Flashcomguru.com: New Features in Adobe Media Encoder

Posted At : September 23, 2008 9:03 AM | Posted By : Stefan Richter | Related Categories: Press Releases , Tools

Today - as you probably know - is CS4 day. As part of the CS4 suite, Flash also got an update and with it ships the new Adobe Media Encoder (with Flash CS4 Professional that is). Not only has the encoder changed its name slightly, it has also seen a feature update and got new UI that is now more in line with the CS4 interface (click for screenshot).
In fact it is the same tool found in other Adobe professional video products such as Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 software and After Effects CS4 -- and it now supports H.264 encoding, and includes support for batch processing and also adds two-pass, variable bit-rate encoding. This is certainly a step up and brings it very close, if not on par, with dedicated and professional encoding tools. Or put it this way, Adobe Media Encoder will suffice most standard encoding tasks for web based video. Nice one.

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Haven't seen it yet but really hope the encoder supports more than 1 processor on my 8 core, though we nearly don't use .flv anymore. And we use Episode for most all the encoding nowadays.

# Posted By Tino Klumpen | 9/23/08 11:28 AM

Any idea where I can download the new edition?
On Adobe.com, it still seems to be the old version....

Concerning 2pass-encoding: is this feature available for live encodings?

# Posted By thomas e. | 9/23/08 6:37 PM

thomas, the CS4 software has not shipped yet AFAIK. Live 2-pass? Not with this tool since it's a file encoder, and presumably not with the next version of Adobe's live encoder either. Live 2 pass is probably reserved for the likes of Kulabyte, and even then you need a mighty beefy machine

# Posted By Stefan Richter | 9/23/08 7:14 PM

Hi Stefan, my mistake, I didn't read carefully and thought you are talking about the live Flash Media Encoder FME....

We are still looking for a decent (= 25fps, PAL, NO drop frame) live encoding solutions... anything new on your end?
What do you think about the Digital Rapids encoder software? We are currently testing it....

Cheers

thomas

# Posted By thomas e. | 9/23/08 7:42 PM

Hi Thomas, we also are testing Digital Rapids. So far so good, I'm impressed. On the IBC I saw a lot of hardware live encoders.

# Posted By Tino Klumpen | 9/24/08 8:09 PM

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