Export to Media Encoder and continue working?

[TeamLouie]

This may be a dumb question, but I'm wondering if I can go back and change a thing on a timeline that I'm currently rendering on Adobe Media Encoder without it affecting the render? I'm working with a template right now, a 5 hour render, and I need to adjust the timeline to accommodate an upcoming render based on the same template. If I change something on the timeline, will that affect what I'm currently exporting or is that safe from any changes?

[tony]

I think Media Encoder uploads the entire project into the engine and renders it from there. So basically takes the project duplicates it and renders it so that you can continue to work on it, however the timeline is NOT updates in real time. So you would need to restart the render again.