Adobe has posted a blog about the new Adobe Media Encoder.
Sounds exciting, especially the enhanced after effects rendering. And it is already so fast. I just hope it does better interlacing and frame rate conversion. I have had to go back to compressor for certain things, but it is SO SLOW!!!!
So I am delivering a show that was cut in Final Cut Pro, that was cut in 23.976, but needs to be delivered at 29.97, so I was using Adobe Media Encoder to do the conversion, but found I could only do it if I want either a single stereo audio track or a single mono mix-down.
I don’t have the ability to compress a version with dual or more mono tracks (or a stereo and dual mono).
Often I have to deliver shows with a stereo mix, and dual monos one with dialogue, and the other with music and FX, but I can’t do that with Adobe Media Encoder, so I have had to go back to the super slow Apple Compressor to do my compressions.
Not only could Media Encoder us a pass through, so if you have a clip with 4 audio tracks uncompressed, then just re-write it in the new file exactly as it was, but it also needs to at least be able to separate dual mono tracks so you can at least do stems on the textless version.
The other is that Premiere Pro really needs to be able to paste individual attributes of a clip, just like Final Cut Pro 7. Just being able to paste all attributes is less than useless in most cases!
I just brought all of my reels into Premiere Pro from Final Cut Pro 7 because I wanted to use Adobe Encore to make a new DVD and somehow all my clips had there volume put to negative infinite, so I have had to individually raise the volume one each clip, which was an incredible pain.
And yes I have put in Feature requests at Adobe, but I have been putting in the individual attributes since CS 5.0, so I am not holding my breath.
Adobe has released new presets for Adobe Media Encoder CS6. These include ProRES codes for Mac, Kindle Fire and Nook presets as well as MXF encoding Presets.
Nice, I always make my own ProRes Presets, but this could be helpful.
Adobe Blogs has the news on this one.
Adobe has releases a set of Tablet settings for the Amazon Kindle Fire, Barnes & Noble Nook, iPad 1 and 2 and Android Tablets as well as XDCAM EX and AVC-Intra in MXF wrappers for Windows and for Mac.
And for Mac OS only they have released a set of ProRes 422 Encoding Presets.
Basically you download them and exract them, then open Adobe Media Encoder CS6 and chose Preset > Import and import the presets.
This is great, and these should have come with the program, and they need to make presets for the New iPad as well!
I got in video encoding years back, before I became a professional editor, when I was working at Warner Bros. Online, and have always kept up with it, though for a long time I have used Compressor as my program of choice, mainly because I already had it and it worked really well.
After using Adobe Media Encoder I wonder how I stayed with Compressor so long. Media Encoder has one feature that makes it so much better than any other media encoder out there. To encode a sequence from either Premiere Pro or After Effects, you just open the Project and select the sequences you want in Media Encoder, no exporting a quicktime or giving up your program to edit. You can let Media Encoder do it from the Project! THIS IS HUGE! How did I ever live without out? I have no idea, but I won’t in the future!
THANK YOU ADOBE!!