by choosing Help > Updates. The best way to check for updates is by closing all Adobe applications other than Adobe Bridge, and choosing Help > Updates in Adobe Bridge; this ensures that all processes related to Adobe video applications have been quit and can be updated safely.
Ideally, you should install the updates automatically by choosing Help > Updates, but you can also directly download the update packages from the download page for Mac OS or Windows by choosing the “Adobe Media Encoder CS6.0.1” update for your operating system.
For information about updates for other Adobe professional video applications, see this page.
If you have difficulty with this update, please bring questions and issues to the Adobe Media Encoder forum. Don’t ask questions in the comments on this blog post, which fewer people will see.
features added or changed in this update
- Added encoding presets with additional bit-rate settings for XDCAM HD.
- Enabled “smart rendering” and added a setting to the Video tab of the MXF OP1a exporters to enable or disable smart rendering for these formats.Full use of this feature also requires the Premiere Pro CS6 (6.0.1) update.
- Some encoding presets and codecs (MPEG-2, Dolby AC3) were missing from Adobe Media Encoder if activated using a yearly Creative Cloud Membership subscription license.
- Canon 5D Mark III files were imported and interpreted using the Rec. 601 color space instead of the correct Rec. 709 color space.
- NTSC MXF OP1a files that were exported with drop-frame timecode had video data that tagged as non-drop-frame.
- In some cases, 23.976fps H.264 output had incorrect video duration, causing audio and video to be out of synch.
- Colors shifted in some H.264 and MPEG-2 output.
- Exporting a WMV file failed in some cases, and in some cases caused audio and video to be out of synch.
- Some multiplexed H.264 Blu-Ray files caused faulty Blu-Ray Discs in Encore.
- Import of some files caused the application to hang or took an extremely long time to complete.
- Some QuickTime files were imported with the wrong field order.
- Some additional causes of crashes were fixed.
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