Create user presets
Learn how to customize and fine-tune presets to save time when encoding video files.
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Using presets is a big time safer and it's great that you can use presets, but it's even better that you can customize them and then save those customized presets for later use.
Let me show you an example.
Here I have a clip and I want to create the output presets for an iPad.
The easiest thing to do when creating a custom preset is to find a preset that comes very close and then customize it from there.
In this case I'll choose the iPad preset that comes close enough and then I'll click on the preset name and it will open the Export Settings dialog.
The Export Settings dialog has the image to the left and you can actually browse and audition the clip, right here. and up here you see the Export Settings.
So, here are the formats and down here are the presets.
So, right now I'm using this iPad preset and I'm going to change that a bit.
Down here are the various tabs that allow customization.
I'm going to the Video tab, I'm going to click the Match Source option, and this will now check all these settings to match the source.
And in this case, this is almost perfect.
The only ones that I don't want to match the source are the Field Order I never want fields on an iPad and I never want anything, but Square Pixels on an iPad, so I uncheck those forcing Media Encoder to always create a progressive square pixel movie.
In the Audio section everything is fine because I started with a preset that actually had everything that I needed.
So, actually I'm ready now and I can save this preset by clicking on this button up here.
Media Encoder will now ask me to give it a name.
Since the name comes from the preset that I started with, I don't need to type a lot, I just need to remove all this stuff and add in this case Match Source to it And I can close the Export Settings dialog by hitting OK here as well.
You see that now in the User Presets & Groups here in the Preset Browser this preset is now added and obviously it has been added to the clip.
Now let's add another clip.
Let's use this one.
And this time I want to create a QuickTime preset.
So, I'll go to the QuickTime format and I'll choose a preset that comes close.
In this case these HD 720p 24, H264, AAC 48 kHz, which is pretty fine.
And again, I'll click on the preset name and it will open the Export Settings.
There are only two things I want to change for this preset.
One is that I don't want the Frame Rate to always be 24 I want it to adapt to match the source.
So, I'll only check that one.
And also, as you can see this is SD footage.
There are little black lines on top and bottom and I want it to Scale To Fill.
So, if the footage is too small or too wide for the output, it will scale the footage, so that it fits, and you don't have any black bars.
I'm pretty happy now, I don't want to change anything with the audio.
I'll click Save Preset again and again I'll remove the Copy of name, and I'll remove the 24 because now it's actually match frame. - Match Frame Rate.
And the audio is still fine, so I'll hit OK.
And now that one is also added to the User Presets & Groups and I can use it later when I need this preset again.
