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Video Effects Manager in Media Encoder

Quickly identify, troubleshoot, and disable incompatible plugins to improve system stability so you can get back to work faster.

Adobe Media Encoder has multiple effects, providing additional visual effects, tools, and workflows to enhance video production. There are times when these effects could cause the application to crash. 

With Effect Manager, when restarting Media Encoder after a crash, you get a notification explaining what effect may have crashed during the last session. You also get an option to either keep the identified effect enabled or disable it in the next startup. 

View list of installed effects

Select EffectVideo Effect Manager to view a list of all your installed effects with an option to enable or disable any effects on the next startup.

The Effect Manager dialog lists effect details:

  • Enabled status
  • Effect name
  • Category
  • File Path 
The Export mode UI shows custom destinations like 4K HDR and 720p draft quality.
For clips, presets assigned to custom destinations are shared across all clips.

Disable effects after a Media Encoder crash

With Video Effects Manager, while restarting Media Encoder after a crash, you'll get a notification explaining what effect may have crashed during the last session.

You also get an option to either keep the identified effect or enable or disable it in the next startup.

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