When you encode a clip with Adobe Media Encoder you can add image processing and effects like timecode burn in.
Let me show you how that works.
I'm going to add some footage and apply to Vimeo Preset to it because I want the client to see this footage.
If I click on the presets, you'll see that this image looks rather dull and it's because this was shot with an S-Log profile meaning there is a lot of detail in the blacks and there's a lot of detail in the whites, but the curve is not linear.
So, it's an S-Log and to show that to the client you actually need a LUT to correct it.
I created one in Speedgrade and I'm going to apply that now to this shot inside Media Encoder. to do that, you go to the Effects and in the Effects, we have four options and the top one is the Lumetri Look / LUT option.
So, if I check this one, I can now apply one of the Lumetri Looks that ship with Premiere Pro, but also with Media Encoder.
These are creative looks.
In my case I need a technical LUT to correct the S-Log profile.
So, I'm going to choose Select...
I'm going to browse to the place where I saved this .look file in this case and I'll open it.
And you'll see that there is a big difference between a dull S-Log file and a corrected file using the LUT.
Next, the Image Overlay or some people call the watermark.
So, I'll check the Image Overlay and go to Choose... and my Creative Cloud folder I put a logo in here and that's one I'll choose.
This is a bit big, so let's make it smaller and let's put it in the left corner.
Put it a bit more in the corner, so I'll put -150 here, so it goes a bit more to the left. and maybe lower the Opacity a bit, so it's less obvious.
The next thing I want to put in is a Name Overlay.
I want the client to know which clip he's looking at because if I'm putting this on Vimeo it's nice to have a name burned in and not rely on the name the video platform gave to it.
The source name is there.
I'm going to add a Prefix which is in this case the Hand-held because this was the hand-held camera. and I'm going to put this one right at the bottom as center.
I am going to send it a bit more down even, so something like this.
And last but not least I want Timecode because if the client says I like this part, I want him to give me the timecode that is burned into the image.
In this case it's using the Media File timecode, so it's actually using the timecode that comes with the file - not the Bottom Center, but the Bottom Right in this case and also, I'm going to push this one a bit more down something like this.
So, if I'm now happy with all these effects that I applied, so I applied a LUT, I applied the watermarking, I applied a Name and Timecode, I can save this now as a preset, which I can then later use if I have more clips that need the same preset.
Next, up here I can click on the Save Preset and I'll call this Vimeo 1080p +LUT+icon+name+TC.
In this way I'll recognize the preset later.
Click OK.
And you see that the preset is now applied to my User Presets & Groups and it's also applied to the clip itself.
If I now add more clips to my queue, I'll go to the Day4 recordings and select a few more, maybe these and this one I already have and add them all to the queue.
You'll see that they are now getting the same preset because by default Media Encoder applies the last used presets to the clips.
So, that's good.
Let me just show you that it actually is working.
So, I'll pick one and I'll browse to shot this a bit closer.
And if I turn on and off the LUT, you'll see the big difference.
And also, the icon is there, it's a bit hard to see but it's definitively there.
So, the preset is working, and we can now let Media Encoder do the crunching and export these files with timecodes and the LUTs applied to it.
