Prerequisites¶
Conform needs nothing installed beyond your Adobe subscription.
| Requirement | Needed for | Included with |
|---|---|---|
| Adobe Premiere Pro 25.6 or newer | Everything | Your Creative Cloud subscription |
| Adobe Media Encoder | Rendering clips (optional) | Your Creative Cloud subscription |
If you leave Queue needed clips in Adobe Media Encoder off, Conform flattens, builds the conform sequence, and publishes the FCP XML without touching AME at all.
No third-party tools
Earlier versions of Conform required FFmpeg and REDCINE-X PRO (REDline) to be installed and their binary paths configured. Those export engines have been removed. You no longer need to install either one, and there is no binary path setting in Scrub. Any previously configured paths are simply unused.
Adobe Media Encoder¶
AME ships with Creative Cloud alongside Premiere Pro, but it is a separate application and may not be installed. If it is missing, Conform reports "Adobe Media Encoder is not installed" when a run tries to queue clips.
To install it: open the Creative Cloud desktop app, find Adobe Media Encoder, and click Install. Use the version that matches your Premiere Pro release.
You do not need to launch AME yourself — Premiere starts it when Scrub queues the first clip. Leave it running until it finishes; queued clips render in the background.
An export preset¶
Queueing also needs an .epr export preset, selected in the Conform settings modal. Premiere and AME ship with a large set of built-in presets, and any preset you have saved from AME's export dialog works too.
See Export & Rendering for how presets are discovered and which ones are suitable.
Output folder¶
Every run except Prepare Only writes to disk and therefore needs an output base folder, chosen with Browse in the settings modal. Scrub checks for it before the run starts rather than failing partway through.
Because Premiere's plugin sandbox grants folder access by permission, pick the folder through the Browse dialog — Scrub remembers it between sessions.