Manage and share presets
Learn how to create preset groups and aliases to keep track of the many presets available, as well as sharing presets with others.
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Adobe Media Encoder offers a wide variety of presets in the Preset Browser.
To keep an overview of your customized presets and of the presets you frequently use, you can create your own preset groups and aliases.
Furthermore, you can share presets with others by importing and exporting them.
Let me show you how you can manage the Preset Browser.
The Preset Browser is divided in two sections.
The User Presets & Groups and the System Presets.
The System Presets are all the presets created by Adobe and we cannot change or alter them.
User Presets & Groups is where our custom presets are stored.
To organize my presets, I can create groups.
Groups are like folders on your hard drive.
I can add a group by clicking on this folder icon up here and I can give it a name.
Then I can drag presets in there to store them.
I can also make groups inside groups for more advanced organization.
Inside the User Presets & Groups I can also store aliases.
Aliases are virtual copies of presets either from the System Presets or from the custom ones.
To create an alias just drag one of the existing System Presets in your User Presets & Groups and the alias is already created.
Another way to create an alias is to right click on a preset and select Create Alias.
It is good practice to store common presets in one folder.
If you would like an alias of a custom preset inside another group, you can do that as well.
Another feature of the Preset Browser is to share presets with others.
If I want to share this preset, I can right click on it and click the Export Presets... option or I can use this Export Presets button.
I now browse to my Creative Cloud Files folder for instance and store it in my AME Presets folder.
The extension for a preset is .epr for encoder preset.
As you can see it's now stored in my Creative Cloud Files folder and I can share it via the Creative Cloud, or I can email it using a regular email program.
The files are not that big.
To import the preset you can use the Import Preset button and browse to the preset you want to import.
But actually, you can skip that step because you can drag presets into the desired group directly from the Finder or Explorer.
