Adobe Media Encoder

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Adobe Media Encoder is software for loading, transcoding, and exporting audio and video content in a variety of supported formats. This includes content that can be derived from your productions generated in other applications in the Adobe Creative Cloud Suite (see our Adobe Creative Cloud suite article for more information).

Media Encoder can be used standalone, allowing you to transcode audio and video files, for example, so that you can open them in your existing audio and video playback applications, or to render a production into an imposed format. But Adobe Media Encoder also integrates with software in the Adobe Creative Cloud Suite, including Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects, and Adobe Audition. Once your projects are finalized, you can export them to Media Encoder to make the content compatible with the delivery devices for which they are intended.

So how does Media Encoder work ? As we’ve seen, the software allows you to import a media file or integrate it directly through an export from another application in the Adobe Creative Cloud Suite. Once you’ve chosen your content to transcode, all you have to do is transfer it to what’s called the queue. Then all you have to do is choose a format to which you want to export it. At this stage, Media Encoder allows you to choose a specific export configuration consisting mainly of a file format, a resolution or a frame rate. But you can also make changes to the predefined formats that are offered to you in order to find the right compromise, usually between the size of the output file and the quality of the rendering. Finally, you can choose the destination folder for your output files and then start encoding.

Since these tasks can be relatively long depending on the quality and duration of your input videos, Media Encoder allows you to let it run autonomously on several successive tasks using the queue. It gives you the possibility to add several contents to be transcoded even in different output formats. This way, once all your tasks have been scheduled, you can devote yourself to something else. Media Encoder will work alone for you.

To help you get started with the software, a series of tutorials are available on the Adobe website for beginners and advanced users alike, giving you all the information you need to master the intricacies and features of the software.

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